In my opinion the single biggest thing that makes a difference in Nuke is RAM. All of the other upgrades (faster cpu's, fast drives) do make a difference, but it is usually minimal. With the upcoming release GPU's might start to be a factor, but it seems like any recent lower end to mid end Quadro should be more than enough to do the job if you are aiming for workstation class cards. Get 24 gigs as the absolute minimum in RAM, 48 gigs is better for sure! I personally haven't seen much difference in performance from using i7 quadcore processors compared to Xeons (although it obviously depends on what models you are comparing).
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:59 AM, thoma <[email protected]>wrote: > ** > Hi Everyone, > > I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on a new workstation and I thought > I'd get some opinions on components that will play nicely with the upcoming > release of Nuke 7. > > GPU > I saw the latest demos so a good GPU is in order to take advantage of all > the new gpu accelerated features. What's best for nuke? Cuda? OpenGL? > OpenCL? Lots of memory? Speed? > > CPU > I'm deciding between dual 2.5ghz 6 core xeons (12 core total) and dual > 3.3ghz 4core (8 cores total). I've seen on other threads here that since > many operations in nuke are single threaded a faster single core > performance will translate to better interactivity. However I've also seen > people use the comparison of (cores x ghz per core) to decide. In this case > its a score of 30 for the 12 core and 26.4 for the 8 core. Would a single > threaded operation at 2.5ghz really be THAT much slower than at 3.3ghz? > Enough to justify 4 fewer physical cores and 8 virtual? > > One thing to note is I want this system to also play nicely with Maya, > Vray, CS6, Zbrush, and Mari..... > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users > -- Jose Fernandez de Castro
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