Tom Klaber Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 Thanks. That is a handy page. Is there a similar one for CPUs? Or is a current generation i7 simply fine? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted May 10, 2016 Author Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted May 10, 2016 Pretty much, CPU is only extremely important for Renderworks renderings and then only for speed, not quality or anything like that. If rendering is taking up huge chunks of your day, then investing in a powerful CPU is important and worth the money. Quote Link to comment
barnes2000 Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 Just got my new machine this summer. So far, so good. Intel i7 Eight Core Enhanced Performance Processor 4.125 Ghz 32GB DDR4-2133 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB 256GB SSD System Drive 1TB 7,200rpm SATA Storage Drive 1 Quote Link to comment
rDesign Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 Buying a new computer with an Intel processor is going to become more confusing now that Intel has rebranded their mobile line of processors: Intel Rebrands Core M Line as Core i : Laptop Mag Quote Link to comment
bbeanan Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 So I have been looking into a new system and doing some research. I read that for rendering (I have renders taking 28 hours + right now) that the older Xenon processors are better than the new i7. So I found some referb mac that are decent priced:http://www.macofalltrades.com/Refurbished-Used-Apple-Mac-Pros-s/389.htm but really waiting to see what specs are for 2017 Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 (edited) These aren't bad. Not because older Xeons would be better than newer Xeons, but just because there are 2 of them. 2 x 6 Core Xeons would be much less expensive than 1 x 12 Core Xeon in the nMac Pro. And, while it is clear that the future are not CPUs but GPUs, which means nMac Pro is much better, there is still not so many software really profiting from GPUs as it does from simple CPU (Rendering) today. And the main reason why a lot of people keep their latest "old" Mac Pros is simply that they have a NVidia option, while nMac Pro is AMD only so far. Like many also look for refurbished 2013 iMacs. And most Render Software that uses a faster GPU Renderer like VRAY, Arnold, ... support CUDA only. And CUDA is proprietary by NVidia and not available for AMD GPUs. AMD uses, like propagated from Apple, OpenCL instead. Which unfortunately is seldom supported by common Software and as it looks even poorly implemented and supported by Apple itself. So in reality my both D700s will most of the time sit bored in my pretty black urn and usually won't create much heat. Edited September 10, 2016 by zoomer Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted September 10, 2016 Author Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 10, 2016 Xeons being inherently faster or slower than the i7 series isn't true, they are both a range of different CPUs and the specific model series and number would be needed to determine performance. The best way to directly compare two CPUs for rendering is to find the same benchmark used for both in a comparison, both tested with Cinebench is the most accurate since Cinebench uses the exact engine that Renderworks does. If you can get the exact model numbers for both I can normally find a comparison online and give you more accurate feedback. Quote Link to comment
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