Nuno Luis

Finally got my PC: i7 5960x with Noctua D14 SE2011 Asus X99 Pro USB 3.1 Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 Mhz CL14 32GB Kit x2 Kingston V300 240GB Sata III Western Digital 500GB SATA III 64MB Green Asus GTX960 Turbo OC 2GB GDDR5 XFX Modular Pro Edition XXX 850W Win 10 Pro Still have to run some Vray rendering tests, but for now I think I can make it stable between 3.9 to 4.3Ghz with 1650 ish scores in Cinebench R15. There's room for improvement in GPU performance if I decide to/afford to later on.

Thanks for the feedback Sonny, I've been checking some cinebench scores a few weeks ago. What I see from http://www.cinebench.info is these screenshots: Dual Xeon's E5-2620 v3: score 1553 [almost 18% faster] i7 5960x: score 1318 [only 3% faster!] i7 5820k: score 1275 So, the dual Xeon setup has a clear advantage (in benchmark). And, the 5820k is almost touching the 5960x. The only concern is that cinebench renders a not so complex scene that is relatively fast comparatively to real vray cpu rendering still images that take hours to complete. So if a 5960x is only 3% faster by cinebench scores then the results pretty speak for themselves. On the other hand, if we look to cpu-monkey.com the scores are far more apart from this previous conclusion: 5960x [on Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)] scores 13.18 [almost 20% faster than 5820k] 5820k [on Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)] scores 11.05 E5-2620 V3 [on Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)] scores 9.1 - which would double to 18.2 ??? [that would be 38% faster than 5960x??] Or 5960x [on Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)] scores 1360 [25% faster] 5820k [on Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)] scores 1085 E5-2620 V3 [on Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)] scores 894 - which would double to 1788? [meaning 31% faster than 5960x] I know that these CPU's ain't that far appart regarding performance, but money doesn't grow in the trees these days. Just need the best bang for the buck. I think i'll just settle for the 5960x: they are readily available, are much more future proof, and i'm leaving the option opened for Vray RT down the line with a GTX970 that can be coupled latter IF I'd get a real performance increase using SLI. Better still, I think I could overclock the 5960x to 4.3 to 4.4Ghz easily using Asus software. Any sense? PS: Sorry, but I think my posts are being moderated so there's a quite significant delay between my posts.

Sorry for double posting this thread. I've already tried to build the Xeon setup, but I hit an obstacle and couldn't get the mobo and the RAM ECC Reg is considerably more expensive in my country. So now I am ditching Xeons and considering instead an i7 processor. But my doubt is whether to get the 5820k or go with the 5960x. If the extra cores/threads really make a difference in, let's say a 8h to 15h CPU render (in a 5820k) would it be somewhat faster in a 5960x??? Thanks.

I desperatly need to buy a new workstation as soon as possible. My upmost and first concern is Vray CPU based rendering speed so I figure that a setup with dual Xeon E5-2620v3 (what I can buy for my budget) would beat the heck over a i7 5820k in rendering times. Is this true? Or i am totally wrong? This new workstation would be mainly for renderings in Vray, because i have a laptop which i'm using to work on AutoCAD and 3Ds Max. My laptop is an Asus G75. The specs: Intel Core i7-3630QM 2.4GHz Intel Turbo rated @ 3.4Ghz 32GB DDR3 1600MHz SSD 256GB SATA 6Gb/s + 750GB SATA 7200rpm GeForce GTX670MX 3GB GDDR5 @ 1920x1080 (I tried Vray RT with Cuda and it sucked in speed or quality) For the purpose of best bang for the buck in VRay CPU rendering performance solely I made two totally different configurations: 1# Dual Xeon config Asus Z10PE-D8 WS 2x Intel Xeon E5-2620 V3 2.4GHz Intel Turbo 3.2 Ghz 15MB L3 (6c/12t) (24 threads in total) 2x Cooler Master Hyper103 for CPU cooling Kingston HyperX Savage DDR3-2133MHz 8GB (x2) (I think that might be a problem here regarding memory bandwith) SSD Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB - SATA III (6Gb/s) - 450MB/s (SATA III) Write/Read PNY Quadro K620 2GB GDDR3 PCI-e (If a Geforce would offer me a better performance in 3dsmax viewport/AutoCAD with the same budget I would definately go for that, but still in doubt) Corsair Builder CX500W PSU 2# Single i7 config MSI X99A SLI PLUS/USB 3.1 Intel i7 5820k 3.3 Ghz Intel Turbo rated @ 3.6 Ghz 15MB L3 (6c/12threads) (would a faster i7 5930k or even a i7 5960k(8c/16t) be faster in CPU rendering than my Xeon config?) G.Skill Kit 16GB DDR4 3000Mhz Ripjaws 4 Red Cooler Master Hyper103 for CPU cooling (maybe here i would go for liquid cooling instead) SSD Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB - SATA III (6Gb/s) - 450MB/s (SATA III) Write/Read PNY Quadro K620 2GB GDDR3 PCI-e or PNY nVidia Quadro K2200 4GB DDR5 (if there is a difference in performance) Corsair Builder CX500W PSU I don't think that, for now, i would go for Vray RT, because I need noise free high quality renderings in 1080p or 720p still images. Also i don't make any kind of animation renderings in Vray or video editing of any sort.

