JoOngle

I loved it...and I so badly wanted one ... ...Untill I saw the price tag in Sweden, and the fact that it ONLY comes with 16 GB ram as the ONLY option available - in ALL the stores. And with the 16 GB ram model only, the 1 TB NVMe version cost a whopping 5722 CAD (That's 39.000 Swedish Krona) , and nowhere near 3000$. Yikes. Better sell that kidney.

Right. Blender 2.8x is the only Blender version that lets you select both the Threadripper (any cpu I bet) and GPU as render preferences in user settings. You still have to set it to GPU rendering though, unless they've removed that setting now (it's still in beta). Still, you'd do the right thing by setting the tile size to your CPU/GPU's performance. I found that 32 x 32 and 16 x 16 tend to produce the fastest results. After all - a benchmark is about how much juice we can squeeze out of our computers, and as our setup varies, so does our variables. The math stays the same.

I don't know how I managed to post my suggestion in the wrong sleeper thread, since I didn't even search. but here it goes, with the dangers of doubleposting: I'm curious to what settings you used in Blender with the BMW benchmarking test, did you just Download it, run it by pressing F12 and go? Or did you tweak the settings to optimize for your Workstation build? If not, you should. I get a benchmark result of 42.90 Seconds on the BMW (gpu) test, with a Zenith Extreme Motherboard with a 16 core (1950x) Threadripper, and watercooling, no overclocking, with an Asus 1080ti Strix OC edition. But I fully expect your rig to be able to get at least 40% more performance than mine. At 120 - that seems a bit underwhelming to me for a rig like that, try setting the Render Tiles settings to x 16 and y 16 instead of the default 256. This would optimize the render performance for your particular GPU. Also go to preferences and enable both GPU and CPU for rendering. Use Blender 2.8 Beta for this. please post your results, I'm sure we're quite a lot of people out there that's curious about the results.

Hi There. I removed this message, as I posted in an too old thread, please see the NEW Sleeper PC thread for the question.