CPU vs GPU for rendering?
Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 9:30 am
I am still considering the new PC build.
My main goal is video rendering with Magic, I am not going to do any live work.
The main objective is increasing the rendering speed.
At the moment the rendering speed is about 10 - 20 FPS for 1080p.
So, the questions are:
1. Based on the specifics of Magic, what would work better - more cores or a more powerful GPU?
2. Would Magic be able to efficiently utilize more than 8 cores during rendering? I am considering a dual Xeon build where I can get up to 24 cores (48 threads).
3. Or is it better to invest in a powerful GPU, like GeForce GTX 1080 TI 11 GB? I can get one second-hand for a very reasonable money.
I have checked the resource manager and it showed very high CPU load 95 - 100% on all my 8 threads during render and nearly no CPU load during live preview. I suppose that rendering should be CPU intensive task, is my assumption correct?
Thank you in advance!
My main goal is video rendering with Magic, I am not going to do any live work.
The main objective is increasing the rendering speed.
At the moment the rendering speed is about 10 - 20 FPS for 1080p.
So, the questions are:
1. Based on the specifics of Magic, what would work better - more cores or a more powerful GPU?
2. Would Magic be able to efficiently utilize more than 8 cores during rendering? I am considering a dual Xeon build where I can get up to 24 cores (48 threads).
3. Or is it better to invest in a powerful GPU, like GeForce GTX 1080 TI 11 GB? I can get one second-hand for a very reasonable money.
I have checked the resource manager and it showed very high CPU load 95 - 100% on all my 8 threads during render and nearly no CPU load during live preview. I suppose that rendering should be CPU intensive task, is my assumption correct?
Thank you in advance!