Hi people! My name is Nuno. What a great place for Archviz discussion. Finished my studies in architecture about two years ago and I use AutoCAD for modeling, 3ds Max for composing, and Vray for rendering. Adobe Ps for production and other magical tricks for other little things. I hope to find great and good advice from very experienced people and professionals here at Cgarchitect. Salute to all!

I desperatly need to buy a new workstation as soon as possible. My upmost and first concern is Vray CPU based rendering speed so I figure that a setup with dual Xeon E5-2620v3 (what I can buy for my budget) would beat the heck over a i7 5820k in rendering times. Is this true? Or i am totally wrong? This new workstation would be mainly for renderings in Vray, because i have a laptop which i'm using to work on AutoCAD and 3Ds Max. My laptop is an Asus G75. The specs: Intel Core i7-3630QM 2.4GHz Intel Turbo rated @ 3.4Ghz 32GB DDR3 1600MHz SSD 256GB SATA 6Gb/s + 750GB SATA 7200rpm GeForce GTX670MX 3GB GDDR5 @ 1920x1080 (I tried Vray RT with Cuda and it sucked in speed or quality) For the purpose of best bang for the buck in Vray CPU rendering performance solely I made two totally different configurations: 1# Dual Xeon config Asus Z10PE-D8 WS 2x Intel Xeon E5-2620 V3 2.4GHz Intel Turbo 3.2 Ghz 15MB L3 (6c/12t) (24 threads in total) 2x Cooler Master Hyper103 for CPU cooling Kingston HyperX Savage DDR3-2133MHz 8GB (x2) (I think that might be a problem here regarding memory bandwith) SSD Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB - SATA III (6Gb/s) - 450MB/s (SATA III) Write/Read PNY Quadro K620 2GB GDDR3 PCI-e (If a Geforce would offer me a better performance in 3dsmax viewport/AutoCAD with the same budget I would definately go for that, but still in doubt) Corsair Builder CX500W PSU 2# Single i7 config MSI X99A SLI PLUS/USB 3.1 Intel i7 5820k 3.3 Ghz Intel Turbo rated @ 3.6 Ghz 15MB L3 (6c/12threads) (would a faster i7 5930k or even a i7 5960k(8c/16t) be faster in CPU rendering than my Xeon config?) G.Skill Kit 16GB DDR4 3000Mhz Ripjaws 4 Red Cooler Master Hyper103 for CPU cooling (maybe here i would go for liquid cooling instead) SSD Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB - SATA III (6Gb/s) - 450MB/s (SATA III) Write/Read PNY Quadro K620 2GB GDDR3 PCI-e or PNY nVidia Quadro K2200 4GB DDR5 (if there is a difference in performance) Corsair Builder CX500W PSU I don't think that, for now, i would go for Vray RT, because I need noise free high quality renderings in 1080p or 720p still images. Also i don't make any kind of animation renderings in Vray or video editing of any sort.