Octanebench Benchmark Results (Updated Scores)

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CG Director Author Alex Glawionby Alex Glawion   /  Updated 

OctaneBench is the currently most popular GPU Rendering Benchmark. It scales beautifully across multiple GPUs and has a series of rendering tests built-in.

The OctaneBench Benchmark Rendering Results are assigned linearly scaling OctaneBench Points.

It is the popular GPU pendant to the well-known CPU Benchmark Cinebench R23, for which you can check the Results here.

Both benchmarks are crucial in finding the best Hardware for GPU Rendering, and ultimately the best Computer for Rendering.

So let’s take a look at the current OctaneBench Benchmark Results and keep an eye on the performance/dollar column:

Octanebench V2020.1 Benchmark Results

GPU NameVRAM (GB)OctaneBench ScorePrice $Performance/Dollar
8x RTX 2080 Ti11
2733
9592
0.285
2x RTX 409024
2587
3198
0.809
4x RTX 308010
2203
2796
0.788
4x RTX 2080 Ti11
1433
4796
0.299
1x RTX 409024
1272
1599
0.795
4x RTX 2080 Super8
1100
2880
0.382
4x RTX 2070 Super8
1057
2200
0.480
4x RTX 20808
1017
3196
0.318
4x RTX 2060 Super8
961
1260
0.763
1x RTX 408016
952
1199
0.794
4x GTX 1080 Ti11
837
2800
0.299
1x RTX 4070 Ti12
710
799
0.889
1x RTX 4070 SUPER12
704
599
1.175
2x RTX 2080 Ti11
693
2398
0.289
1x RTX 3090 Ti24
692
1999
0.346
1x RTX 309024
661
1499
0.441
1x RTX 3080 Ti12
648
1199
0.540
1x RTX 407012
641
549
1.168
1x RTX A600048
628
5000
0.126
1x RTX A500024
593
2250
0.264
1x RTX 308010
559
699
0.800
2x RTX 2080 Super8
541
1440
0.376
2x RTX 2070 Super8
514
1100
0.467
2x RTX 2060 Super8
485
840
0.577
2x RTX 20708
482
1000
0.482
1x RTX 3070 Ti8
454
599
0.758
1x RTX 4060 Ti8
410
399
1.028
1x RTX 30708
403
499
0.808
2x GTX 1080 Ti11
382
1400
0.273
1x Quadro RTX 600024
380
4400
0.086
1x RTX 3060 Ti8
376
399
0.942
1x Quadro RTX 800048
365
5670
0.064
1x RTX Titan24
361
2499
0.144
1x RTX 2080 Ti11
355
1199
0.296
1x Titan V12
332
3000
0.111
1x RTX 306012
289
329
0.878
1x RTX 2080 Super8
285
720
0.396
1x RTX 20808
261
620
0.421
1x RTX 2070 Super8
259
550
0.471
1x RTX 2060 Super8
240
420
0.571
1x Quadro RTX 40008
232
950
0.244
1x RTX 20708
228
500
0.456
1x Quadro RTX 500016
222
2100
0.106
1x GTX 1080 Ti11
195
700
0.279
1x RTX 2060 (6GB)6
188
360
0.522
1x RTX 30504
179
249
0.719
1x GTX 980 Ti6
142
300
0.473
1x GTX 1660 Super6
134
230
0.583
1x GTX 1660 Ti6
130
280
0.464
1x GTX 16606
113
230
0.491
1x GTX 9804
94
200
0.470
1x RTX 6000 Ada48
1094
6800
0.161
1x RTX 5000 Ada32
816
4000
0.204
GPU NameVRAM (GB)Octanebench ScorePrice $Performance/Dollar

