Threadreaper with - intel e5 v4 rendering farm

[ALEX_SPYROPOULOS]

Hi all , I have a small rendering farm for in house animations with 5 racks of dual xeons e5 v4 (2x dual 14,2x dual18,1x dual 22cores) , I can't afford to upgrade them all together at the same time but I was wandering if there are any issues upgrading my main workstation to a threadripper. Are there any special avx instructions, embree (i don't know what am I talking about ) that don't work or underperform with AMD? So I have two 14 core xeons @3.5 boost for my workstation (the fastest single thread) and thinking to upgrade to a single slot threadripper 64 cores, I work in complicated mostly interior scenes , with all effects and shenanigans on ... displacement etc. I think I will benefit from better single thread performance and many more cores on a single die. Is a threadripper ok ? Am i going to lose performance from the rest of my farm ...

[Muhammed_Hamed]

Are there any special avx instructions, embree (i don't know what am I talking about ) that don't work or underperform with AMD?

Hi Alex,

I have the 3990wx Threadripper here and 5950X Ryzen CPUs, they work nicely with Vray.. Don't worry about that
Once you jump on the AMD train, you will probably never look back. Vray doesn't use AVX directly.. Vray uses Microsoft libraries that will use AVX instructions on rendering...This is fine or Ryzen CPUs and will not affect you in any way
Same applies for Embree, it works nicely on AMD as far as I know.

I work in complicated mostly interior scenes , with all effects and shenanigans on ... displacement etc. I think I will benefit from better single thread performance and many more cores on a single die. Is a threadripper ok ? Am i going to lose performance from the rest of my farm ...

Single threaded performance is much better on Ryzen side, you will feel that in your scenes
Plenty of people use a mix of Intel and AMD CPUS on their farms, nothing is wrong with that
And yes Threadrippers are very good, I have been using them since Gen 1 .. and they matured enough now at Gen 3

My advice here is to invest into good Mobo and good cooling for your Threadripper
Entry level boards are problematic, this monster CPU needs special VRMs to perform as expected. you will need to spend 600 Euros or more on your Mobo
MSI MEG creation TRx40 or Asus Zenith Extreme are very good boards. And for cooling get a Noctua Aircooler or something like CoolerMaster TR edition 360, it does a great job

Let me know if you have any questions

Best,
Muhammed

[ALEX_SPYROPOULOS]

Thank you Muhammed...Cooling, I have to research, I have to fit it in a 4u rack case , I think it is 14 or 16 cm high....I have a low rise noctua for the xeons and some corsair loops for my dual 22...but this one will probably need something else. I can fit a double radiator ...but I prefer noctua air cooling because I can move things around quickly. If it doesn't throttle.