Which CPU

[The Belgian Waffle]

Hello guys and happy holidays,

 

Sorry if this topic has already been covered, and I'm sure it's been, but I'm struggling a bit to understand a thing of two. 

 

My friend is a 3D modeling artist and does side-projects while she's not at work.

Her current PC has a i7 3770 and a GTX 650, and it takes 30 minutes to render one sigle frame in 1080p (60 frames per second, per 1:30 of video, I'll let you do the maths, but it's a lot).

Now that her project is done, she'd like to upgrade a thing or two in her build, without buying a new one from scratches.

 

I wanted to help her, after having watched LTT videos for 6 months or so, but there are some thing that they didn't cover. 

She uses Autodesk Maya and I know that the more cores, the better, but is the 6800k a significant upgrade that would justify the price ∆ over a 6700k (also considering the price ∆ of the MOBO from 1151 to 2011-3)? 

Would be a 5820k enough? I've compared the 5820k and the 6800k and it doesn't look like there's much of a difference. 

 

Also, keep in mind that we cannot afford a 6950X 

Thanks for helping me, I highly appreciate if you even read until the end

 

P.S.

She also needs new ram, so I guess the price will be different from Z170 to x99.

P.S.S.

What about other generations such as the 4790k? Looks like it's far better than the 5820k

 

Aaaaaaand I'm lost

[EPPHO]

5820k is better than 4790k

[The Belgian Waffle]

2 minutes ago, frozeNNN said:

5820k is better than 4790k

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Comparing the 4790K and 5820K shows that the cheaper i7-4790K is significantly faster at both single and dual threaded workloads. The additional two cores found in the 5820K are not relevant to general computing and as such the 5820K probably makes a better server rather than consumer proposition. 

Got this from cpu.userbenchmark.com

[EPPHO]

20 minutes ago, The Belgian Waffle said:

Got this from cpu.userbenchmark.com

I am still pretty sure 5820k is better for rendering