Blender 2.8 Viewport & Rendering Performance

We're testing a bunch of CPUs and GPUs in a recent Blender 2.80 beta build.

REFERENCES & TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Intro
0:55 Tested hardware
1:45 Workstation vs. Gaming GPUs
2:40 Eevee viewport performance
5:35 GPU Cycles and Eevee rendering performance
7:25 CPU Cycles rendering performance
9:10 CPU+GPU Cycles rendering performance
10:20 2.79 vs 2.80 performance

TESTED HARDWARE:
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Processors
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
Intel Core i9-9980XE
Intel Core i9-7980XE
Intel Core i9-7960X
Intel Core i9-7900X
Intel Core i9-9900K
Intel Core i7-8700K
Motherboards
AMD X399: MSI MEG CREATION
AMD X470: ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VII HERO Wi-Fi
Intel Z390: ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-E GAMING
Intel X299: ASUS ROG STRIX X299-E GAMING
Memory: G.SKILL Flare X (F4-3200C14-8GFX)
Graphics Card
AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
AMD Radeon RX 590
AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200
AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100
AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100
AMD Radeon Pro WX 4100
AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100
NVIDIA TITAN RTX
NVIDIA TITAN Xp
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000
NVIDIA Quadro P6000
NVIDIA Quadro P5000
NVIDIA Quadro P4000
NVIDIA Quadro P2000
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro build 17763 (1809)
Ubuntu 19.04
Drivers
AMD Radeon: Adrenaline 19.4.1
AMD Radeon Pro: Enterprise 19.Q1.2
NVIDIA GeForce & TITAN: Creative Ready 419.67
NVIDIA Quadro: Quadro 419.67

Fun fact: This video took 15 minutes to encode with Intel Core i9-7980XE + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080.

#Techgage #Blender #Rendering

[charliemcgrain]

I cannot even begin to tell you what Blender has become in my filmmaking life. I am currently knee deep in an animated movie. It is not easy, this shit is quite complex for me, I keep ending up with characters eyes in different scenes, but I am slowly getting the hang of it. But I am now, after downloading blender for the first time just 4 months ago, 5 minutes in to what will be a 7 minute proof of concept trailer and I am blown away at the world this has opened up for me. I have yet to see anyone from Blender even ask for a single dollar! If there is somewhere I should be donating please let me know. (I just noted there is a patreon account, cool, I'll send some support) Open source is going to completely change the way this world works. I am blown away by the efforts of everyone involved. Best wishes, Chaz.

[alymuni]

Thank you!
Hope you and GN will do another collaboration in the future.

[PatrickWithCamera]

Was searching for this last days, thanks for vid! Great review.

[whiteoscreen]

Dam your really a great man
To review GPU that supports
Blender 3d your channel really help

PM
Are you going to review the new ryzein 3000 cpu And RX5700 gpu
Performance on blender 3d

[SimonLachapelle]

Thanks for doing this ! Much appreciated !

[technojazz]

Would love to see a test like this focusing on viewport performance (FPS when playing back an animation in a relatively complex scene) on various cpus/gpus in Eevee.

[EladBarness]

Great video! I Believe the difference between 2.79 and 2.80 renders have to do with the color management, blender 2.79 is on default by default wheres b2.80 uses filimic with base contrast

[vxsniffer]

Ryzen 5 3600X + RTX 2070 Super @ BMW scene (Cycles, 35 samples, 512x512 tiles):
CUDA (GPU) - 00:52.69
CUDA (GPU + CPU) - 15:27.09 (tiles too big to use CPU)
CUDA (GPU + CPU) - 00:48.39 (smaller tiles 32x32)
OptiX (GPU) - 00:29.03 - LOVE THIS!!!

[adriangabrielgramada]

Nice presentation and plenty of details in clear and ear friendly english & tone ;) keep up the good job ;) I have just one tinsy question: what is the best kind of configuration for a workstation that I need to build at some point for extremely heavy detail viewports + real time rendering & presentations on gpu / cpu (hybrid if efficient, gpu only if not) for BLENDER + UNREAL + various add-ons / tools COMBO (example: does Blender's viewport starve on core speed or number of cores ?) Thank-you !

[ChozoSR]

Really great video! I'm just starting out, so the 2.79 bits don't really apply to me, but I do know I'm in the market for an upgrade in the future, if I want to get serious with Blender; I'm working on an AM3+ machine I built back in 2014. Works well enough, does what I need for the moment, but she's showing her age. FX-8350 and an RX 560 4GB on a Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 (Rev 5).

[jackyc]

Great vid ! Thanks for the info, I was browsing the web for my new Laptop-Workstation.
Normally I use Sketchup Pro 2017

Thinking of MSI PS65.

[johndc]

Hello. Does GPU make 3d modelling workflows like simulations and rigging faster? Or does it only speed up rendering?

[ukaszs.]

Hi, found this vid, becouse I'm looking for a new PC for Blender 3d modelling up to 10k polygons, with time to time rendering. I wonder if i9-11900k would be a good idea WITHOUT any dedicated GPU.
Or is it better to get mediocore CPU like Ryzen 5 3600 and mediocore GPU like 1650/1660 for this? It would fit in similar price at this moment (gpu prices are insane)
What could be your view on this?

[djuansayjones]

Great Video Sir!!! Just what I was looking for!!! Quick Did you use the same CPU on all the Viewpoint Test? And if so what CPU was it? Does The CPU not that Much in Viewpoint and that's why you didn't show it? Thanks again for the Great Video!!!

[JohnSmith-rnvl]

Driver version also matters.... I upgraded my Nvidia drivers recently and every time I do that I do a few blender benchmarks with the classroom and bmw scene and I noticed I had a 15% drop in speed. So take note of your Nvidia drivers in your next review please :D . I would also be interested in some new data now that 2.8 has been released to see what you come up with and in particular what multi GPU rendering is like in Blender. I am waiting for a new RTX 2070 super to arrive and will be testing whether or not Blender can pick up 3 x GPU on a MSI z97 ... fingers crossed it will pick up all 3 GPU's as that would be a massive speed increase !

[DigitalDave]

would you recommend an rtx 2060 or the 5700 for 3d? given the support for nvidia with gpu renderers like octane etc. But 5700 is more powerful? any advice greatly appreciated

[ravkenvega]

So the more cores/threads the better for render will be? I was debating between RYZEN 7 3800X vs I7 9700X, but after I watch this video it looks like RYZEN 3800X will do better in blender. Does anyone else agree on this?

[dissonanceparadiddle]

Would love an update now that 2.83 is out

[marllonbruno]

Thank you so much for the tests. Can I use Blender without a good gpu? I'm planning to buy a Ryzen 9 3900x with 32 gigabytes of ram instead of an RX 5700 because I'm too afraid to run out of vram. Will I feel too much the missed video card in the blender viewport? Can I do sculpt and simulations without a good video card? Thank you so much!

[venkateshlutukurthi]

Rtx 2080 super or NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 ?