If your trying to weigh price to performance. As you mention, higher cpu is better. So I would favor higher ghz cpus over more cores. IE 4 core 3.3ghz would tend to be faster in Nuke then 6 core 2.5ghz.
For Gpu, we announced gpu support for some of the nodes in the next version of Nuke(Denoise, Zdefocus, Motionblur, Kronos). Probably a few others but those are the ones I last remembered which we have talked about. Our Gpu acceleration though is Cuda at the moment so Nvidia only right now (OpenCL in the future). Personally with Nuke/Mari I don't see much of a difference between Quadro vs Geforce. The new geforce 680 is awesome and only $500. You only loose the ability to do quad buffer stereo with shutter glasses without a quadro (nvidia disables this ability under geforce). -deke 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 _______________________________________________ Nuke-users mailing list [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users
