PC vs MAC for 3d rendering?

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Hello Tom's

I'm hoping to get some good input into this, not wanting to start a argument or anything. I'm a pc man through and through. I have a pretty decent gaming rig, its built to game. However I also use it for photoshop, lightroom, and Cinema 4d. A coworker also uses his pc for photoshop and lightroom only. He does not game. His argument is that my gaming rig pc is totally worthless when it comes to 3d renders. I didnt totally disagree with him by stating that it wasnt made for that but I still use it for that. He then went on to say that I should Have gotten a MAC since its better at that stuff. I told him that I've always looked at them as overly expensive and my gaming rig is just as good for things like cinema 4d renders. I do understand that I do not have a xeon processor or a workstation graphics card which would be better for that but anyways.

My main question is would a high end gaming rig computer not be as good as a mac for 3d rendering.

Just to through some random specs out there we'll just say high end i7 and gtx780 with 12 gigs ram.
 
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Also im a 3D Gernarlist on Maya 2014 Software:

i have a Mac book Pro
8 GB ram
i7 8Vcore
and me Workstation have

i7 12V core
65 GB Ram
Windwos 8 Pro

And i see that me Mac Book Pro (LAPTOP) not 20% longer need to render Complex scence (30 Million Polygons) and its massiv to see the Hardware diffenenz ! also i see that Mac same Hardware 30 up to 50% faster render same Hardware!
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Pierre Urbanek

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Also im a 3D Gernarlist on Maya 2014 Software:

i have a Mac book Pro
8 GB ram
i7 8Vcore
and me Workstation have

i7 12V core
65 GB Ram
Windwos 8 Pro

And i see that me Mac Book Pro (LAPTOP) not 20% longer need to render Complex scence (30 Million Polygons) and its massiv to see the Hardware diffenenz ! also i see that Mac same Hardware 30 up to 50% faster render same Hardware!
 
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kgrevemberg

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Pierre, are you saying that your mac takes 20% longer than your PC?
 
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Pierre Urbanek

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Yes (you see the Diffrent Hardware!) and its new Install of Windows with Up to datest Driver!


 
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Anyone who makes that claim has *ZERO* clue what they are talking about. They're most likely buying into advertising propaganda.
 
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kgrevemberg

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Thats pretty much what I told the guy. That he's paying for the name and good ol locked in hardware for the most part. Whereas I can upgrade my pc to the heavens or to the bottom of my bank account.
 
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And just when Mac Pros finally start getting some real GPUs and SSDs, Apple abandons their tower cases completely for that weird looking garbage can / champagne cooler thing. :lol:
 
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Harsh Gajjar

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i think the power of mac is not its hardware, it is its system.
you can hardly play or watch other videos or do other things during you batch render in maya with windows.
but you can do those things with mackintosh system...it utilities your hardware in a well mannered than windows.

I have install mackintosh on my hackintosh build....
it is definately faster than windows. i was doing render with mackintosh with same hardware.. same file and same maya version with mental ray renderer.

windows took around 1.30 seconds and mackintosh does it in 1.15 seconds...that's a big difference when it comes to render more than 100 frames :)
my hardware is core i7-950, 12 gig ram, radeon 5770...

even my mackintosh was running more background programs than my windows..
I was running mac 10.8.5 and windows 7 - 64 bit with latest drivers.

the point is about system...may be,
that's what i think :)

you can build your own mac running system,
it does not need to spend that much money for those logos and cool hardware...;)

i found this tests online...you may look at it too...
http://polygonspixelsandpaint.tumblr.com/post/3353016788

 
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I agree, Hackintosh is the way to go. OSX is fantastic for graphic designers and animators. I was PC for years and after switch to Mac I hardly go back to my PC, only for Autodesk PC only products.

What 3D app are you using Harsh?
 
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Excuse me? I teach digital media technology at a University in the Midlands where we use both Macs and PCs, and I assure you, Maya very definitely runs on Macs (and not in emulation). In fact my students will frequently author Maya scenes on the PC and then do the renders on multiple Macs (or the other way around).
 
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