5820K for rendering?

[SteinerW]

Its kind of a simple question that would be obvious to me if not for the fact that it's a 32 bit rendering engine.... AKA Source.

 

My question is would the extra 2 cores/4 threads be worth it for rendering maps? Renders can take up to a week for me even on my Xeon which has 8 threads... Would I see a signifigent time save?

[blainster]

I would choose the mouse because I've been using an old Logitech one from like 2004 or so. lol Not my first choice but the only one I had readily available at the time.

[N_Bot]

1 minute ago, 3DGamerOnSteam said:

Its kind of a simple question that would be obvious to me if not for the fact that it's a 32 bit rendering engine.... AKA Source.

 

My question is would the extra 2 cores/4 threads be worth it for rendering maps? Renders can take up to a week for me even on my Xeon which has 8 threads... Would I see a signifigent time save?

Yes threads are very helpful for rendering. Look at an i5-4690k vs i7-4790k: equal for gaming but for rendering and video editing i7 is way ahead of i5. The extra threads are worth it.

[N_Bot]

Just now, blainster said:

I would choose the mouse because I've been using an old Logitech one from like 2004 or so. lol Not my first choice but the only one I had readily available at the time.

I think you're posting on the wrong thread, sir.

[aeroencychris]

Just now, N_Bot said:

Yes threads are very helpful for rendering. Look at an i5-4690k vs i7-4790k: equal for gaming but for rendering and video editing i7 is way ahead of i5. The extra threads are worth it.

Definitely go for the 4790k so you can get 8 threads with hyperthreading

[SteinerW]

Just now, cdsboy2000 said:

Definitely go for the 4790k so you can get 8 threads with hyperthreading

I alread have an 8 thread xeon....

[i_build_nanosuits]

1 minute ago, 3DGamerOnSteam said:

I alread have an 8 thread xeon....

yeah but what gen is it?! and what clockspeed does it run at?

if you take this 12 threads haswell-E i7-5820K chip and overclock to 4ghz+ it should be pretty darn fast...

[aeroencychris]

Just now, 3DGamerOnSteam said:

I alread have an 8 thread xeon....

I'm just saying that between those two the i7 is significantly better. What do you have now?

[i_build_nanosuits]

Just now, cdsboy2000 said:

I'm just saying that between those two the i7 is significantly better. What do you have now?

it's in is signature...i missed it as well..he as the E3-1241 V3...so the haswell-E i7-5820K would be roughly 50% faster it having 50% more threads/cores

but the i7-5820K you can overclock it and get even more...so probably shorter rendering times by around 60 to 75% is achievable versus current xeon he has.

[SteinerW]

1 minute ago, cdsboy2000 said:

I'm just saying that between those two the i7 is significantly better. What do you have now?

E3 1241 v3, haswell chip at about 4 ghz

[SteinerW]

I should add that I was going to upgrade my cpu and motherboard anyway... I was going to get an 4790K, but if the extra 4 threads is worth it, I'll spent the extra 100ish dollars for new memory and better CPU

[PlayStation 2]

The Source engine can barely take advantage of one thread properly, much less twelve.

[SteinerW]

1 minute ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

The Source engine can barely take advantage of one thread properly, much less twelve.

Task manager says all 8 are at 100%, thats why I ask if its worth the upgrade.

[i_build_nanosuits]

 

3 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

The Source engine can barely take advantage of one thread properly, much less twelve.

lol

this is an arcticle from 2006

http://techreport.com/review/11237/valve-source-engine-goes-multi-core

[PlayStation 2]

Just now, i_build_nanosuits said:

 

lol

this is an arcticle from 2006

http://techreport.com/review/11237/valve-source-engine-goes-multi-core

It's 2016 and Team Fortress 2 has yet to take advantage of more than one core properly.

[i_build_nanosuits]

11 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

It's 2016 and Team Fortress 2 has yet to take advantage of more than one core properly.

yeah but OP is RENDERING MAPS in the Source engine...not playing team fortress 2?! and also...Fallout 4 is source engine and it's greatly multi-threaded.

[runit3]

11 hours ago, 3DGamerOnSteam said:

Task manager says all 8 are at 100%, thats why I ask if its worth the upgrade.

If you could provide me with a sample file for rendering and a link to whatever program you're using I'd be happy to run a test render and report the time. Could adjust -25% for the lower core/thread count, or just disable 2 of my cores, depending on program scaling (I doubt it's true 1:1).

[PlayStation 2]

37 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

yeah but OP is RENDERING MAPS in the Source engine...not playing team fortress 2?! and also...Fallout 4 is source engine and it's greatly multi-threaded.

Fallout 4 isn't on the Source engine.

Fallout 4's on whatever engine Bethesda used for Fallout 3/New Vegas, except optimized "better".

[i_build_nanosuits]

3 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Fallout 4 isn't on the Source engine.

Fallout 4's on whatever engine Bethesda used for Fallout 3/New Vegas, except optimized "better".

yeah you're right it's called the ''creation engine''...i don't know why i thought it was source sry!

[SteinerW]

4 hours ago, runit3 said:

If you could provide me with a sample file for rendering and a link to whatever program you're using I'd be happy to run a test render and report the time. Could adjust -25% for the lower core/thread count, or just disable 2 of my cores, depending on program scaling (I doubt it's true 1:1).

What CPU do you have? And it might take a while if you do. I'm just using the default hammer setup. vvis.exe takes the longest. It was over 100 hours last time I rendered my map.

[SteinerW]

3 minutes ago, 3DGamerOnSteam said:

What CPU do you have? And it might take a while if you do. I'm just using the default hammer setup. vvis.exe takes the longest. It was over 100 hours last time I rendered my map.

Never mind, I missed it in your signature... Can I send you a download link to my vmf in a pm?

[runit3]

28 minutes ago, 3DGamerOnSteam said:

Never mind, I missed it in your signature... Can I send you a download link to my vmf in a pm?

yep

[Nena Trinity]

17 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

The Source engine can barely take advantage of one thread properly, much less twelve.

Actually Valve says it can use up to 6 but after that the result see no increase even if you can use 12... (paste "-threads 12" into launch options!)