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We have spent a lot of time online trying to determine if we should purchase an iMac 5K or a Mac pro 3.5Ghz for our Cinema 4D application. (AKA - C4D)
When trying to determine the best hardware choice for 3D it becomes so clouded online and we are good users with a high understanding of hardware. But honestly speaking we cannot find a definitive answer for our requirement.
We now understand that the Mac Pro is very good and that the CPU and GPU's can be utilised for general CPU processing - but only when the application has been coded to do this. Cannot see that C4D has??
Other 3D applications appear to have different requirements, with some the importance is with the speed of the CPU and not always the number of cores.
Also the Dual GPU's on the MAC PRO are not paired or 'Cross Fire' enabled - which we find completely strange...but yet to find out why they have not. Perhaps because of this CPU and GPU capability?
We are looking for a comparison/application chart showing out of the 3 below which is best [presently] for each of the mainstream 3D applications.
OPTION 1 - iMac 27 5K with i5 (& i7 4.0Ghz Processor) 8Gb RAM (& 16Gb RAM)
OPTION 2 - Mac Pro Quad Core 3.7Ghz 12Gb RAM (& 16Gb to compare CPU 4 vs 6 core), 256 Gb SSD
OPTION 3 - Mac Pro Six Core 3.5Ghz, 16Gb RAM, 512Gb SSD
What would be even better is if somebody could show performance variations with adding the various upgrades to show upgrade 'worth' for each of the OPTIONs.
Spending money on OPTION 1 upgrades brings closer to OPTION 2 etc., but are the upgrades only marginal so that it makes sense to purchase or not?
Then compare the same 16Gb RAM value across all 3 then see the net effect of each CPU choice for each 3D application.
Hopefully you get my point, because we all love the idea of upgrades, but nobody shows the real-world difference these make in benchmarks.
And then from this we hope to make a decision which of the 3 hardware solutions to purchase to enable us to get on with using our 1000 3D Car models for our various requirements.
Can anybody help?
When trying to determine the best hardware choice for 3D it becomes so clouded online and we are good users with a high understanding of hardware. But honestly speaking we cannot find a definitive answer for our requirement.
We now understand that the Mac Pro is very good and that the CPU and GPU's can be utilised for general CPU processing - but only when the application has been coded to do this. Cannot see that C4D has??
Other 3D applications appear to have different requirements, with some the importance is with the speed of the CPU and not always the number of cores.
Also the Dual GPU's on the MAC PRO are not paired or 'Cross Fire' enabled - which we find completely strange...but yet to find out why they have not. Perhaps because of this CPU and GPU capability?
We are looking for a comparison/application chart showing out of the 3 below which is best [presently] for each of the mainstream 3D applications.
OPTION 1 - iMac 27 5K with i5 (& i7 4.0Ghz Processor) 8Gb RAM (& 16Gb RAM)
OPTION 2 - Mac Pro Quad Core 3.7Ghz 12Gb RAM (& 16Gb to compare CPU 4 vs 6 core), 256 Gb SSD
OPTION 3 - Mac Pro Six Core 3.5Ghz, 16Gb RAM, 512Gb SSD
What would be even better is if somebody could show performance variations with adding the various upgrades to show upgrade 'worth' for each of the OPTIONs.
Spending money on OPTION 1 upgrades brings closer to OPTION 2 etc., but are the upgrades only marginal so that it makes sense to purchase or not?
Then compare the same 16Gb RAM value across all 3 then see the net effect of each CPU choice for each 3D application.
Hopefully you get my point, because we all love the idea of upgrades, but nobody shows the real-world difference these make in benchmarks.
And then from this we hope to make a decision which of the 3 hardware solutions to purchase to enable us to get on with using our 1000 3D Car models for our various requirements.
Can anybody help?