No it's actually not..
The fastest 1,1's are about comparable to an i5 speed wise. 1,1's also have PCIe V1 which means that the graphics card the will help you run that animation is a half speed compared to existing MP's and will be 1/3 speed for new ones.
If you were to take and new 16 core Sandy workstation put a pair os say 680's in it. the animation that requires a week for you to render will most take less that a day in a modern system (provided it can use CUDA).
look.. i admit, i'm not the best at getting a thought out of my head -> into the keyboard -> out to the webz -> and into your brain but...
you're talking as if the computer is doing all the work and the only limiting factors are how fast it can add 2&2..
but if i calculate the time i spend creating a render, MOST of the time has nothing to do with pushing the make_me_pretty button..
it's the drawing/modeling and texturing which is 90% of the work.. or the work that i physically do while interacting with the computer.. 10% of the time is me setting up the lights etc in which i'll often need to run downscaled previews to make sure things are going to look right in the finals.. and sure, having a kickass computer during those times are surely welcome and i'll often network with a laptop or desktop or both just to get more cpus going..
but please try to recognize the point being made.. i could have 500 cores going during that phase in which my previews would come back instantaneously.. and what have i actually accomplished? not much.. i shaved 5% off my project time by being the proud owner of the worlds fastest hypothetical computer on earth.. on a more realistic level, say i have i 16 core computer which is seemingly so much better to some of you all, i just shaved 3% off the actual time..
most of the workload is simply unaddressed.. you just threw away a lot of effort & money at an attempt to increase efficiency but didn't really solve anything.. that's because clock speed and/or #of cpus are not the problem.. the problem lies elsewhere..
the actual time it takes to complete the final renders.. that's a different story.. while the computer is chugging along, i can be at the beach.. working on other things.. sleeping.. eating. whatever... and this is when i demand a 'pro' product.. that thing needs to go full speed for a week straight if i so desire and not break.. and in my experience, this is the type of performance i can expect out of a macpro.. they're relatively very well built and are generally of high quality throughout.. that's why they're called macpro
but do understand.. renders aren't my final product.. in fact, i personally don't even need them to arrive at my ends.. i use them more for client communication / sales purposes..
so in that effect, i'm by no means a 'professional renderer'
and if i were, i definitely wouldn't be sitting around daydreaming and/or whining about mac doesn't have 16 core machines but soandso does.. a 16 core machine for someone who makes their living strictly via producing computer renders or animations sounds like a horrible idea to me..
that would be like a carpenter who only has a handsaw.. it's just a stupid idea..
i mean, if it's your job to churn out renders day after day after day, you better have more than a couple of computers linked up.. and in that case, buying 5 16core macpros and assembling them as one just seems ridiculous to me and a waste of money.. you'd only need one macpro then build or buy the cpuasaurs in a non-workstation train of thought..
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