Blender opendata now supports 3.0 and HIP so I made a little chart to gauge performance.
Warning about the following chart:
- Opendata has very few entries for 3.0.1 at the moment
- Opendata by design has multiple uncontrolled variables between samples
- I removed laptop and pro GPU’s
- There are no bad GPU’s only bad prices, pricing data will fluctuate and differ between regions
- There could be errors, I didn’t check it and I’m not a statistician.
Warnings aside there is a clear indication that HIP performs considerably worse per dollar than Optix on recent cards. At the extremes of the chart you could replace a RX 6800 with a RTX 2060 pocket $700 and have a card that renders about 20% faster…
To link this back the thread topic the feedback is HIP and Blender are a poor fit, is it time to consider another approach?
