Benchmarking

RF4 performance chart.

This benchmarking chart gives some comparative simulation times on different machines, using a standard scene especially set-up to make maximum use of multi-threading. Please note that this is chart is not designed to compare hardware brands or be used for product comparison. If you would like to participate in the benchmarking then please fell free to download the scene. You can post us your results here.

  • Make sure no other application is running otherwise the test might be affected.
  • Open a command line/terminal and go to the RealFlow4 installation folder. Type the following command realflow -nogui -threads # "c:\scenes\BreakingDam.flw" and hit enter to simulate.
  • Once the simulation has finished, check the command line/terminal and post your results.

    Note: # would be the number of threads on your system and " c:\scenes\Benchtest.flw " should point to the recently downloaded .flw file

To find information more easily, you can now sort the benchmarking table by categories. Click on the table headings to re-order the contents

User CPU Type Cores Clock Memory GB RF Version OS Simulation time
hammed AMD Opteron 8347 Quad-Core Desk PC 32Gb 1.9GHz 32 4.3.8.0124 64 bits Windows Server 2003 64bit 00:28:17
BOXXlabs Dual Intel Xeon 5482 (3DBOXX 8400SE) Desk PC 8 3.2GHz 16Gb RF 4.3.8.0124 64 bits Windows XP Professional 64bit 01:28:13
Mirage Intel Xeon X5365 Desk PC 8 3GHz 12Gb RF 4.3.8.0123 64 bits Windows XP Professional 64bit 01:45:33
aglick Xeon 5365 Desk PC 8 3GHz 4Gb RF 4.3.8.0123 32 bits Windows XP Professional 64bit 01:53:13
Mark Stasiuk Intel Xeon E5345 Desk PC 8 2.33GHz 8Gb RF 4.3.8.0123 64 bits Windows XP Professional 64bit 02:12:18
ofx Q6600 Desk PC 4 3.15GHz 4Gb RF 4.3.8.0124 64 bits Windows Vista 64bit 02:13:18
Phil Smith Q6600 Desk PC 4 3.30GHz 2Gb RF 4.3.6.0121 32 bits Windows Vista 02:13:39
Aniki QuadCore Q6600 Desk PC 4 2.4GHz 4Gb RF 4.3.8.0123 64 bits Windows XP Professional 64bit 02:29:41
Chman Core Quad Q6600 Desk PC 4 2.4Ghz 2Gb RF 4.3.8.0123 32 bits Windows XP Professional 02:35:41
Marnix Reckman Intel Xeon CPU 5160 Desk PC 4 3GHz 8Gb RF 4.3.8.0123 64 bits Windows XP Professional 64bit 02:41:11
Aniki QuadCore Q6600 Desk PC 4 2.4GHz 4Gb RF 4.3.8.0123 64 bits Windows XP Professional 64bit 02:49:22
koolhaas Q6600 Quad Core Desk PC 4 2.4GHz 4Gb RF 4.3.8.0123 32 bits Windows XP Professional 03:35:30
ranxerox AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 285 Desk PC 4 2.59GHz 8Gb RF 4.3.6.0121 64 bits Fedora Core 6 64bit 03:42:45
ChristianZ Apple [2x] Xeon X5355 Desk PC 8 2.66GHz 8Gb RF 4.3.8.0123 32 bits Mac OS X 10.4 03:56:58
Makinator
7266		 DUAL CORE 6000 Desk PC 2 3.2GHz 2Gb RF 4.3.8.0123 32 bits Windows XP Professional 04:41:18
alien pioneer Dual Core AMD Opteron 265 Desk PC 4 1.81GHz 4Gb RF 4.4.8.0123 64 bits Windows XP Professional 64 bit 04:47:34
luke Opteron 2210 HE Desk PC 4 1.80GHz 8Gb RF 4.3.6.0121 64 bits Windows XP Professional 64bit 04:49:27
luke Opteron 2210 HE Desk PC 4 1.80GHz 16Gb RF 4.3.8.0124 64 bits Ubuntu 7.04 64bit 04:52:03
daehwan jang Core 2 Duo E6300 Desk PC 2 2.8GHz 4Gb RF 4.3.6.0121 64 bits Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 64bit 05:30:45
Makinator
7266		 core2duo T7700 Laptop 2 2.4GHz 4Gb RF 4.3.8.0123 32 bits Windows Vista 32bit 05:33:41
nacho Apple MacPro Quad/ Desk PC 4 2.66GHz 2Gb RF 4.3.8.0123 32 bits Mac OS X 10.4.10 06:23:26
Edgar AMD Opteron 250 (2.4 GHz) Desk PC 2 2.4GHz 4Gb RF 4.3.8.0123 64 bits openSUSE 10.2 64 bit 06:48:08
kleban Pentium 915 Desk PC 2 2.8GHz 2Gb RF 4.3.8.0123 32 bits Windows XP Professional 08:40:51
Albo Dual Intel Xeon Desk PC 2 3GHz 2Gb RF 4.3.6.0121 32 bits Windows XP Professional 09:27:06
Hen bob Pentium D 820 Desk PC 2 2.8GHz 2Gb RF 4.3.8.0123 32 bits Windows XP Professional 10:06:54
bealobo Intel Core 2 duo E6600 Desk PC 2 2.4GHz 4Gb RF 4.3.8.0123 64 bits Windows XP Professional 64 bit 11:47:50
atena Intel Core 2 duo E6600 Desk PC 2 2.4GHz 4Gb RF 4.3.8.0123 64 bits Windows Vista 64 bit 11:49:42
luism Intel Core 2 duo E6600 Desk PC 2 2.4GHz 4Gb RF 4.3.8.0123 32 bits Windows Vista 64 bit 12:46:57
atena Intel Pentium(R) 4 Hyperthreading Desk PC 1 3GHz 2Gb RF 4.3.8.0123 32 bits Windows XP Professional 14:23:28
carlos Intel core 2 duo E6400 Desk PC 2 2.13GHz 2Gb RF 4.3.6.0121 32 bits Windows XP 32 bit 14:27:38
bubinga PowerPC 970FX G5 Desk PC 2 2GHz 4Gb RF 4.3.8.0123 32 bits Mac OS X 10.4 23:14:27


 

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