[g__day (Matthew)]

So RTX 4070 added now - glad that is all set up - a tad tricky - but its rocking along - and PixInsight Xterminators are far faster, as is SetiAstro AstroSuite and Davinci Resolve - things are between 3x - 6x faster in initial benchmarks - but I will post a more comprehensive update later.

Bottom line - I am completely happy with this set up now!


Test results:

So a bit more of an Astronomy workload benchmarking afternoon since installing a current generation graphics video card (Asus ProArt RTX 4070) in my new workstation. I concentrated benchmarking using SetiAstro's amazing astro suite running Sharpen and Denoise on a 73 MB test image - testing both the CPUs and new vs old GPU, than I ran Passmark for good measure.


The results are rather solid and pleasing:


SetiAstro Sharpen took:
1. Dual CPUs 36 cores at 100% load took 15 mins 30 seconds
2. Original Quadro P4000 GPU 3 mins 20 seconds
3. New RTX 4070 GPU took 76 seconds


SetiAstro Denoise took:
1. Dual CPUs took 5 mins 40 seconds
2. Original P4000 GPU took 3 min 27 seconds
3. RTX 4070 GPU took 47 seconds



Pass mark results were all pleasing for a system whose heyday of the CPU and Memory set up would have been ten years ago!