[Bf-cycles] Tiles sizes - impact on RAM and speed

[Cal McGaugh]

I still don't understand why tiles are better than progressive renders (?)
regardless of CPU or GPU.

Much less which tile size/resolution settings are best for any given
scene.

I don't do complicated scenes.....mostly fluid sims. But like to animate
using Cycles, so getting the fastest render time is very important to me.

It would be great if Blender Cycles "sensed" the optimal settings depending
on the resolution and other variables were chosen. Possible?

BTW, thanks Ole for the FAQs......will study them.

And to Brecht for all your work on Blender.

Cal




On February 10, 2013 at 2:42 PM Ole Jakob Skjelten <olesk at pvv.org> wrote:

> Oh sorry guys, one last thing. As I mentioned initially, these questions were
> for an article in a Cycles GPU Hardware FAQ I've been setting up trying to
> preempt the most common questions that gets asked repeatedly at Blenderartist
> regarding all things hardware related to GPU rendering.
> 
>  If anyone wants to copy & paste or link parts or all of it to the official
> Blender wiki you are of course more than welcome to. As previously mentioned,
> you can find it at http://www.systemagnostic.com/faqs/
> <http://www.systemagnostic.com/faqs/>
> 
> 
>  OJ
> 
>  --
>  Ole Jakob Skjelten
>  olesk at pvv.org <mailto:skjelten at wegelin.ch>
>  +41 79 832 2976
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  On 10. feb. 2013, at 18:45, Brecht Van Lommel < brechtvanlommel at pandora.be
> <mailto:brechtvanlommel at pandora.be> > wrote:
> 
> 
>      > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Ole Jakob Skjelten < olesk at pvv.org
>      > > <mailto:olesk at pvv.org> > wrote:
> > 
> >          > > > Thanks a lot for that Brecht! My understanding is that
> >          > > > *reducing* tile sizes
> > >          only has a positive effect with regards to reducing the size of
> > > the output
> > >          buffer, which is in most cases is a rather small part of the
> > > total RAM eaten
> > >          by Cycles, and thus, unless you you're in a desperate
> > >          I-only-need-10MB-more-RAM-to-render-on-my-GPU scenario,
> > > increasing the tile
> > >          size for speed benefits is the more likely scenario. Would you
> > > agree?
> > > 
> > >      > >      Yes, I agree. Maybe if you have a ton of render passes, but
> > >      > > otherwise
> >      you can quite safely set it quite large.
> > 
> > 
> >          > > > It's also my understanding that, using CUDA, keeping your
> >          > > > tiles to multiples
> > >          of 16 pixels helps speed (or rather prevent wasting GPU cycles)?
> > > And
> > >          finally, does it help to operate with tiles that are multiples of
> > > the full
> > >          render resolution, or should one use same values for x and y
> > > direction
> > >          (square tiles) instead?
> > > 
> > >      > >      Multiples of 16 might indeed help, I'm not quite sure if
> > >      > > this true in
> >      general though and if this perhaps depends on the particular GPU.
> >      Multiples of the render resolution will help if you use big tiles,
> >      since otherwise you can get some smaller tiles to fill up the full
> >      render.
> > 
> >      Brecht.
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