Chaos Group’s V-Ray Benchmark is a widely used tool for benchmarking your Processor and your Graphics Card.
If you are thinking of building a Computer for 3D Modeling, would like to see what GPU performs best in V-Ray, or what CPU is best for your rendering needs, this benchmark is extremely helpful.
V-Ray 5 CPU Benchmark Results
Apart from the XEON Dual CPUs, these are all single CPU Results.
▮ = AMD | ▮ = Intel
CPU Name | # Cores | Ghz | VRAY CPU Benchmark vsamples |
---|---|---|---|
AMD Threadripper 3990X | 64 | 2.9 | 73025 |
AMD Threadripper 2990WX | 32 | 3.0 | 27760 |
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X | 16 | 3.4 | 24733 |
Intel i9 10980XE | 18 | 2.6 | 22840 |
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X | 16 | 3.5 | 19077 |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 12 | 3.7 | 18659 |
Intel i9 10940X | 14 | 3.1 | 15213 |
AMD Threadripper 2950X | 16 | 3.5 | 15996 |
Intel i9 10920X | 12 | 2.9 | 15100 |
AMD Threadripper 1950X | 16 | 3.4 | 15397 |
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | 12 | 3.8 | 14706 |
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X | 8 | 3.8 | 12275 |
Intel i9 10900X | 10 | 3.3 | 11386 |
Intel i9 9900K | 8 | 3.6 | 11068 |
AMD Threadripper 1920X | 12 | 3.5 | 11039 |
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X | 8 | 3.9 | 9888 |
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X | 8 | 3.6 | 9829 |
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 6 | 3.7 | 9506 |
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X | 8 | 3.7 | 8904 |
Intel i7 8700K | 6 | 3.7 | 7965 |
Intel i7 8086K | 6 | 3.7 | 7756 |
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X | 8 | 3.6 | 7706 |
AMD Ryzen 7 1700X | 8 | 3.4 | 7472 |
AMD Ryzen 7 2700 | 8 | 3.2 | 7342 |
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 | 8 | 3.0 | 7234 |
AMD Threadripper 1900X | 8 | 3.8 | 6760 |
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 6 | 3.6 | 6056 |
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 | 6 | 3.2 | 5672 |
Intel i7 7700K | 4 | 4.2 | 5232 |
Intel i5 9600K | 6 | 3.7 | 4784 |
Intel i5 8400 | 6 | 2.8 | 4223 |
AMD Ryzen 5 1500X | 4 | 3.5 | 3486 |
AMD Ryzen 5 1400 | 4 | 3.2 | 2675 |
CPU Name | # Cores | GHz | VRAY CPU Benchmark vsamples |
V-Ray 5 GPU CUDA Benchmark Results
As we can deduct from the GPU Scores, scaling with multiple GPUs is not linear. Benchmarking time with 2x, 4x or 8x RTX 2080 TIs does not scale perfectly.
These Scores have been taken in combination with an Intel i9 10900K, except for the Multi-GPU Benchmarks.
GPU Name | VRAM (GByte) | V-Ray GPU CUDA vsamples |
---|---|---|
4x NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti | 11 | 3314 |
NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti | 24 | 2153 |
NVIDIA RTX 3090 | 24 | 2091 |
NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti | 12 | 2054 |
2x NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti | 11 | 1902 |
NVIDIA RTX 3080 | 10 | 1760 |
NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti | 8 | 1510 |
NVIDIA RTX 3070 | 8 | 1409 |
NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti | 8 | 1238 |
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti | 11 | 1004 |
NVIDIA RTX 3060 | 12 | 873 |
NVIDIA TITAN V | 12 | 858 |
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Super | 8 | 855 |
NVIDIA RTX 2080 | 8 | 821 |
NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super | 8 | 775 |
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti | 11 | 689 |
NVIDIA RTX 2070 | 8 | 650 |
NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super | 8 | 534 |
NVIDIA RTX 2060 | 6 | 498 |
NVIDIA GTX 1080 | 8 | 452 |
NVIDIA GTX 1660 Super | 6 | 436 |
NVIDIA GTX 1660 Ti | 6 | 418 |
NVIDIA GTX 1660 | 6 | 387 |
GPU Name | VRAM (GByte) | V-Ray GPU CUDA vsamples |
Download V-Ray Benchmark here
The V-Ray Benchmark is free to use and will put your Graphics Card and your Processor through a series of Rendering Tests.
Get the V-Ray 5.00.01 Benchmark Version we use in this article here: Download V-Ray 5.00.01 Benchmark
How to read these Scores
Many other Rendering Benchmarks, such as Octane Bench or Cinebench, assign a Score to the Benchmarking Result.
V-Ray, though, tells you the number of “vsamples” it was able to take within one minute. Of course, the higher the vsamples, the better.
Because GPU Rendering Performance relies so much on various factors such as PCIe-Lanes, CPU Clock Speed, and Number of Cores, it is important to note that all GPU Benchmarking times listed above were taken with an Intel i9 10900K CPU (Single-GPU Scores).
If you have a different CPU, it might very well be that your Benchmark Score Results are off by a few hundred samples or even more, depending on your setup.
For GPU Rendering, it’s better to get a high clocking CPU that doesn’t necessarily have many Cores to make your GPUs render at the maximum possible performance. Check our GPU Render Guide for an in-depth explanation of this.
