Hi, Im a network admin/technician for a Landscape Architecture firm, we are looking at upgrading our 3d max workstations + possibly building a few rendering nodes (I think we use bucket rendering and can share processes from other workstation).
We use 3d studio max 2013, and we have 3 guys in our team, we also do a bit of after effects work.
I’m looking for some data sheets for rendering performance of a large sample of high end workstations across a few benchmarks.
like these:
Premiere Pro
http://ppbm5.com/DB-PPBM5-2.php
After Effects:
http://benchmark.slashcam.de/
Bit more background, we do lots of photo realistic renderings of housing developments up to small cities. Outputting still and animations. The rendering time is killing us. We currently don’t take advantage of GPU to rendering but might be looking at moving in that direction, but for now looking at just CPU, RAM, SSD + a nice video card but not Teslas.
We currently have Dell T7500’s with a fair bit of grunt(Dual Xeon), but we need to get the most bang for our buck.
Cheers