[vtkusers] [vtk-developers] [vtk-users] OpenGL2 - GPU Volume Rendering performance

[Simon ESNEAULT]

Hello Aashish,

Thanks for the quick answer
We are using a vtkImageData, 512x512x591 with short element (you can find
the dataset here : https://www.dropbox.com/s/ptqwi0ebv75kt35/volume.zip).
So I think it's all about GPU volume raycast mapper.
The new mapper does bring low resolution, but when compared to the old one,
it seems less "low resolution" during interaction than the old one
Shading is enabled, gradient opacity disabled

Don't know if you need a minimal example, but I believe the GPURenderDemo
used with this dataset is enough to highlight the slow down.

Thanks
Simon


2015-10-26 18:57 GMT+01:00 Aashish Chaudhary <aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com>
:

> Also,
>
> Do you have shading enabled? We fixed a bug with shading that was causing
> the slow performance a while back. I don't remember if that was included in
> 4.4 or not ( I can check ).
>
> - Aashish
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Aashish Chaudhary <
> aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> Simon,
>>
>> What kind of dataset you are using? Depending on the data type you might
>> be using
>> the GPU one or the unstructured renderer. The performance we measured is
>> related to the GPU ray cast mapper
>> and will apply only to the vtkImageData inputs.
>>
>> Also, helpful would be is if you can tell if the new mapper is bringing
>> low resolution when you interact with the volume (and whether or not it
>> happens with old mapper).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Simon ESNEAULT <simon.esneault at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> We are trying to make the switch to the new OpenGL2 backend for our
>>> application, and although the switch was easy (thanks for not breaking the
>>> API ;) ), we can see a significant slowdown on the GPU volume rendering
>>> part, especially during interaction. Typically we dropped from 15/20 fps to
>>> 7/8 fps, on the same machine (Win32, Nvidia Quadro K420), with the same
>>> code around.
>>>
>>> This slow down can be seen in ParaView, if you compare the latest 4.4
>>> OpenGL2 build with the classic 4.4 build while volume rendering a big
>>> enough volume (512^3)
>>>
>>> The blog post here
>>> http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/976
>>> claims that the new GPU volume rendering implementation should be faster
>>> than the old one, is there some more detailed explanation somewhere ? Are
>>> there some important parameters that can make the difference ?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>>> PS : The polygonal rendering seems a lot faster with the new backend !
>>>
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