Apologies for this slight digression into the benefits of 2012-2014 generation Zseries workstations but the final good points about them is that they're built like tanks with top drawer components so they’re less risk than many other second hand purchases. The total cost for my three Zseries workstations was under £2k (GPU’s on top) so that’s a heap of processing power for the budget (96 threads running at 3.1 Ghz). And E5-6670’s are incredibly efficient too so running costs are very favourable for typical Houdini/ICE CPU simulations. Although running 9 GPU’s across three workstations for rendering chews through the juice.
So back to the original point of the iMac Pro. There are far better ways to spend your cash! :) > On 6 Jun 2017, at 20:21, Jonathan Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > > <PastedGraphic-1.tiff> > As you can see plenty of PCIe Gen3 x16 and x8’s as long as you go for a dual > processes build. > > Dual E5-2670 based systems won’t best a latest & greatest i7 for GPU > rendering but if you pick up a system (or preferably multiple systems) at the > right price, you’re get something that performs well both on CPU simulations > and on GPU rendering duties. > > http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04400043.pdf > <http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04400043.pdf> > > >> On 6 Jun 2017, at 20:05, Ognjen Vukovic <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> I thought those z workstations had pretty old mobos. They only had pcie 2 >> slots. And at 8x or somthing like that which seems quite unremarkable for >> gpu rendering. ------ >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> with "unsubscribe" in the >> subject, and reply to confirm. >
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