Okay, where can I get it and how much will it cost me?
24 core version chips are about ?7000 each
USA maybe cheaper
So, about 20 grand without any video? Good grief!
I’m less and less excited about systems like these as GPU rendering become more and more prevalent
Yeah, you can get a lot of GPU’s for 20 grand.
With current prices of GPUs I 'm not sure if GPU rendering is worth the costs. Especially taking the low memory of a GPU into account. For the 1300eur you pay at the moment for a single 1080ti you get a whole renderslave with an 8 core Rizen and 64gb Memory.
I’m not a big fan of the gazillion Core systems. They are way to expensive for the render power they provide. That 56 core machine will probabely be beyond 20k$. For the price you can get 12-13 ryzen 8 core renderslaves. That would be 104 cores at a much higher frequency.
There are only two scenarios where this makes sense to me. 4-8k video editing and fluid simulations. For anything else 3D related I would rather choose a combination of an 8 core workstation and renderslaves. Maybe when someone works with another software than max or maya, one that is fully multithreaded it may be different.
Yes, the CPU VS GPU debate continues 
24 core CPUs are so 2016. AMD Epyc 7601 - 32 cores / 64 threads in a single CPU. Dual CPU configuration scores ~7250 points in Cinebench R15 (some users report ~8000 points in recent tests). Cost per CPU $4000-4500**,** more than twice as cheap as Xeon 8180 ($10 000). They also have a version of this 32 core CPU that only works in a single socket configuration but is a lot cheaper at ~$2400. There are also rumors that their next iteration of Epyc will have 64 cores / 128 threads per CPU.
Alex_M - just wanted to post this You can get that monster at Velocity Micro.
There should be a lease program where you get the latest hardware every year, for like $200 a month.
i got one of those double XEON 2690v4 with 256GB RAM
it has cost me something around 12.000 bucks, but i have built it myself so unsure how much you woufl buy it assembled for. If you want i can send u full spec.
Scored 3930 in Cinebench.
its nice but …WIN 10 is alongside Vray and MAX is killing it once it gets to rendering. I really wish LOW PRIORITY really worked once again.
i have to disable like 4 cores within environmental variable if i want to do something like writing emails.
Yeah, I can’t use my machine while rendering, either. The mouse even freezes for minutes at a time. The processors are around $2500 a piece on eBay.
pretty sure both of those perform better with fewer cores / higher clock speed.
it’s not like an 8700 will outperform a top of the line xeon (maybe it would, i’m not sure?) - but at $300 vs $1500 there will not be a justifiable speed difference. I think just about the only thing that can use all cores equally is rendering.
for 4-8k editing you just need a local SSD array for proxies and a good (avid nexis) media server for storing raw footage. we actually just upgraded our edit setup - turned 2 workstations into machines that can edit and our modest i7’s are handling a monster of an edit (16k x 2k) fine.
LOL here I am rendering with 4 cores
I think the future will be based on hybrid rendering
36 cores (72 with hyperthreading) here and needs to be 10X faster.
These guys are talking CPU vs. GPU and they fall on my side of the fence. GPU isn’t ready for prime time unless you are willing to compromise on some things.
Pixar is making Renderman XPU, a hybrid render engine. looks promising.
I dont know much about rendering but, surly hybrid is at least what needs to be explored before going full GPU? - Trying to make it so you get the best of both worlds by getting the CPU and CPU work together.
I would like to see what the more clever CGI people think of the idea that a future version of V-Ray Advanced implemented some form Hybridisation with the GPU - I’m not talking about de-noising but actual rendering.
My last project nearly had me in tears…it was so hardcore rendering that shit and trying to make it look good. My computer crashed so many times. I will end up having to buy a proper computer instead of a car. I really need more power.
but you can put more gfx cards into a single system, is your price comparison taking into account having to buy, motherboards, chasis, coolers etc not forgetting extra licenses for rendernodes ?
Your always subject to your weakest link, so until GPU supports everything I do in CPU, I’ll have to wait. Hybrid is only good if you are building your scene for the GPU render.
I don’ t see it as GPU vs CPU. I like using both. GPU for fast previews with RT and CPU for production rendering. Unfortunately, thanks to the cryptominers the GPU prices are way to high at the moment. Also the lack of features supported with GPU and limited amount of Memory keeps me from using GPUs for production rendering. But I think this will change. Especially now that Nvidia announced a Raytracing Framework for Realtime engines we may see more optimized GPUs for raytracing in the future. I think both worlds realtime and non realtime rendering will become one in the future. This will most likely happen on the GPU. But taking into account all the nice features and GI Methods Vray offers for CPU rendering, we will stick to it for quite some time.