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Hyperthreading, Arnold, and you

Posted on January 30, 2013 by xsisupport

Rendering on a 4 Core Xeon CPU with HT

Rendering on a 4 Core Xeon CPU with HT

Does Arnold take advantage of hyperthreading? Yes. In general, you can expect to see a 20% improvement in rendering performance.

3 thoughts on “Hyperthreading, Arnold, and you”

JackH on January 31, 2013 at 11:27 am said:

Thanks for the great info on this blog, I find it very helpful. Regarding hyperthreading, when I kick a scene file it will use all 12 threads (intel xeon X5650) but it doesn’t go above 70% during the render. I’m still trying to figure it out and I have a few more tests to do but I thought I’d mention it.

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- JackH on February 1, 2013 at 5:32 pm said:
  
  Apologies, I mean it doesn’t go above 70% CPU usage. I think I was a bit vague in the first post.
  
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- xsisupport on February 1, 2013 at 6:08 pm said:
  
  I guess I would look at what’s in the scenes. If every scene did that, that would be odd.
  
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