From: "Jim Curtis" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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Subject: Re: [AE] PCIe 4.0 NVMe cache performance?
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 16:01:11 -0600
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Speaking of rendering, Render Garden is on sale for $49 until 12/3 on =
Toolfarm.  It maxes out all the cores on my MacPro.  Much faster than Ae =
rendering on comps that are usually slow to render in Ae 2018.=20

Now, back to your regularly scheduled discussion.


> On Nov 28, 2019, at 3:55 PM, Chris Zwar <AE-List@media-motion.tv> =
wrote:
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> I doubt it, it=E2=80=99s really hard to benchmark properly.  Even if =
someone claimed they had, I would want really clear details on what =
they=E2=80=99d done.
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> For example - even on the machine I=E2=80=99m using now, with AE 2020, =
I=E2=80=99m 99% sure that rendering in the app is about twice as fast as =
background rendering.  I=E2=80=99ve done a few tests, flushed cache, =
rebooted and done everything I can to try and make sure what I=E2=80=99m =
seeing is repeatable.  But it takes time to do properly, I=E2=80=99m =
still not certain, and this is just on the same machine. It=E2=80=99s =
much harder with different hardware.  There are a lot of performance =
benchmarks I=E2=80=99d love to try across different hardware but it =
would take days of full-time work to really do it properly and I know I =
don=E2=80=99t have the time or access to hardware!   If anyone else =
does, credit to them :-)
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> -Chris
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>> On 29 Nov 2019, at 2:57 am, Stephen van Vuuren =
<AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:
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>> I have not found any real meaningful differences in AE caching even =
PCI vs SATA as other issues seem to drag it down. Has anyone =
scientifically tested this?
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: [AE] PCIe 4.0 NVMe cache performance?
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>> Hey all,
>> Have any of you done any testing on using a PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive as AE =
Cache, particularly as it would compare to a PCIe 3.0 NVMe cache drive =
within an After Effects/Premiere environment?
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>> Theoretically, AE would be able to write cache files even faster to =
the PCIe 4.0 disk, but I don=E2=80=99t know how that bears out in real =
world performance. I=E2=80=99m speccing a 3950X build and pondering =
this.=20
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>> carey
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