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    • MatteM Offline
      Matte
      last edited by

      Hi All,
      I was hoping someone could give me a basic opinion on speed increase estimation. I had an old laptop. I had a 5 year old duel AMD processor (HP dv9000) with 2 Meg ram. It passed away. I was going to replace it with another HP 7300 Quad with a Nvidia GT650M graphics card, an I7-3630QM processor and 16 Megs of ram.

      Before, it took me about 8 hours to do one single rendering image....could someone guess how much of a time reduction I might be able to expect?
      Thanks,
      Matte

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      • N Offline
        numerobis
        last edited by

        HP DV9000 should have an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 (?)

        http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Turion-64-X2-TL-60-Notebook-Processor.39265.0.html
        http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Core-i7-3630QM-Notebook-Processor.80051.0.html

        So comparing the cinebench R10 results it sould be around ~6 times faster
        X2 TL-60 = 3130
        3630QM = 21699.4

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        (www.notebookcheck.net)

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        • MatteM Offline
          Matte
          last edited by

          Thanks Numerobis,
          Thanks for the reality info, I was hoping it was going to be better then that! Oh well, by the time I have enough $ set aside there might be another evolution of speed improvement. Thanks for your evaluation, it was very helpful!
          Matte

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            numerobis
            last edited by

            You're welcome!
            I think this speed improvement would be quite "noticeable" - not sure what you had expected, but i would say that this will be a huge boost compared to your current situation (x7!). Ok, it's not the same speed like a desktop quad- or hexa core but it's a notebook... 😉

            and btw. the next CPU generation (Haswell) will be only a few percent faster than an Ivy Bridge quad (maybe up to 10%), so the next real speed improvement seems far away.

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            • MatteM Offline
              Matte
              last edited by

              Thanks,
              By the way in addition to the info you have shared...Would I notice any additional speed increase by shifting from (32 bit) Win 7 upgrade to the present offered (64 bit) Win 8?

              The main hope is not have a mental melt down. Right now it takes me days to draw something up due to the many minutes wait between commands that should take me a 4-5 hours. And constant freeze due to modle size. And 8 hours for one rendered image (good or bad) is just too long! It's hard to give a client 3-4 images in a day or two! Anamation is still OK as that type of work I would just send out to the cloud if required.
              Thanks again for your thoughts!
              Matte

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              • MatteM Offline
                Matte
                last edited by

                Hi,
                I have an option on a few of the laptops I am looking at.....Primarily for Sketchup and mostly for Shaderlight power.... Would I get any speed improvement switching from a single Nvidia GT 650M (2GB) to a "DUAL" (2GB Nvidia GTX 675M ? It sounds great? But I have no clue if it will make much difference?
                Thanks for anyone's advice!
                Matte

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                • MatteM Offline
                  Matte
                  last edited by

                  From what it looks like from searching the Nvidia website..It looks like the dual GTX 675M is the way to go? if I "understand" the specs well enough? Just not sure if the "gaming" claims have any value in the SU or Shaderlight world?

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