Best CPU for graphics rendering

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slugger_2003

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Hi all,

So at the moment, what's the best CPU for graphics rendering in terms of best possible CPU and also best 'bang for buck'? The CPU would theoretically live in a unit which would be part of a farm of PC's that would be exactly the same all used to render graphics animation art.

Thanks all :)
 
slugger_2003 said:
Hi all,

So at the moment, what's the best CPU for graphics rendering in terms of best possible CPU and also best 'bang for buck'? The CPU would theoretically live in a unit which would be part of a farm of PC's that would be exactly the same all used to render graphics animation art.

Thanks all :)
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Best readily available consumer CPU for rendering: i7 965
Best bang for buck: Q6600 or i7 920

I expect this will be quite hotly debated though...

edit: If you get a system based on one of the i7 Nehalem CPUs you should be able to drop in the octo-core Nehalems when they are released (I'm unsure on this though, so I'd wait for someone else to confirm or deny it).
 
I heard the i7 920 was great for rendering and the price isn't that bad either.
 
http://www.guru3d.com/article/intel-core-i7-920-and-965-review/15
Look at the first bench, "CPU-Bound 3D Rendering" using Kribi. They got in the 12's with the i7's.

FYI, my X2 6000+ got mid 4's when I ran those same tests. I found out later that dnetc (even at 0 priority) seems to slow it down a little, so that may be a tad lower than it should be. I would've retested it, but I already sold the system. My i7 920 with HT disabled matches what they say in the text (9's).
 
if you are aiming for a certain throughput remember, the weaker the cpu you buy the more total systems required... so more $ power snd heat. Sometimes faster cpu is better if it means less mobos, cases, etc. Especially with intels god awful motherboard prices.
 
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