Please help with CPU choice AMD vs INTEL for render?
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I'm thinking to change my pc, but I'm not willing to invest huge amounts of money, yet get something better than I have.
For intel, the obvious choice would be i7 over 3GHz, but I am also thinking to AMD as it's cheaper (both cpu and mb). The question is if it's worth to buy amd if the machine will be used for rendering. And, which amd would you recommend ?
Thanks.
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http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=50066
If you really want to buy cheap, then take AMD. But i wouldn't recommend it, because the single thread performance is much worse for the AMD chips. On the long run with only multi core operations it might be ok. But also for rendering there are phases which are only single threaded. And Sketchup in any case... for now.
And the AMD CPUs have a higher power consumption...So i would say take an i7 3770K (or without K if you don't plan to overclock it) - or if you don't need it now, wait a few months (June) for Haswell (~10-15% faster than Ivy Bridge, new architecture, new socket)
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Thank you! You made it clear for me.
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I would look at GPU rendering rather than CPU based. Only so much you can do now days with CPU rendering.
Personally I would opt for a Nividia GTX Cuda enabled card. I have the GTX 980 but you can get a cheaper card that does an amazon job. Stay away from AMD!!
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@liam887 said:
I would look at GPU rendering rather than CPU based. Only so much you can do now days with CPU rendering.
Personally I would opt for a Nividia GTX Cuda enabled card. I have the GTX 980 but you can get a cheaper card that does an amazon job. Stay away from AMD!!
But this common rendering engines as KT/Twilight/Thea/ (or others) are specialized to use CUDA ? I know there are some used for dynamic lighting and real-time rendering, but I'm not using such software...
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@unknownuser said:
@liam887 said:
I would look at GPU rendering rather than CPU based. Only so much you can do now days with CPU rendering.
Personally I would opt for a Nividia GTX Cuda enabled card. I have the GTX 980 but you can get a cheaper card that does an amazon job. Stay away from AMD!!
But this common rendering engines as KT/Twilight/Thea/ (or others) are specialized to use CUDA ? I know there are some used for dynamic lighting and real-time rendering, but I'm not using such software...
Thea will have GPU rendering relatively soon (most likely with the next revision). As it's CUDA based, a nvidia card with as much ram as possible is needed. I'd pick some 6xx with 4GB RAM (also 5xx card will do). Naturally Thea will continue to work just fine with CPU too.
About AMD vs Intel, with heavy multithreading AMD FX-8350 is somewhere between Core i7 2600K and 3770K from Intel (based on multiple reviews, note. with some reviews it's between Intel Core i5 2500K and i7 2600K), so it's possible that will FX-8350 give more bang for buck, when used in rendering (multithreaded).
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