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![]() If you find it, you better sell it off while you still can to get the latest because the days where you render with NON PBR materials are OVER !
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I spent less than 2000$ for a 16 core AMD Threadripper PC. You could buy 3 of those machines for 7400$ and if you link them together those 48 cores would vastly outperform the 27.000$ 32 core Linux machine you mentioned. You could even buy 2 AMD Epyc Server CPUs with 32 cores each, an appropriate dual socket mainboard, ram, graphics card etc and you would still have some money left of those 7400$. |
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![]() Well there's a reason I haven't touched it in a long time. Had an interest but not really much aptitude, or maybe it was time. And with two small kids and a commute I really don't have the time!
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![]() But I now work somewhere where I get to see plenty of cool 3d shit on a regular basis, so there is that.
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LOL, I am SO not getting into an argument with a username on the internet... you clearly have no idea what a workstation class machine is, so I'll just giggle and move on. ![]() |
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![]() This could have been a productive discussion, you chose to be conceited and arrogant. |
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![]() PC ≠ Workstation, Lemon.
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![]() I gave specific examples with server grade hardware, maybe you didn't notice.
Besides the apple device which was mentioned is using a plain Intel Xeon CPU which has the same architecture as the Intel Core line of CPUs. The performance is the same. If you pick your components wisely you can build yourself a machine with way more than 32 cores for a fraction of the mentioned 27.000$ using the AMD Epcy platform. And no this is not pc grade hardware. |
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![]() Servers aren't workstations, either.
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![]() They do however share most of the hardware components.
Workstation, Servers thats just ways of using hardware. You have to look at the big picture here about which components are being used. It doesnt matter if you are using for example a Core-i9 CPU, An Intel Xeon W or an Intel Xeon Platinum CPU. They are all based on the same architecture. The only major difference is that Xeon platforms offer support for ECC memory and have more memory channels. Even the most expensive Xeon has the same FPU units, the same support for stuff like AVX, SSE2 etc as the plain consumer versions. And if both are clocked the same speed you wouldnt notice any difference during rendering. |
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![]() Heres some additional information on the subject.
I just found an interesting article on AnandTech about recommended CPUs and platforms for workstations. This is really an interesting read. Click ![]() As mentioned before the terms "consumer platform, workstation, server" dont mean a lot when you look at the components being used in these machines. Consider this the iMacPro is advertised as a workstation but its using a server grade Intel Xeon CPU. Heres a screenshot directly from the Intel Product page. ![]() Further this Intel Xeon W-2150B 10 core CPU inside the iMacPro workstation is based on the Skylake microarchitecture which is the same one being used in the IntelCore i9-7900X 10 core CPU. The only difference is added ECC memory support for the Xeon. One is a server product the other a desktop product, yet they deliver the same performance. So whats a server, workstation, desktop pc? Is it what brands like Apple say it is? No it depends on what you put in it ,if you are assemble it yourself. These days the boundaries between all of these categories is rather fluid and the reason why it doesnt make sense to limit oneself to these. Btw heres some other thing to consider when owning an iMacPro. Apple refused to fix an iMacPro |
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