Processor based software?

[Ands43]

Sketchup I think uses the processor to do its thing, are most design packages (adobe, 3ds, vray) processor based or do any of them use the multi cores ?

Reason - I'm thinking of buying a new mac or possibly PC.

Thanks Andy

[sketch3d.de]

multiple cores are typically used for calculations which can be spread over several parallel threads as e.g. rendering scenes by slicing the resulting raster image, modeling operations are often of a serial nature with each operation depending on the step before and therefore cannot make use of multiple cores.

Spatial (a Dassault company) has some multi-threading functionality implemented for their NURBS modeling kernel ACIS already.

buy a high-clocked intel Core i7-4770 with a decent = dedicated video card (nVidia GeForce GTX series) and you're fine.

Norbert

[numerobis]

an intel core i7-4790K will give you the highest possible single core performance without overclocking today: 4,4GHz ...and an all core turbo of 4,2GHz.