Threadripper 1950x, 1920x or another CPU

[Deadlyalice_]

I'm planning a build for 2D and 3D animation as well as some gaming and was wondering if Maya would be able to take advantage of the amount of cores or  threads threadripper has.

[CitizenK]

I don't have first hand experience with threadripper but I have experience with 12 cores Xeon machines. You'll probably get good performance for render previews and batch renders (mental ray / vray / octane).  But for real time work refresh rates through viewport 2.0 it'll be more GPU dependent (like animating characters). Texturing and lighting is also dependent on GPU. Also quadro/radeon pro support is better than your mainstream GPUs. For triangle calculations like merging geos or baking animation geometry, i think it's more dependent on single core performance. Maybe someone else can correct me on this. If you do a lot particle simulations then yes more cores help with the getting previews sooner. The main advantage i could see is doing renders by splitting the cores while you continue working on your scene or use photoshop etc. I think 8 cores would be a good performance/price solution. I would put more money in the GPU and ram. One more thing, if you use photoshop a lot, that application loves single core performance and ram. 2D drawing and manipulation is so smooth with an overclocked 4 cores like 7700k but obviously you would lose the rendering power of an 8-16 cores. Decisions...decisions...