Blender 2.81 CUDA vs. OptiX Performance

Blender 2.81 NVIDIA CUDA and OptiX benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article.

HTML result view exported from: https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1911258-HU-BLENDER2807.

Blender 2.81 CUDA vs. OptiX PerformanceProcessorMotherboardChipsetMemoryDiskGraphicsAudioMonitorNetworkOSKernelDesktopDisplay ServerDisplay DriverOpenGLVulkanCompilerFile-SystemScreen ResolutionGTX 970GTX 980GTX TITAN XGTX 1060GTX 1070GTX 1080GTX 1080 TiGTX 1650GTX 1660GTX 1660 SUPERGTX 1660 TiRTX 2060RTX 2060 SUPERRTX 2070RTX 2070 SUPERRTX 2080RTX 2080 SUPERRTX 2080 TiTITAN RTXIntel Core i9-9900KS @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads)ASUS PRIME Z390-A (1302 BIOS)Intel Cannon Lake PCH16384MBSamsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB + 2000GB SABRENTeVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB (1163/3505MHz)Realtek ALC1220Acer B286HKIntel I219-VUbuntu 19.105.3.0-23-generic (x86_64)GNOME Shell 3.34.1X Server 1.20.5NVIDIA 440.314.6.01.1.119GCC 9.2.1 20191008ext43840x2160NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4GB (1126/3505MHz)NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X 12GB (1001/3505MHz)NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (1506/4006MHz)NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB (1506/4006MHz)NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB (1607/5005MHz)NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB (1480/5508MHz)ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB (1485/4001MHz)ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6GB (435/405MHz)eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB (480/405MHz)eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB (1500/6000MHz)NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6GB (1365/7000MHz)NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8GB (1470/7000MHz)ASUS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8GB (420/405MHz)NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8GB (1605/7000MHz)Zotac NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 8GB (1515/7000MHz)NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8GB (375/405MHz)NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11GB (450/810MHz)NVIDIA TITAN RTX 24GB (1350/7000MHz)OpenBenchmarking.orgProcessor Details- Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave - CPU Microcode: 0xc6OpenCL Details- GTX 970: GPU Compute Cores: 1664- GTX 980: GPU Compute Cores: 2048- GTX TITAN X: GPU Compute Cores: 3072- GTX 1060: GPU Compute Cores: 1280- GTX 1070: GPU Compute Cores: 1920- GTX 1080: GPU Compute Cores: 2560- GTX 1080 Ti: GPU Compute Cores: 3584- GTX 1650: GPU Compute Cores: 896- GTX 1660: GPU Compute Cores: 1408- GTX 1660 SUPER: GPU Compute Cores: 1408- GTX 1660 Ti: GPU Compute Cores: 1536- RTX 2060: GPU Compute Cores: 1920- RTX 2060 SUPER: GPU Compute Cores: 2176- RTX 2070: GPU Compute Cores: 2304- RTX 2070 SUPER: GPU Compute Cores: 2560- RTX 2080: GPU Compute Cores: 2944- RTX 2080 SUPER: GPU Compute Cores: 3072- RTX 2080 Ti: GPU Compute Cores: 4352- TITAN RTX: GPU Compute Cores: 4608Security Details- itlb_multihit: KVM: Vulnerable + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Mitigation of SSB disabled via prctl and seccomp + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Enhanced IBRS IBPB: conditional RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Mitigation of TSX disabled

