Render times on iMac 27" with i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz & Radeon M390

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#1

GPU renders are quite slow on my rig and also slow down user interaction with Mac during rendering.
On the other side CPU rendering is, well…OK. Furthermore, I can read some article during the render or browsing some hardware e-shop and dreaming about kick-ass computer for my 3D career :slight_smile:

Machine: iMac 27" Retina
CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 M390 2048 MB
OS: macOS Sierra 10.12.2
Tile size: 520x270
Time: 14 min 03 seconds (CPU - OpenCL)
Time: 13 min 26 seconds (CPU)
Time: 14 min 30 sec (GPU)
Tile size 260x135:
Time: 10 min 54 seconds (CPU)
Tile size 120x68:
Time: 10 min 23 seconds (CPU)
Tile size 60x34:
Time: 09 min 43 seconds (CPU)
Tile Size 30x17:
Time: 09 min 37 seconds (CPU)

#2

One more thing. CUDA drivers won’t work on Mac with AMD/ATI Cards.

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#3

CUDA is on nVidia cards. AMD has something called openCL (at least it does on PC, not sure about Mac) it works just about the same, but it’s still experimental, so some features won’t work in the render. The only one I’ve run into was translucent shaders. They just show up as black spots.

#4

Yes, OpenCL is available also on Mac, but is slower then CPU.

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