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Best CPU (and or GPU) for rendering

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I was wondering if the new Ryzen TR 3990x would be good for rendering high quality images and 3D rendering in general. Right now I have a TR 2990WX and a 2080 but since it's my job basically, I want to upgrade to get shorter render times. The 3990x is pretty much within my budget. Would a better GPU affect anything? The software I currently use is Autodesk Maya 2019.

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What renderer do you use? That matters the most here. If you use vray RT, getting as many GPUs as possible would be more beneficial than upgrading the CPU. I'd say you'd want as many RTX 2080s as you can cram into the PC (2080 Ti isn't worth it from a rendering standpoint). Alternatively, getting used 1080 Tis works as well (all rendering software cares about is VRAM and lots of CUDA cores).

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Maya does not utilize multiple GPUs for viewport and itself is just a big CPU benchmark, so if the renderer is CPU based then there's no need for better GPUs

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56 minutes ago, DahPython said:

Not sure how to check that, all I know is that Maya uses arnold renderer.

Yeah, it all depends on what renderer you choose. There's Arnold software renderer and Arnold GPU renderer as well. Generally, the GPU renderers don't support all the features of the software renderer, but if you can live with that, GPUs are far quicker and cheaper than CPUs for rendering.

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5 hours ago, DahPython said:

I was wondering if the new Ryzen TR 3990x would be good for rendering high quality images and 3D rendering in general. Right now I have a TR 2990WX and a 2080 but since it's my job basically, I want to upgrade to get shorter render times. The 3990x is pretty much within my budget. Would a better GPU affect anything? The software I currently use is Autodesk Maya 2019.

AMD is generally better for "creative work", but any Quadro will beat an MAD card easily. Linus has a video about which cards to use for a workstation. Go watch it.

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