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This is the documentation home page for V-Ray Benchmark.
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What is V-Ray Benchmark
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V-Ray Benchmark is an application that tests your system resources to gauge how well your system renders V-Ray scenes using both the CPU and the GPU. Through a standalone executable, users can run V-Ray Benchmark to score how fast their system can render some sample scenes of common V-Ray uses without having V-Ray installed. Results can be submitted to an online site that aggregates all submitted system specifics and their scores for comparison sake. This is useful for making decisions on upgrades and allocating system resources as required. Also, it's just pretty cool!
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GPU Rendering A hardware with at least 2048 MB of RAM is required for benchmarking your GPU. The GPU benchmark option will not be available unless this requirement is fulfilled. |
Where to Download
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Click the link below to download V-Ray Benchmark. Once you log in to your account, you can download V-Ray Benchmark for the desired operating system as an executable file that may be placed anywhere on your machine to be run directly. There is no licensing or installation required, but please do read through the license agreement once you launch the application.
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V-Ray Benchmark can also be used with a command-line interface, making it suitable for benchmarking machines that have no monitors connected, such as render farms. Navigate to the location of the OS-specific application using a system console (or terminal), and execute the benchmark application.
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V-Ray Benchmark tests the performance of the machine where it is started. Testing render farms would require running V-Ray Benchmark on each farm machine to get the performance result of your farm. |
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V-Ray Benchmark for Windows comes with two separate executables - one for GUI usage, and another one for command-line usage. The Linux and Mac OS X versions have one single executable for both GUI and command-line usage. |
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| --quiet | -q | Implicitly agree to the EULA and hide installer's output | vraybench_1.0.8_win_x64-cli.exe --quiet |
| --mode=MODE | -m MODE | Picks a mode for rendering. MODE can be: cpu, gpu, or all. | vraybench_1.0.8_win_x64-cli.exe --mode=all |
| --dump | -d | Provides debug information while rendering. | vraybench_1.0.8_win_x64-cli.exe --mode=cpu --dump |
| --version | -v | Provides information about the current version of V-Ray Benchmark. | vraybench_1.0.8_win_x64-cli.exe --version |
| --help | -h | Displays a help message with the available comman-line flags. | vraybench_1.0.8_win_x64-cli.exe --help |
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The command flags in the Option alias column in the table above are simply shortened aliases of the commands in the Option column. You can use either of the aliases. Mixed usage is also possible, for example: vraybench_1.0.8_win_x64-cli.exe --mode=all -q |
To run V-Ray Benchmark through the command-line interface, just pick a rendering mode or run the file (in which case the all mode will automatically be chosen). You will then be prompted to accept the End-User License Agreement, after which the benchmark will begin. Keep in mind that multiple flags can be used simultaneously.
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Linux and OSX: Executing V-Ray Benchmark without a flag will force its GUI to appear. If you wish to run a benchmark without the GUI, you have to specify the rendering mode explicitly in your command-line tool. |
Command-line usage examples:
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