I see I see,
Well your 5000 euro range is pretty accurate, you really cant get anything descent beneath the 5k mark. VAT is good for me, I get it back via taxes, so yeah. But I’m gonna ask my dealer if they can buy them directly. Might cost some extra.
Guess it won’t be this month, still thank you.
No problem, didn’t want spam this thread :- D (feel free to email me later if you want assistance).
If you can wait until mid-September, Haswell-EP like will arrive. i7 5930k will be still hexacore sadly (so roughly 10perc.~ performance upgrade just due to architecture), 5960X will be Octactore, and v3 Xeon range will come too.
All of them will support DDR4 memory and will come with slightly higher cache. It won’t be rather dramatic improvement again but just another food for thought/alternative.
Hi everyone! i notice this conversation while i’m trying to understand if the 2680v2 coul be a better choice over the 2695vs… i have find a site wich sells the two with a difference of 400€, the 2680v2 at 1600€ and the 2695v2 at 2000€, i’m plannig to buy one of them becouse i could not wait till the xeon v3 coming out in september, but i can’t figure out wich one could be the better choice for me…i mean, 800€ are an important difference in the total cost of the workstation, and i’m trying to justificate them with the performance gain…but will the 2695v2 overtake the 2680v2? becouse i see that the 2680v2 is a 10 cores processor, while the 2695v2 have 12 cores, if i do the math i have 12x3.2=38.4 GHz and 10x3.6=36 GHz…
i would like to understand if this is a right count, or it means nothing in render time…becouse i really don’t know if it could be better to have more core but lower clocked, or vice versa…
Sorry for the intrusion in you conversation! I hope you could give me a better opinion than the benchmark page of cinebench :S
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Of course I’m planning to buy two of them…
Numerobis had posted on CGArchitect http://forums.cgarchitect.com/76503-render-node-configuration-light-new-v-ray-licensing-scheme.html this chart:
Regarding rendering performance, I do not think it’s personally worth to go for higher cored models than 2680v2, because the additional performance increase is negligible, even if price difference would be small (but it isn’t).
If additional budget is present, it’s possible to rather think of 2687v2 WS, because of its high native/turbo clock, but again, it comes at price with only benefit for single-threaded tasks, rendering performance would again be close to identical.
Your overall math is correct, the ratio between ‘number of cores/frequency’ only affects single threaded tasks, which benefit purely from higher clock, while overall multi-threaded performance can be derived by multiplying the cores by frequency.
In the latter regard, all the higher end Xeons are very close to each other.
Thank you very much Juraj!! With that in mind i can now make the right choice and go for the 2680 V2…and with the money that i save by taking the cheaper one, i can think about the new i7-5960x in september 
Thank you again for you rapid answer!
That’s the spirit !! :- ) I am looking towards one too, can’t wait haha. DDR4 + GTX880. I wonder how it’s going to overclock (seeing as the base clock is only 3GHz)