Lightwave benchmark for users with PPC, 060, PiStorm, Vampire accelerators

Q over at Hold and Modify on YouTube just posted a Lightwave Raytrace Scene benchmark and I absolutely love this type of stuff so if you're interested please follow the link below to follow the simple steps to run the benchmark and post your results & system specs

Hold and Modify Lightwave3D Benchmark Raytrace Scene!

For those that don't want to watch the whole vid here's the quick setup:

1- File-Load Scene-Benchmarks folder-choose Raytrace scene
2- Camera Panel- set to low resolution- set to square pixels
3- click Render or hit F9

Q's system results:

A3000, Phase5-MKII (060@50), OS3.2.1- 52m24s
A1200, TF1260 (060@50)128MB, OS3.2.1-54m22s
A4000, BFG060 (rev6) 060@50, 128MB, OS3.2.1- 43m46s
A2500, PP&S (040@25), OS3.3.2.1- 2h2m8s

A4000, CS-MKIII, 060@50 (Rev1), OS3.2.1- 47m21

A1200, TF1260, 060@50 (Rev1), OS3.2.1- 51m48

It's interesting that this happened, because yesterday I run with some friends Lightwave benchmarks on different systems like you mentioned above, but with the benchmark scenes not modified. This way, in my opinion, you can be sure that you have the same testing point everywhere.

I also contacted Kevin to help with these tests, but it seems what he did in that video is not useful for my benchmarking, because he changes the scenes.

Today, I am going to run some more tests and then I can provide the results if you want.

Just to get an idea of where PPC computers like the X5000 stand, some time ago I did a benchmark of the unmodified scenes, which you can see below:

@walkero

thanks for the vid and too bad we can’t get the render screens working properly under OS4.1

The resolution on the video is very low and can’t make out the shell commands to render…can you please post here how to render from shell

With the settings Q provided, my AmigaONE X5000 renders this in 3m 27s.

@Cageman

how do we render from shell again? Since FE came out I can’t get render screens to work at all

@328gts

I do not use shell rendering...

Start LW, load benchmark scene and adjust the settings per Q:s instructions.

When you hit F9, you will get a Grim Reaper... just click on more and then click on ignore DSI errors

Once you do that, you will go back to the black screen with some text. Once the render is complete, you will see a very buggy looking image. LMB click and you will be returned to the black screen with text. There you can see the rendertime.

Make sure you do a second F9 render after the first, because I think the DSI error on the very first render might add some extra time.

I will suggest that you use either ModePro or NewMode to promote Layout to a proper screenmode. I use NewMode and promote Layout to a 720x480x8 screen.

@Cageman

Thanks will try it out

@328gts

I think my betterfakemode can display ham6/8. if remember correct, just it might not work all programs.

VistaPro is pritty fast on X1000

from YouTube thread:

AmigaONE X5000/020-PPC-OS4.1FE- 3m27s

Did anyone compare those new 68k/68kEmu things (PiStorm, Vampire) to a decent PPC setup this way ?

@TheMagicSN

not yet