Blender 2.81 CUDA vs. OptiX Performanceblender: BMW27blender: Classroomblender: Fishy Catblender: Barbershopblender: Pabellon BarcelonaGTX 970GTX 980GTX TITAN XGTX 1060GTX 1070GTX 1080GTX 1080 TiGTX 1650GTX 1660GTX 1660 SUPERGTX 1660 TiRTX 2060RTX 2060 SUPERRTX 2070RTX 2070 SUPERRTX 2080RTX 2080 SUPERRTX 2080 TiTITAN RTXCUDA: GTX 970CUDA: GTX 980CUDA: GTX TITAN XCUDA: GTX 1060CUDA: GTX 1070CUDA: GTX 1080CUDA: GTX 1080 TiCUDA: GTX 1650CUDA: GTX 1660CUDA: GTX 1660 SUPERCUDA: GTX 1660 TiCUDA: RTX 2060CUDA: RTX 2060 SUPERCUDA: RTX 2070CUDA: RTX 2070 SUPERCUDA: RTX 2080CUDA: RTX 2080 SUPERCUDA: RTX 2080 TiCUDA: TITAN RTXOptiX: RTX 2060OptiX: RTX 2060 SUPEROptiX: RTX 2070OptiX: RTX 2070 SUPEROptiX: RTX 2080OptiX: RTX 2080 SUPEROptiX: RTX 2080 TiOptiX: TITAN RTX172.00436.99373.651530.06996.81160.79410.39334.211313.78901.47136.33320.55279.54993.53713.03147.66475.47296.301415.25995.05103.88322.54202.90975.33680.4285.89253.31169.21754.03565.1759.74173.23118.25514.30383.26144.29499.89270.731626.361062.5791.07326.92170.111071.61673.4184.43309.88156.211026.10628.2087.64311.78159.851039.12639.4271.92294.27128.711019.05565.1060.79290.95113.22998.37527.4061.82298.02114.581020.18538.6949.48165.6687.37543.35344.6550.68164.8987.38541.88345.3649.63157.2986.27514.81335.7439.42151.8869.32526.00284.2635.55146.9463.92512.15272.3738.73149.1765.901743.02214.0231.55145.0258.911736.52197.3831.71148.1258.841770.36201.6827.3191.3445.64986.55139.0328.1989.0243.74960.66140.0027.6584.4641.21899.71134.2321.4375.9134.50908.56110.3219.9373.1931.98886.52105.18OpenBenchmarking.org

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Blend File: BMW27

CUDAOptiXOpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterBlender 2.81Blend File: BMW27GTX 970GTX 980GTX TITAN XGTX 1060GTX 1070GTX 1080GTX 1080 TiGTX 1650GTX 1660GTX 1660 SUPERGTX 1660 TiRTX 2060RTX 2060 SUPERRTX 2070RTX 2070 SUPERRTX 2080RTX 2080 SUPERRTX 2080 TiTITAN RTX4080120160200SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.30, N = 3SE +/- 0.34, N = 3SE +/- 0.21, N = 3SE +/- 0.31, N = 3SE +/- 0.27, N = 3SE +/- 0.18, N = 3SE +/- 0.13, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.15, N = 3SE +/- 0.23, N = 3SE +/- 0.27, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.15, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3172.00160.79136.33147.66103.8885.8959.74144.2991.0784.4387.6471.9260.7961.8249.4850.6849.6339.4235.5538.7331.5531.7127.3128.1927.6521.4319.93

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Blend File: Classroom

CUDAOptiXOpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterBlender 2.81Blend File: ClassroomGTX 970GTX 980GTX TITAN XGTX 1060GTX 1070GTX 1080GTX 1080 TiGTX 1650GTX 1660GTX 1660 SUPERGTX 1660 TiRTX 2060RTX 2060 SUPERRTX 2070RTX 2070 SUPERRTX 2080RTX 2080 SUPERRTX 2080 TiTITAN RTX110220330440550SE +/- 0.09, N = 3SE +/- 0.34, N = 3SE +/- 0.44, N = 3SE +/- 0.59, N = 3SE +/- 0.15, N = 3SE +/- 0.28, N = 3SE +/- 0.34, N = 3SE +/- 0.06, N = 3SE +/- 0.16, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.29, N = 3SE +/- 0.17, N = 3SE +/- 0.35, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.26, N = 3SE +/- 0.82, N = 3SE +/- 0.60, N = 3SE +/- 0.16, N = 3SE +/- 0.35, N = 3SE +/- 0.22, N = 3SE +/- 0.11, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.08, N = 3SE +/- 0.56, N = 3SE +/- 0.55, N = 3436.99410.39320.55475.47322.54253.31173.23499.89326.92309.88311.78294.27290.95298.02165.66164.89157.29151.88146.94149.17145.02148.1291.3489.0284.4675.9173.19

