Dell PowerEdge R7725 Delivers World Record Rendering Performance in V-Ray Benchmark
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Abstract
The Dell PowerEdge R7725, equipped with AMD® EPYC® 5th Generation processors, achieved six world records in render performance in the V-Ray benchmark. This record underscores Dell Technologies’ powerful compute performance in 3D rendering, often used for visualization of computer-generated graphics and media production. The exceptional results of the AMD® EPYC® CPUs featured by the PowerEdge R7725 illustrate Dell Technologies’ performance leadership for the most demanding workloads.
This document summarizes the V-Ray® Power results, including major configuration details and links to the results on the Chaos Group V-Ray® website.
V-Ray World Record Results
- Dell PowerEdge R7725 with 2 AMD® EPYC® 9965 192 Core CPUs
- V-Ray 5, Windows Server Best 2 CPU Windows score (V-Ray score 293897)
- V-Ray 5, Best 384 total core Windows score
- Dell PowerEdgeR7725 with 2 AMD EPYC 9755 128 Core CPUs
- V-Ray 6, Best 2 CPU Linux Score (V-Ray Score 376758)
- V-Ray 6, Best 2 CPU Windows Score (V-Ray Score 332038)
- V-Ray 6 Best 256 total cores Linux Score
- V-Ray 6 best 256 total cores Windows Score
What do these scores mean?
V-Ray is a render engine used in many commercially available professional 3D graphics suites, including 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, and Maya. Other use cases that require render engines include video game productions such as Unreal and building and architectural simulations such as Autodesk Revit or SketchUp. In addition to the render engine, Chaos Group—the developer of V-Ray—also maintains a rendering benchmark which uses their render engine. This benchmark provides insight into the relative performance of a specific configuration and demonstrates a clear and objective means to characterize the performance of a server for rendering tasks.
A render engine uses proprietary algorithms to render a visualization of a scene. This could be something as simple as creating a photo realistic simulation of a room in a residential environment or as complex as the computer-generated graphics of a Hollywood film production.
In essence, rendering is a necessary step in developing ideas from code and geometry to a realistic or artistically stylized visual medium.
A higher score in this context would indicate greater rendering throughput of a server, signifying that less time would be required to render a scene for a given input. For large render jobs, a significant volume of server nodes is deployed in ‘Render Farms’. For these tasks, individual server performance contributes greatly to the speed of completion. More performant individual nodes may also allow for a smaller number of servers to be used for a given job as well.
The world record levels of performance on offer with the Dell PowerEdge R7725 with AMD® EPYC® 5th Generation processors will allow for more rapid realization of 3D scenes and models, which has the potential to reduce the time spent waiting on completion of renders and allow more time for pursuing other vital creative tasks.
Notes
Results referenced are current as of August 22, 2024.
About the Dell PowerEdge R7725
The Dell PowerEdge R7725 is the ideal solution for organizations requiring industry-leading compute performance in a mainstream rackable solution. The Dell PowerEdge R7725 features support for DDR5 memory technology, PCIe Gen5 storage devices, and support for up to 500W TDP processors. Additionally, two different CPU core architectures are available in the PowerEdge R7725 at launch. Zen5 CPUs offer maximum per core performance, and Zen5c CPUs provide high performance, efficiency, and remarkable density with up to 192 cores per CPU.
Figure 1. PowerEdge R7725
Key configuration details
We tested 2 configurations of the Dell PowerEdge R7725 server:
- 2x AMD® EPYC® 9965 192 Zen5c cores at 2.0GHz – 384 cores total
- 2x AMD® EPYC® 9755 128 Zen5 cores at 2.6GHz – 256 cores total
Author: Jeremy Johnson, Compute Systems Technical Marketing