Ideal Workstation Specs

[GaboM5]

Hi Everyone,

I've been requested by the company where I work, to assemble/buy a Workstation with a sufficient capacity to finish a render under an hour. Renders that usually take 5-18 hrs. in my current PC.

I work with some big 3D models from auditoriums, buildings and houses. with lots of textures, colors, complex 3D meshes and geometry for sofas, cushions, proxies for plants, and lots and lots of vray ies lights. We usually render from 1920*1080 to 4K at a mid to high resolution.

The softwares that I use are AutoCAD, 3DsMax, Rhino, SketchUP, Vray and Photoshop.

So the question is, what are the ideal Processor and GPU for the workstation?

I was thinking about a Xeon with 6 to 12 cores (24 Threaded) and a Nvidia Quadro with a minimun of 4 Gb. But the IT guys have no idea about Rendering requirements and they are the ones who are gone purchase the PC components, so they are asking for how many MB of Cache and what kind of GHz Speed, I have no idea what processor to choose nor what kind of GPU for the RT rendering.

Budget is around $10,000 - $15,000 USD for CPU ONLY.
Monitors and others components have a limit of $10,000 USD.

Any suggestion would be of a lot of help.

Please give an explanation for the components you are choosing.

Thanks!!!

[kokoriko17]

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=322%26amp;t=63373

If you really have a lot of cash to burn, Xeon Processor E7-8890 is the fastest to date.

Cheers...