AMD Ryzen CPUs / Rendering

HornOxx · 1 Jul 2017, 20:11

Hi All
I’m glad that there returned some little movement into the CPU market again, since AMD came back
with it´s Ryzen CPUs. In addition to a more moderate pricing, their performance also seems to be very promising as well (for example: AMD Ryzen 7 1800x (8 Cores, 16 Threads / 3.6GHz)).

Since the performance of various render tools (such as Shaderlight or Render[IN] for example) is depending on CPU speed and it´s number of cores also of course, I wonder if someone has made any experiences with these AMD CPUs so far?

solo · 1 Jul 2017, 20:17

Best thing I bought in a while, Got the Ryzen 1800x and 2x 1080ti GPU's, kicking ass.

I use Thea for rendering so I get to use both GPU's and 16 Threads together, super fast.

HornOxx · 1 Jul 2017, 20:28

Thanks Solo

@solo said:

... kicking ass ...
sonds funny and must mean super fast so

I didn´t even know that you can run both systems together

kimi kimi · 2 Jul 2017, 23:04

Please, please, please make some proper tutorials for Thea.

stefanq · 16 Jul 2017, 18:26

I suspect Solo to be a gamer who spam this forum, for awhile. Now I'm sure!

HornOxx · 16 Sept 2017, 16:16

Hi All
meanwhile the first (and only?) notebook (Asus ROG GL702ZC) is on the market, which is fired by an AMD Ryzen7 CPU - I think, that 8 cores (16 threads) should a solid basis for all SkUp tasks and rendering? Besides the AMD CPU also the GPU is an AMD model of course: AMD Radeon RX580 graphics.
Here are some further informations about the Notebook I´m talking about
https://www.asus.com/Laptops/ROG-Strix-GL702ZC/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4ZP6k9ThoY
What do you think about it - are there any problems to be expected with AMD, especially regarding the GPU? I look forward to any experience or opinion from you

PS: my previous notebook seems to have stopped working, I hope that it is the power supply only but I fear that a new purchase is more likely

solo · 16 Sept 2017, 18:59

My only concern is how the AMD GPU plays with SU and if you are using any GPU based render engines that only work off Nvidia's CUDA based GPU's.

solo · 16 Sept 2017, 19:00

@stefanq said:

I suspect Solo to be a gamer who spam this forum, for awhile. Now I'm sure!

Not a single game on any of my machines, who has time to play?