iMac, Mac Pro, or PC?

[basilbabaa]

Ray Trace your 10 Passes, = 1 min. 54 sec. to my 8 min. 58 sec.
Walk Thru = your 30 fps, 71 sec., 2130 frames = 13 min. 9 sec. to my 69 min. 22 sec.

 

That's a dramatic difference.  Thanks!

So I think I'll go with the Mac Pro now and keep my current dual Thunderbolt Monitor Setup until Apple catches up and starts making monitors again before I jump into and invest in the iMac Pro arena.

 

So now the final Question.

Is X9 built to take advantage of HyperThreading Multi-Core Technology so as to perform better with more cores or is it better with higher clock speeds for Rendering Walk-Thru's and Ray Tracing?

 

Which one?  

Clock Speed -or- Cores and Cache?

 

Mac Pro with Intel Xeon E5, 64GB (4x16GB) of 1866MHz DDR3 ECC, 1TB PCIe-based SSD, Dual AMD FirePro D700 GPUs with 6GB of GDDR5 VRAM each
(1) 3.5GHz 6-core with 12MB of L3 cache
(2) 3.0GHz 8-core with 25MB of L3 cache
(3) 2.7GHz 12-core with 30MB of L3 cache

[lbuttery]

CA has stated many times - the more cores the better

 

Lew

[TheKitchenAbode]

Just out of interest I ran this on my PC.

 

10 passes 1 minute 36 sec.

 

My system specs are below, CPU has 4 cores (8 threads).