New WorkStation Planning

[CTX-SLPR]

Howdy,

 

With lead times in getting a "tech refresh" for my primary workstation (at work), I think it's time to start planning now.  Workload wise I do a ton of SolidWorks with a lot of computationally intensive rendering (like 6 mirror reflections) currently with the built in rendering engine but I'm planning on branching out into KeyShot.   I also do a good bit of MATLAB work with data analysis and image processing.

My analysis of what is stressed empirically and some basic research (Linus' video among them) is that the rendering really gains from multicore systems but the general modeling stresses single core performance.  Memory doesn't seem to really come into play if you have "enough" and I've not stressed 32Gb in my current system.  I'm already running a Quadro P4000 and do not seem to be stressing it but might be CPU bottlenecking.

 

Question I really have is what CPU should I request?  I'm working within Dell's Precision 5820 lineup and am drawn to the 6 core W-2133 and W-2135 models or the more expensive 8 core W-2145.  What do y'all think paired with the same 32Gb RAM and Quadro P4000?  Budget isn't unlimited but this will be my system for the next 3+yrs and I'm starting to sit around while things are rendering because trying to do much else causes the system to hang and stutter frequently.

 

Thanks

[Firewrath9]

10c Xeon, or more

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16819117889

 

or 

16c/24c EPYC

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16819113466

 

You can get 6 channels for the xeon and i think 8 for the EPYC.

[Brett_Bst]

im not an expert but looking at them 2 cpu's (2135 & 2145) then for your work I would say the 2145, just for the extra cores, if you can use the extra cores which you probley would then I would say the 2145.

Like above there is more core options if you can use a different cpu

stats 2135 vs 2145