art3mis Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 (edited) My understanding is that outside of GPU rendering, many operations in Houdini are CPU limited and therefore would benefit with faster memory. The question is how much and is it really noticeable? ie if you are running memory rated at 2666 and can actually run at that speed, what performance improvement , if any, would you notice if you either OC'd (unlikely) to 3200 or purchased new memory rated at that faster speed? Especially considering the increasing price of RAM lately, want to make sure investing in 128GB of faster DIMMS is worth it. Edited December 17, 2017 by art3mis 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atom Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 I don't think it really is. You're talking about 3%-7% increase in speed, last time I looked. There are tons of youtube videos exploring this very concept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tar Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 2 hours ago, art3mis said: ie if you are running memory rated at 2666 and can actually run at that speed, what performance improvement , if any, would you notice if you either OC'd (unlikely) to 3200 or purchased new memory rated at that faster speed? Faster ram helps threadripper by 50% sometimes: https://sidefx.com/forum/topic/52583/?page=2#post-238591 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
art3mis Posted December 18, 2017 Author Share Posted December 18, 2017 Wow, thats crazy. If true it would seem that for certain types of simulations RAM speed is a limiting factor. Not familiar with -j8 -j16 syntax. I assume these are command line variables passed in if launching from command line? Does this mean Houdini doesn't recognize extra CPU cores otherwise? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeiamyourfather Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Buy the fastest memory your processor can support. This is not the same as the fastest memory your motherboard can support (that's just advertising bullshit because the processor has the memory controller on die). If you're not sure then lookup the specific processor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tar Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 25 minutes ago, art3mis said: I assume these are command line variables passed in if launching from command line? Does this mean Houdini doesn't recognize extra CPU cores otherwise? Houdini defaults to using all cpus but you can limit it, with the -j flag, to test threading processes or leave processing cores available for other tasks. i.e. Mantra IPR defaults to all but 1 process so you can still use the machine whilst interactively rendering. You can see that under Mantra/Rendering/Render -> Use Max Processors menu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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