darkknightkryta said:
Netyaroze said:
darkknightkryta said:
What kind of processing power in FLOPS does Pixar's Renderman farm give out? |
Not sure but:
The Weta render farm that made Avatar was ranked 194-198 in Top 500 November 2009 list.
http://top500.org/list/2009/11/?page=2
Avatar used all of the power available at the time thats about 300 teraflops peak performance. For comparisson the HD 7990 has 8 teraflops. Quad SLI Titans would give 18 teraflops thats the best you can get in a modern PC today.
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And it still takes an hour to render a frame!
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Jup thats true. Its amazing how much ressources Avatar graphics need but there is still hope.
A lets say 300 tflop chip is way more efficent than a 300 tflop renderfarm that spreads the workload over 30000 CPUs. The ways of communicating between the chips takes ages compared to a single chip and the overhead is gigantic. A 300 tflop chip could do that work faster than 1 hour. But still not fast enough for games I guess, atleast not with movie production standards.
