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Progress and CPU's
🕑 Added 2020-03-06 23:10:24 +0000 UTCHello all...
All of the keyframe animation on Talia is done except for facial animation. Time to do the sim stuff.
I've been looking at my options for increasing my rendering speeds.
One option is to get the fastest CPU available for my current motherboard.. $250 and I would render about 65% faster.
Another option would be to get a whole new computer. I've been looking at the Ryzen 9 3900X.. This would go almost 3x the speed of my current machine, and I can also render on my current machine with it, so I would effectively render four times faster. The price would be somewhere around $1000 if I get a super cheap GPU for it.
i7-4930K (Current CPU)
Cinebench R15 Single 139 - Cinebench R15 Multi 1064
PassMark 13150
Ryzen 9 3900X
Cinebench R15 Single 221 - Cinebench R15 Multi 3168
PassMark 31947
Another even more expensive (but faster) option is to go GPU rendering instead of CPU rendering. The software is $699 and then I'd need to buy a fast GPU like a Titan..The more GPUs I get the faster it goes.
EDIT: I'm thinking a more practical approach would be to build a new computer with a cheaper CPU to start with... Like a Ryzen 5 2600.. This is about the same speed of my current CPU and this would double my rendering speed with both machines running together. Then I can later get the Ryzen 9 3900X when I can afford it and swap the CPUs. This would be roughly a $700 starting point.
I'd be interested in any comments you have about CPUs and such.
Comments
CGMan
If I want to see what I'm doing. I was thinking a cheapo $30 GPU.
RocketNowWow
Do you really need a GPU at all if you can just call the renderer from the command line though?
CGMan
If I upgrade my CPU I won't need a new GPU. If I build a new computer I will need a new GPU... But it would not need to be fast if it is just a CPU rendering machine. I will still do all of my animating on my current machine.
RocketNowWow
Definitely some AMD Ryzen or ThreadRipper if you want to stick to CPU rendering. If you pay up the nose you can even have 128 cores!!! Titan's aren't that much faster btw, they just have more VRAM which can be a big factor in rendering particularly if the render doesn't support CUDA unified memory. Even a good last gen card like a 1080TI would be faster than CPU rendering though. So if you can find a cheap 1080TI or such that might be the better option. Why do you need a new GPU if you upgrade your CPU though? PCI Express is backwards compatible so you could use the same GPU from your old computer even if its older than 2011?
