3d render bench for 2.8 paxville(2) vs dual core opteron(2)

[MagusDarkFlame]

I'm looking to upgrade my render server with in the next few months.
To date i have seen little benchmarks or comparisons of the xeon paxvile to other chips relating to 3d rendering and leading a batch render.

I currently have a dual xeon 3.2 2mb cache 533fsb not sure about the core.
x5dae mobo, 10 gb ddr/266 ecc ram
4x barracuda array raid 5

I use this machine to set up bucket/lan renders, for video editing and authoring, photoshop, 3ds max & maya. Render engines brazil and mental ray.

Video/3d rendering are the most cp intensive tasks preformed on this machine. (all though i feel i have enough comps so i never really made a dedicated gaming machine...)

I would really love to see some comparisons using brazil, mental ray (standalone), premiere/after affects. If possible some measure using about a 4+ computer set up for distributed rendering render times.
-Simple animation maybe out to flash just massive amounts of frames.
-Something more complicated possibly with hdri or other intensive effects.
It would be important to see performance over time.(which is hard for me to gain form a less than 4 hour render time)

But i'll take anything people toss out there ^_^

 

[Rustol3um]

while you may know how to do all this........don't know if there is anyone who has that kind of computer set-up to test what you want....and if there is I bow down to you as I am not worthy and you are one rich bastid...

 

[SidVicious]

Here you go

They only benched 3D Studio Max 7 and Maya 6.5 but the performance lead the Opties got over the Xeons should be similar across other rendering & CAD apps.

AnandTech reached the same conclusion when they benched 8 ways platforms a few weeks ago.

 

[MagusDarkFlame]

I wish there was a bit more information there about the test setup or a bit more details to the test.

The other thing i find a bit odd is the date on the article Date : 10/19/2005
i thought the 2.8 paxville was releaced ~2 months or so...
could be wrong on that i try to keep up but generally info like what i'm looking for is 3+ months out of date beyond gaming and other applications

 

[BaronMatrix]

I wish there was a bit more information there about the test setup or a bit more details to the test.

The other thing i find a bit odd is the date on the article Date : 10/19/2005
i thought the 2.8 paxville was releaced ~2 months or so...
could be wrong on that i try to keep up but generally info like what i'm looking for is 3+ months out of date beyond gaming and other applications

You can believe that a 2Way Opteron is your best bet right now. If you really want the ultimate. www.monarchcomputer.com has quad Opterons with 16GB RAM for 10K.

 

[MagusDarkFlame]

quad seems a bit overkill for what i need
especially leeping in mind that other machines need to be upgraded at some point as well and they do most of the work...

Its still a bit expencive for me.. I usualy do the upgrades 3rd rev in or so when prices drop. I dont see much a diference paying extra for clock speed. Especially when the major boost comes from the the whole redesign