looking for a 3d rendering cpu

[ladiesman8116]

what will be the best configuration for ZOTAC NVIDIA GTX 750TI 2 GB GDDR5 Graphics Card???

 

[Hlsgsz]

Get a second hand Xeon E5 2670 from ebay liek this

and a MB to fit it.
Fro 60, you can even grab two and a dual MB

 

[k1114]

Most 3d renderers are actually cpu based but need to know to make sure.

 

[k1114]

Well of course gpu is faster but you can't just switch. Most do not come with a gpu renderer and have to buy a 3rd party renderer. So normally you can't. Max and blender are about the only ones that do come with them.

 

[marko55]

More cores the better from what I've heard. Seems back in the day a GPU was more important but more current apps are leaning toward CPU usage, and multi-core usage at that.

 

[Hlsgsz]

More cores the better from what I've heard. Seems back in the day a GPU was more important but more current apps are leaning toward CPU usage, and multi-core usage at that.

A renderer that levereages CUDA cores for example would be faster, but this is not teh case with a 750 ti. This GPU will accelerate transformations, zoom and whatnot while you are working in teh program, but the actual rendering of the scene would be alot better handled by one or two of those xeons i linked.

 

[k1114]

There is too much mixing up of info going on and we don't even know if a gpu or cpu renderer is being used. You cannot make an informed suggestion without knowing and anything posted may not even be relevant.

Gpu acceleration was not used at all back in the day. Everything was on cpu and there were no gpu renderers at all. Do not confuse this with viewports. There was no cuda or opencl and gpgpu had very limited uses. Gpu rendering came about with stream processors which could do more than separate pixel and vertex shaders. Gpu rendering is still not widely used for 3d rendering but is gaining ground because it's a lot faster.

The gpu does not accelerate transformations and whatnot. This is not video editing. The cpu is handling all transformations in modeling and the gpu is handling the viewports. You can even say zoom is on the cpu because the camera is controlled by the cpu. The gpu is just responding to the change in graphics drawcalls. It's not going to be better handled by a cpu vs a gpu and it's going to use whatever the renderer is programmed to use.

 

[Albionm00n]

I can see it has been a few weeks since the last post here, so maybe this thread is done, but I agree with k1114.

Unless you are using programs that have CUDA support, the rendering will be on the cpu. 3DS Max is one of these I believe.

More info please? Are you looking to simply swap in a new cpu into an existing system? Looking to build a new system around the gpu for your purposes? Budget? Programs?

Any and all answers to these questions will definitely retain focus on your best solution🙂