A question about performance

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jvidal

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Hi!

I got a little question.
Performance-wise, what does NTLite favor? more speed, more cores, more cache?
For example, I have two CPUs that I can put in the PC I use to do the integration:

1. AMD Athlon II X2 270, Dual core, 3.4 Ghz, 2MB L2, No L3.
2. AMD Phenom II X4 945, Quad Core, 3.0 Ghz, 2MB L2, 6MB L3.

Which one would give me better performance on Ntlite?
 
Yes, but I'm talking specifically about NTLite, will NTLite perform faster?
Maybe it only makes use of one core, so Raw clock speed is better...
 
yes, both work fine. I was wondering what would ntlite benefit more from. higher clock speeds or more cores with more cache, but lower speeds.
 
Test your CPUs, or see results online like here, and the one that wins any single-threaded test is the one to go with.
I test with Cinebench R20 render (it has multi and single core test), but it can be anything, including NTLite processing of the same situation on both.
That said, 2 cores does sound too little, as OS might be doing something in the background slowing it down regardless how fast a single core is.
 
are you telling me that NTLite doesn't use more than 1 core?
In that case the dual core cpu running at 3.4ghz should be better suited than the quad core running at 3.0ghz...
 
oh cmon jvidal, i told you this morning more cores were better, i gave you the link to the thread about build times where i explained that ntlite uses all availible cores and dism only uses 1 core and that ntlite must use dism for some operations. ive actually seen the proof because i have had task manager open when i do builds. i dont lie for the sake of it. im done with this thread.
 
but nuhi JUST SAID that whichever scores best in single-threaded tests is the one I should go with.
and I quote"...and the one that wins any single-threaded test is the one to go with."

I KNOW that more cores is better, that's obvious. I'm asking SPECIFICALLY about Which is best for NTLite.
 
I've got 16 cores, ntlite takes about 17 minutes to complete ...
Also only got 5Tb of SSD's inside my system. And 48Gb RAM ...
 
jvidal said:
Which one would give me better performance on Ntlite?
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What I ended up doing (Frequent, semi-automated builds) for highly acceptable performance:

- A machine with at least 8 cores Xeon-W any speed (Still often this CPU gets its socks rocked)
- A machine with minimum 192GB of RAM
- Primo RAMDISK of not less than 32GB
- NTLITE Temp, Cache, directories on Ramdisk
- Working directories on NVMe SSD
- Toggle off windows defender during builds (set-mpcomputerpreference in PS)
 
Yea actually the Dell Precision 7920XLR or 5820XL is a good start actually; no joking.

Look, its like I tell my customers: It is just MONEY, little pieces of paper we invented so that we don't have to kill something every time we get hungry.

You cannot take it with you.

Ancient Egyptian pharaohs tried; the results varied. >:}
 
jvidal said:
Hi!

I got a little question.
Performance-wise, what does NTLite favor? more speed, more cores, more cache?
For example, I have two CPUs that I can put in the PC I use to do the integration:

1. AMD Athlon II X2 270, Dual core, 3.4 Ghz, 2MB L2, No L3.
2. AMD Phenom II X4 945, Quad Core, 3.0 Ghz, 2MB L2, 6MB L3.

Which one would give me better performance on Ntlite?
Click to expand...
NTL is NOT a perfomance tool - why you don't test you self as you've the ability from hardware.
And at the same time, NTL has millions of possibilities to achieve what you are looking for.
 
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