You guys may want to do your research by visiting credible sites and reading up on individual’s real world experiences with these things. an i7 3930k, and based of CPU benchmarks it would require 2 $500 Xeons to get the same speed as the single i7 I had done a comparison a while back, from the Xeons Vs. GTX 980’s are notoriously cheap compared to their predecessors Honestly, just save money where you can on CPU and go for a monster GPU instead. (Good luck getting 6 cores stable at 3.3-4.0 Ghz though :p). Given a choice, I’d take the i7, unless you’re going to overclock the Xeon to similar speeds.
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In fact my home PC is actually faster for rendering applications too, like Maya and Max, but that could be a number of factors contributing to that. In real terms, I honestly don’t think the Xeon out performs the i7 at all. My Work PC tends to throw data around much quicker than my home PC, but my home PC actually processes it faster. I could do a CPU test in-engine I suppose. My Work PC certainly throws data around faster than my home PC, it can certainly load textures into memory much quicker, but for actual processing I’d say my i7 is faster. I also use Quad-Channel 1600Mhz Memory at home. GPU performance is (as expected) utterly mental at home, but sucks in work. It’s kind of hard to test performance because my GPU in work is a bloody Quadro K4000 (don’t ask), whereas at home I have a GTX 980. I have a 6-core (12 thread) Xeon at work. Heck, for things like lightmass, you can just setup up one or two cheap additional boxes to act as part of a swarm anyway Personally, I don’t feel like the potential extra performance boost here and there is really worth the colossal extra investment. This is an additional cost over the top of an already expensive processor that cannot be avoided, since you’ll not be getting any benefit from it. You’d want plenty of fast memory and a motherboard that supports it, with plenty of bandwidth.
There is a caveat though - if you want to make use of the benefits provided by the Xeon, you need to build the system to support it.
The Xeon’ are also much more stable / reliable, but this is less of an issue since we’re probablt not really doing anything like protracted hardcore data analysis. Xeons are also generally better at handling multi-threaded applications, so you may additionally gain some mileage there. That bandwidth difference can be massive when performing operations like building lighting on a large, complex scene, since a typical i7 has two memory channels and around 25GB/s of bandwidth, compare to a typical Xeon which has four or more memory channels and at least double the bandwidth as a result. The biggest advantage of the Xeons are that they can support more memory and memory bandwidth than the i7s.
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