56 Cores in ONE SYSTEM!

[glorybound]

Okay, where can I get it and how much will it cost me?

[leehumphries]

24 core version chips are about ?7000 each

https://www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer...v4-socket-2011

USA maybe cheaper

[glorybound]

So, about 20 grand without any video? Good grief!

[Morne]

I'm less and less excited about systems like these as GPU rendering become more and more prevalent

[glorybound]

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.

[samuel_bubat]

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.

[glorybound]

Yes, the CPU VS GPU debate continues

[Alex_M]

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.

[Oleg_Budeanu]

Alex_M - just wanted to post this You can get that monster at Velocity Micro.

[glorybound]

There should be a lease program where you get the latest hardware every year, for like $200 a month.

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

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.

[glorybound]

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.

[Neilg]

4-8k video editing and fluid simulations.

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.

[stevejjd]

LOL here I am rendering with 4 cores

I think the future will be based on hybrid rendering

[glorybound]

36 cores (72 with hyperthreading) here and needs to be 10X faster.