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I am in the process of purchasing a dedicated machine for rendering for my office. The first priority is to produce images with 3DS Max and V-Ray. A very distant second would be to render images from Revit. Due to the "skills" of our particular IT department the option of a rack server is unavailable. Sadly this is because all of our current rack mounted servers sit on the ground. So I plan on getting a tower based system. The majority of images I produce and plan on producing are large format still shots. For printing I try to produce images at a resolution of 5000 x 3000. Very large I know but this is not negotiable at this time. The two platforms I have narrowed the decision to are the AMD Operton 6000 series @ 2.1 ghz and the Intel Xenon 5520. Both would be Dual Socket and the AMD would have 12 cores per socket, and the Intel platform 6 cores. The reason for not going to a more power Intel solution for me is cost.
My first question is, does anyone know of a test with the above mentioned software, working on a scene which resembles the attached images in a rough order of magnitude, which compares the two cpu configurations?
Secondly, is there any concrete issue with image quality when the image begins to be worked on by such a large number of cores? I use light cache in many instances for the secondary bounces and have read more threads can cause the light cache to be slightly noisier. I am very willing to deal with this with more cpu time as the secondary bounces are miniscule compared with the final render time.
Thank you for your time in considering my post.
Cheers,
I am in the process of purchasing a dedicated machine for rendering for my office. The first priority is to produce images with 3DS Max and V-Ray. A very distant second would be to render images from Revit. Due to the "skills" of our particular IT department the option of a rack server is unavailable. Sadly this is because all of our current rack mounted servers sit on the ground. So I plan on getting a tower based system. The majority of images I produce and plan on producing are large format still shots. For printing I try to produce images at a resolution of 5000 x 3000. Very large I know but this is not negotiable at this time. The two platforms I have narrowed the decision to are the AMD Operton 6000 series @ 2.1 ghz and the Intel Xenon 5520. Both would be Dual Socket and the AMD would have 12 cores per socket, and the Intel platform 6 cores. The reason for not going to a more power Intel solution for me is cost.
My first question is, does anyone know of a test with the above mentioned software, working on a scene which resembles the attached images in a rough order of magnitude, which compares the two cpu configurations?
Secondly, is there any concrete issue with image quality when the image begins to be worked on by such a large number of cores? I use light cache in many instances for the secondary bounces and have read more threads can cause the light cache to be slightly noisier. I am very willing to deal with this with more cpu time as the secondary bounces are miniscule compared with the final render time.
Thank you for your time in considering my post.
Cheers,
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