For lightmass baking, the 8700k will be ~30-40% faster than the 1700x https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Unreal-Engine-4-16-CPU-Comparison-Skylake-X-Kaby-Lake-X-Broadwell-E-Skylake-Ryzen-7-984/ The most comparable CPU to the 8700k is the 6850k (the 8700k is ~15% faster)
@PolyHertz Yeah I'm definitely a value-minded buyer. :p The 5600X alone is $279.99 at Micro Center when not bundling a qualifying mobo, and that's apparently the lowest price it's been. It's a 40% price increase over the 5600G though. I'm looking at benchmarks here and it seems the 5600X is between 11 to 15% faster in…
@Brandon.LaFrance Hey Brandon, thanks for your input. CPU is a Ryzen 5900X (just copied from the mid-tier build, but willing to change it if benefits are really worth it). Regarding the 3090, you're right that it's considerably faster...But its power costs are more than double (triple?) the amount of an RTX A4000. In my…
Looks like a worthwhile upgrade for 1xxx series owners to me. I've seen some framerates for 3xxx vs 2080 Ti tested in various games and I think 3090 was listed as 70% faster. 3080 maybe 30-40% better, no idea about 3070. Looking good - but not good enough to upgrade from a 2080 Ti unless it's going to be the top end…
@PolyHertz Hi there! I'm confused when it comes to Zbrush. For extensive 40-80 million polies what would you choose? i7-8086K or Threadripper 2950x config? How good does i7-8086K handle multitaskig? (Using zbrush while baking 4k maps with substance + recording what i do + jumping back and forth from Maya and Zbrush)…
@thomasp Ah, yea I get what you're saying. Unfortunately anyone whose used a 4+ core CPU from Sandy Bridge (2500K and 2600K) on up, with an SSD, has basically already experienced the final "Oh shit! Everything's so much faster then on my last PC!" moment (at least for the foreseeable future). A 40% boost in per-thread…
Agreed, seems like the last time I felt a proper performance boost was when going from Core2 to i7. But with GPU upgrades I certainly do notice something like a 40% boost. Oh well, I wasn't comfortable with running an 8-year old as my daily driver anymore so I'm not too fussed. Not exactly a necessary upgrade though. What…
Now after a few weeks in full production mode with the new system I have to admit I don't perceive the Ryzen 5950X as any faster than my 8-year old Intel I upgraded from for single core heavy tasks (so, basically everything that isn't rendering, baking, cooking things in Unreal or zipping up archives). On paper there…
It's unlikely you'll miss the extra CPU threads unless you're building code, rendering on the CPU or doing something un-artisty - its a big saving over the 5950x for very little performance loss and certainly much better value for money. a 3080Ti is a 3090 with bits chopped off - it's what I would have bought if they…
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