Intel 8 Core

[ComputerGeek]

Ivy Bridge-E will have some minor microarchitectural tweaks (so you'll see ~6% IPC gain), but the main thing on the LGA 2011 side is that you'll start seeing > 8 cores (on the 2P platform, 10C/20T or 12C/24T are very likely).

However, if you're just looking for a beast rendering workstation that you just want to "set and forget" for several years, I'd have no problems just recommending a pair of Westmere-EP 6C/12T chips and just rocking them.

The 8C/16T Sandy Bridge-EP chips will be very expensive if you're looking for the higher clocked ones anyway, so...yeah.

But there are already >8 core on a 2p system all three of these 1567 chips are for 2p systems and have 10 cores E7-2870, E7-2860, E7-2850,

 

[drescherjm]

But there are already >8 core on a 2p system all three of these 1567 chips are for 2p systems and have 10 cores E7-2870, E7-2860, E7-2850,

Those are very expensive and also are clocked around 1GHz less than what an 8 core IB-E will be.