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Blend File: Fishy Cat

CUDAOptiXOpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterBlender 2.81Blend File: Fishy CatGTX 970GTX 980GTX TITAN XGTX 1060GTX 1070GTX 1080GTX 1080 TiGTX 1650GTX 1660GTX 1660 SUPERGTX 1660 TiRTX 2060RTX 2060 SUPERRTX 2070RTX 2070 SUPERRTX 2080RTX 2080 SUPERRTX 2080 TiTITAN RTX80160240320400SE +/- 0.15, N = 3SE +/- 0.06, N = 3SE +/- 0.08, N = 3SE +/- 0.11, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.12, N = 3SE +/- 0.08, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.14, N = 3SE +/- 0.16, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.08, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.07, N = 3SE +/- 0.19, N = 3373.65334.21279.54296.30202.90169.21118.25270.73170.11156.21159.85128.71113.22114.5887.3787.3886.2769.3263.9265.9058.9158.8445.6443.7441.2134.5031.98

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Blend File: Barbershop

CUDAOptiXOpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterBlender 2.81Blend File: BarbershopGTX 970GTX 980GTX TITAN XGTX 1060GTX 1070GTX 1080GTX 1080 TiGTX 1650GTX 1660GTX 1660 SUPERGTX 1660 TiRTX 2060RTX 2060 SUPERRTX 2070RTX 2070 SUPERRTX 2080RTX 2080 SUPERRTX 2080 TiTITAN RTX400800120016002000SE +/- 0.10, N = 3SE +/- 0.76, N = 3SE +/- 0.99, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.16, N = 3SE +/- 0.10, N = 3SE +/- 0.12, N = 3SE +/- 0.17, N = 3SE +/- 0.15, N = 3SE +/- 0.19, N = 3SE +/- 0.11, N = 3SE +/- 0.08, N = 3SE +/- 0.64, N = 3SE +/- 0.07, N = 3SE +/- 0.06, N = 3SE +/- 0.23, N = 3SE +/- 0.08, N = 3SE +/- 0.26, N = 3SE +/- 0.59, N = 3SE +/- 1.05, N = 3SE +/- 1.16, N = 3SE +/- 1.09, N = 3SE +/- 0.91, N = 3SE +/- 0.36, N = 3SE +/- 0.81, N = 3SE +/- 0.08, N = 3SE +/- 1.59, N = 31530.061313.78993.531415.25975.33754.03514.301626.361071.611026.101039.121019.05998.371020.18543.35541.88514.81526.00512.151743.021736.521770.36986.55960.66899.71908.56886.52

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Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona

CUDAOptiXOpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterBlender 2.81Blend File: Pabellon BarcelonaGTX 970GTX 980GTX TITAN XGTX 1060GTX 1070GTX 1080GTX 1080 TiGTX 1650GTX 1660GTX 1660 SUPERGTX 1660 TiRTX 2060RTX 2060 SUPERRTX 2070RTX 2070 SUPERRTX 2080RTX 2080 SUPERRTX 2080 TiTITAN RTX2004006008001000SE +/- 0.34, N = 3SE +/- 0.13, N = 3SE +/- 0.27, N = 3SE +/- 0.17, N = 3SE +/- 0.13, N = 3SE +/- 0.15, N = 3SE +/- 0.08, N = 3SE +/- 0.08, N = 3SE +/- 0.06, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.59, N = 3SE +/- 0.21, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.13, N = 3SE +/- 0.10, N = 3SE +/- 0.06, N = 3SE +/- 0.07, N = 3SE +/- 0.07, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.17, N = 3SE +/- 0.20, N = 3SE +/- 0.27, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.46, N = 3SE +/- 0.39, N = 3996.81901.47713.03995.05680.42565.17383.261062.57673.41628.20639.42565.10527.40538.69344.65345.36335.74284.26272.37214.02197.38201.68139.03140.00134.23110.32105.18

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