Octanebench V4.00 Benchmark Results

GPU NameVRAM (GB)OctaneBench ScorePrice $Performance/Dollar
8x RTX 2080 Ti11
2441
9592
0.254
8x GTX 1080 Ti11
1673
5600
0.299
8x RTX 20708
1623
4000
0.406
4x RTX 2080 Ti11
1176
4796
0.245
4x RTX 20808
874
3196
0.273
4x GTX 1080 Ti11
853
2800
0.305
4x RTX 20708
803
2000
0.402
2x RTX 2080 Ti11
588
2398
0.245
2x RTX 20808
441
1598
0.276
2x GTX 1080 Ti11
429
1400
0.306
2x RTX 20708
409
1000
0.409
Titan V12
396
3000
0.132
2x RTX 20606
392
720
0.544
Quadro GV10032
359
9800
0.037
RTX Titan24
326
2700
0.121
RTX 2080 Ti11
304
1199
0.254
Quadro GP10016
284
7000
0.041
Titan Xp12
250
1300
0.192
RTX 2080 Super8
233
720
0.324
RTX 20808
226
620
0.365
GTX 1080 Ti11
222
700
0.317
RTX 2070 Super8
220
550
0.400
RTX 20708
210
500
0.420
RTX 2060 Super8
203
420
0.483
RTX 2060 (6GB)6
170
360
0.472
Titan X12
160
1200
0.133
GTX 980 Ti6
156
300
0.520
GTX 1070 Ti8
153
450
0.340
Quadro M600024
152
3849
0.039
GTX 10808
148
550
0.269
Quadro P500016
145
1600
0.091
GTX 10708
133
400
0.333
GTX 1660 Ti6
132
280
0.471
GTX 780 Ti3
117
150
0.780
GTX 16606
117
230
0.509
Quadro P40008
115
750
0.153
GTX 9804
112
200
0.560
GTX Titan Black6
108
480
0.225
GTX 9704
95
170
0.559
GTX 1060 (6GB)6
88
300
0.293
GTX 1060 (3GB)3
87
200
0.435
GTX 16504
78
150
0.520
GTX 1050 Ti4
54
160
0.338
GTX 10502
45
125
0.360
Quadro RTX 800048
316
5670
0.056
Quadro RTX 600024
304
4400
0.069
Quadro RTX 40008
188
950
0.198
Quadro RTX 500016
186
2100
0.089
Titan RTX24
322
2800
0.115
GPU NameVRAM (GB)Octanebench ScorePrice $Performance/Dollar

Some interesting Octanebench Scores findings

Let’s take a look at some of those Octanebench Scores:

What becomes obvious right away, is that the performance and price don’t really seem to correlate all that much.

If you look at some of the top Results, the GPUs: Titan V, RTX 2080Ti, Quadro GV100, and RTX Titan, they all have more or less the same Octanebench Score, but the Price difference is HUGE.

Why is this so?

The main reason is, that the different Graphics Cards are meant for different use cases. An RTX 2080Ti is clearly meant more for Gaming than a Titan V or Tesla P100, and Gaming Cards, for our benefit, just happen to be great for Octane Rendering and score well in the Octane Benchmark.

Also, The Titan V and Quadro Cards have more VRAM, optimized Drivers, 10bit Displaying, and lots more.

These Features though do not improve the Octanebench Benchmark Results. The Scenes are fairly small, and the VRAM is not an important aspect in the Benchmark.

Another extremely important thing to note is the GTX 1070 Ti and the GTX 1080 scoring 153 vs. 148 Octane Benchmark Octanebench Points. And this even though the GTX 1080 is 100$ more expensive.

It almost seems as though NVIDIA has not differentiated enough between those two cards.

The new RTX Cards are still somewhat too expensive for the small performance increase they offer.

A 1080Ti you can get for 700$ and it has 11GB of VRAM compared to a similar scoring RTX 2080 with only 8GB of VRAM.

What is Octane Render

Octane is a currently extremely popular GPU Render Engine that is supported by most modern and popular 3D Softwares such as Cinema 4D, 3ds Max, Maya, Revit, Blender, Houdini, Modo and more are being added.

What is Octanebench

Octanebench is the GPU Render Benchmark based off of Octane Render.

It renders several pre-packed scenes on your hardware and assigns OctaneBench Points depending on your overall Rendering Performance.

100 Octanebench Points are equivalent to the speed of an Nvidia GTX 980.

Octanebench Points scale linearly. This means an Nvidia TitanXp with 200 Octanebench Points will render a given Scene twice as fast as an Nvidia GTX 980.

Octane Render supports CUDA GPUs only and no OpenCL meaning it supports NVIDIA GPUs only.

In Octanebench you can select if Octanebench should run the Benchmark on all of your built-in Graphics Cards or only on one or on a number of selected GPUs.

This is great for analyzing your Multi-GPU scaling which should be near 100% effective in Octane Render.

Download Octane Benchmark Octanebench

You can download OctaneBench for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux here.

