what system for 3D generalist

[Defcom]

Hi guys i really need some help, professional 3d/motion graphics artist I'm looking to get a new PC/Workstation. 

Main programmes

3D max

Aftereffects

Photoshop 

Not sure which to go for a =

Dual Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4, S 2011-3, Broadwell-EP, 10 Core, 2.4GHz, 3.4GHz Turbo. so 20 Cores

or

Single Intel Core i7 6950X, S2011-3, Broadwell-E, 10 Core, 20 Thread, 3GHz Clock, 4GHz Turbo.

Any help would be great both systems will be running 64gig ram and Dual gtx 1080ti's.

I'm not concerned about aesthetics.

 

Thanks in Advance guys

 

 

[Orangeator]

Well obviously in mutli-threaded work loads that can utilize all 40 threads of those Xeons would absolutely smoke the i7, it's also substantially more expensive. So the question is, more CPU horsepower for more money, or a lot less CPU horsepower for a lot less money.

 

Edit: I would strongly reccomend getting the i7 after looking at how you will be using this system.

[genexis_x]

Why not Ryzen 7?

[Defcom]

after alls said and done the Dual Xeons with mobo and the i7 with mobo they come out nearly the same price. i just don't know enough about the Ryzen 7 to go down that road

[AntonChigurh]

10 minutes ago, Defcom said:

after alls said and done the Dual Xeons with mobo and the i7 with mobo they come out nearly the same price. i just don't know enough about the Ryzen 7 to go down that road

Ryzen's actually pretty damn good for productivity tasks. They completely smoke similarly priced Intel options in multi-threaded workloads. But, because they're a lot cheaper than your current options you've picked, they're not gonna have as many cores (the 1800x is an octa-core). But probably the question you should be asking is if you need the extra cores/threads. If not, go ryzen. If yes, go 6950x or Xeons.