LuxMark v2.0: LuxRender propaganda with OpenCL

[Dade]

Introduction

After a year from the release, LuxMark v1.0 has been widely used as OpenCL benchmark by AnandTech, Tom's Hardware, Vr-zone and other sites. AMD has used LuxMark as one of the 5 GPU computing benchmarks to present the new HD7970.

LuxMark v2.0 includes SLG2 as rendering engine with Metropolis Light Transport, Multiple Importance Sampling, Image reconstruction done on the GPU, support for multiple OpenCL platforms (i.e. Nvidia users can use Intel or AMD CPU device) and many more new features. The new features rise the complexity of the benchmark of nearly one order of magnitude and it should be able to put some serious stress on the new generation of GPUs. The capability to submit results to a centralise WEB database looks like the most interesting new feature of LuxMark v2.0: http://www.luxrender.net/luxmark



Features

* Open source
* 100% OpenCL
* Cross platform (Linux, MacOS, Windows, etc.)
* Complex/real world code used as GPU computing benchmark
* Support for OpenCL GPUs-only, OpenCL CPUs+GPUs, OpenCL CPUs-only benchmarking
* Support for Interactive mode
* Easy to run
* Multiple scenes usable as benchmarks

New in LuxMark v2.0:

* Totally new rendering engine based on SLG2 with Metropolis Light Transport, Multiple Importance Sampling, Image reconstruction done on the GPU, ecc;
* Multi-platform OpenCL support;
* 2 new benchmark scenes, for a total of 3 benchmarks with a raising complexity (~200,000, ~500,000, ~2,000,000 triangles);
* Run the benchmark only on the OpenCL devices you selected on the device panel;
* Added the possibility to submit the scored result to a centralised result database: http://www.luxrender.net/luxmark;

Download

Precompiled binaries for major OS are available at http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/LuxMark#Download

License & Sources

LuxMark is part of LuxRays source repository and is release under GPL license. The sources are available at http://src.luxrender.net/luxrays

Result Database http://www.luxrender.net/luxmark

If you have a valid LuxRender forum account, you can submit your results to the LuxMark result database: http://www.luxrender.net/luxmark. The database offers online real-time browsing, searching, average results, top 20s and many more features.

[Dade]

P.S. congratulation to everyone for the fantastic job

[SATtva]

And primarily to Dade, of course. You are the Man!

[jensverwiebe]

Dade: the sala scene you show on the LuxMark wiki is already brighter, did you changed the linear tonemapping afterwards?
If so i must update the scene for OSX:

EDIT: k, i saw you upped tm 1.0 -> 1.6, uploading updated OSX LM now.....( to be sure with complete scene renew )

Jens

[moure]

Congrats on the new release Dade and everyone that helped


EDIT: btw i made small article about it in a greek 3d forum, hope we get some more results

[Dade]

btw i made small article about it in a greek 3d forum, hope we get some more results

Thanks, I started again the "propaganda" operation:

- http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?p=1616304
- http://igad2.nhtv.nl/ompf2/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=85

[Dade]

More propaganda

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... P-OFv0blWA
http://translate.google.it/translate?hl ... %2FTest%2F
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=4233454

[SATtva]

Bloody spammer.

[areandres]

Promotion in German Magazin PCGH.

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,86606 ... /Download/

And online they make a test with AMD 7950 GRAKA

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,86606 ... arte/Test/

[jabber1]

Hi Dade with the AMD SDK now everything works fine.
http://developer.amd.com/sdks/AMDAPPSDK/Pages/default.aspx
Now we have my Phenom in the result DB.
I have also seen a FX Processor by l33tnyu.

Have made benchmarks with the newest NV driver but there was no change in performance.


The last benchmark i run was single gpu Room.
And i had a memory allocation error. (again)

But after a LuxMark restart there was no problem.

So LuxMarkV2.0 is very nice!

Two things i found in the Reslut DB.
-In the average table. It would be better to have rounded numbers. The 4 digits after comma are just confusing in my opinion.
-It would be cool to have a "sort" Feature in the table. To sort by date or score or...
(Both are not a must have but a nice to have!)