CPU vs. GPU Rendering in V-Ray Benchmark
This question comes up frequently: CPU or GPU rendering? What is better?
Well, the answer depends on what you want to render. Here’s why:
The great thing about GPU Render Engines is that you get responsive or even Real-Time Feedback of your Scenes and can iterate and tweak your Settings much quicker and more often than when rendering on the CPU.
More iterations mean higher quality end-results.
Of course, this only works if you don’t need any kind of features that either don’t work well on the GPU or take a long to time to prepare, like huge displacements, Motion Blur, or Meshes that are so big, they or the Scene don’t fit into your VRAM.
If you have to swap to System RAM, things get slow.
There were times when GPU Render Engines were just not mature enough and lacked many of the features that CPU Render Engines offered.
But nowadays, this argument is fully valid anymore. GPU Render Engines such as V-Ray, Octane, Redshift, Furryball, and many others have reached the same level as CPU Render Engines and have even overtaken them in some cases.
V-Ray Benchmark Results: Interesting Findings
Multi GPU Setups don’t scale well in V-Ray. With 2 or 4 GPUs you’ll see lower performance per GPU than when running just a single GPU.
In V-Ray’s CPU benchmark you’ll have to make sure to use Benchmarking Scores and not Cores for selecting your new CPU for Rendering. Because individual Core Performance depends a lot on the CPU’s architecture and IPC, you’ll find CPUs that are much faster than others even though they have the same number of cores. There are even CPUs that score higher even though they have fewer cores.
What GPU & Computer are you buying and building?
163 Comments
31 March, 2022
Did someone compared V-Ray and Redshift with displacement maps and vram usage? V-Ray sucks vram almost as Arnold gpu. Is Redshift more optimized with this?
17 May, 2022
Yes, V-Ray deffenetly sucks vram as Arnold. That’s a bad thing. And it has strange hang before render starts, also as Arnold. Arnold now have denoiser for cpu rendering…
13 June, 2022
Hello, V-Ray has a hang in the beginning of rendering but after that is quite fast. Now i want to buy rtx 3090 for my 4790k cpu. Will there be bottlneck in rendering? I don’t mind bottleneck in gaming…
19 June, 2022
Should be fine. PCIe 3.0 x16 shouldn’t bottleneck the 3090.
Cheers,
Alex
24 June, 2022
Hello, Sorry for bothering but i have one more question. Would scene preparation be much faster on more powerful processor?
Thank You.
28 June, 2022
Hey Vex_Vro,
Scene Preparation is single-core performance dependent. So if by “powerful CPU” you mean a CPU with high single-core performance, then yes.
More cores will not benefit preparation time.
Cheers,
Alex
6 February, 2021
hi alex..
i am trying to build my workstation with a tight budget.. around 1000$
and i am wondering if you have any suggestions for me..
i work with 3D Max _ v-ray next and photoshop ..
8 February, 2021
Hey Ammar,
Check our PC-Builder tool first and come back if you have any other questions! 🙂
https://www.cgdirector.com/pc-builder/
Cheers,
Alex
21 January, 2021
hi,
I’m really confused, why is the Threadripper 1950x ranking so high? this can’t be…
22 January, 2021
That really seems off. I’ll do another benchmark of the 1950X to confirm. Thanks for the heads-up!
28 October, 2020
Hi Alex, I am curious if there are any bench marks for AMD GPU’s for 3ds max and Vray. With most of AMD cards being more affordable- however I am not seeing much on bench marks – is there a reason for this?
Also, I really want to upgrade from my RTX 4000 – which tends to crash quiet a bit and has a hard time handling large scenes. Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you
Victor
30 October, 2020
Hey Victor,
Most Vray Versions do not support AMD GPUs. You can check our compatibility post here: https://www.cgdirector.com/render-engine-hardware-compatibility-cpu-gpu-hybrid/
The best value GPUs for CUDA rendering in vray are currently the recently released RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 GPUs. They are quite hard to come by though as they are so popular and stock is low. See if you can get your hands on one of those.
Cheers,
Alex
30 October, 2020
Hi Alex,
Thank you for you reply. 🙂 I will try to get my hands on one of the new RTX 3000 series.
Victor
15 October, 2020
sorry alex…
for my last question , i wanna make it simple..
Do PCI-E Lanes Matter For GPU Rendering?
if u can help me , tell me abaut pcie x4 and x1(wifi port)
because i must choose between these 2. i dont ve thunderbolt port
16 October, 2020
Hey Sadegh,
PCIE-Lanes matter in most cases. It depends on the GPU you are using. If the GPU isn’t fast enough to saturate a certain amount of pcie-lanes’ bandwidth, then having more pcielanes will do nothing for performance.
For all RTX / GTX 20xx gpus or below, x8 pcielanes is enough (2080ti barely saturates x8)
For RTX 30xx Series GPUs you should make sure to have x16 pcie3.0 lanes
If all you have is pciex4 and x1, obviously you should chose the x4 slot. Then again,the x1 slot will probably not be a mechanical x16-slot and won’t even fit your gpu at all. But a x4 slot will heavily throttle a 3080. Not recommended.
Cheers,
Alex
16 October, 2020
thank you alex
i got it