Other Popular Benchmarks

For testing your GPU Rendering Performance, Octanebench is certainly one of the most popular Benchmarks out there. Another popular GPU Render Engine is Redshift and Vray-RT.

For benching your CPU, you will definitely want to go get Cinebench R23 (Up-to-date Scores here).

It is the most popular CPU Rendering Benchmark. It can bench your CPU on Multiple Cores or Single Cores.

This is great for finding CPUs that are snappy for actively working on the computer as well as finding the best CPUs for Rendering.

What GPU to get for Octane

Now, there are certainly lots of extremely fast GPUs that can get you a very high Octanebench Score. These GPUs though usually come at a huge performance premium, price-wise.

If you would like to find the best GPU for the money, I wrote an in-depth article on finding the best budget hardware for GPU Rendering here.

To summarize that article, the NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super with 8GB of VRAM has the lead in most GPU Render benchmarks when you are looking at best performance per dollar.

What Graphics Card do you want to buy?




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Alex Glawion

Hi, I’m Alex, a Freelance 3D Generalist, Motion Designer and Compositor.

I’ve built a multitude of Computers, Workstations and Renderfarms and love to optimize them as much as possible.

Feel free to comment and ask for suggestions on your PC-Build or 3D-related Problem, I’ll do my best to help out!

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  • Mont

    Im just curious about some of these prices, an RTX 3080 for 700? Id love to know where to buy those at that price 🙂

    • Alex Glawion

      Hey Mont,
      These are MSRP Prices. GPUs are heavily price inflated currently, but at normal market rates, that’s the price Nvidia suggests a 3080 should be sold for.

      If we’d use actual prices with the current stock situation, the table would fluctuate strongly every day / week.

      Hope this helps.

      Cheers,
      Alex

      • Mont

        Hey Alex,

        Yeah i can understand that, i thought for a moment that there was some magical site where all these cards had dropped 80%.

        But nay.

        Thanks Anyways

        • Alex Glawion

          I’d love to have such a magical site!! 😀

  • Laki

    What do you mean new RTX cards have small performance increase for the price? 3080 is almost 4×1080 for 800-900$ and also has rtx technology and more vram

    • Alex Glawion

      Hey Laki,
      You are absolutely right. I’ll be updating this article soon, there have been a lot of changes with the RTX 3xxx Series.

      Cheers,
      Alex

  • md2020

    Just an FYI the listing for the 980 Ti for Octane 2020 looks wrong at 256. Otoy has the GTX 980 Ti listed at 142 for the 2020 benchmark. I think what you have listed is more like the 2x 980 Ti number. I just almost bought 2 used cards based on this before double checking it was too good to be true! 😉

    • Alex Glawion

      Hey MD2020,
      Sorry about that, and thanks for the heads-up – fixed! 🙂

      Cheers,
      Alex

  • Mau

    Hey Alex, great article.

    I would love if you could point me to an article that compares the performance of different processors with the same GPU. Is it such a marginal difference that no one cares to make this review? LOL

    • Alex Glawion

      Great Article Idea, will get on something like that! Actually, there is a difference.

      High clocking cpus generally perform better in gpu rendering, mostly because there are some processes involved in rendering a scene that are handled by the cpu, namely mesh / texture processing, getting the scene ready to send to the gpu’s vram.

      Stuff like that can be marginally sped up on a CPU with high clocks.

      The thing is, the longer your bucket rendering phase, the less important this preparation phase gets. If you are rendering lots of short images (like <3min per img) then a high clocking cpu might make somewhat of a difference, if you are rendering a long time per img, then this preparation time (which is more or less the same amount of time per frame, no matter how long it renders in bucket phase) is not as important.

      In the end it is usually more important to keep an eye out for pcie lanes per gpu, and HEDT CPU'sthat tend to clock lower just support more of those.

      Cheers,
      Alex

      • Mau

        Thanks man. This was clarifying. Looking forward for your tests on this issue. I’m always questioning myself how to better balance CPU and GPU powers (considering how much to spend on each) for a Lookdever’s workflow.

  • Phil

    hey alex,
    wanted to ask, just how good is a gtx 1060 or gtx980m with octane (on a laptop) is there a drop in final image quality or just a way more increased render time. i’m on a very tight budget and i need to get a temporary pc for work so i’m looking into that

    • Alex Glawion

      Hey Phil,
      The Quality is the same, you’ll just see much longer render times than with higher tier gpus.

      Cheers,
      Alex

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