i7 6800k vs e5 2620 v4 for 3d rendering

stefan r

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Hello guys, I'm building new budget setup and wondering, what do you think, which one is better for 3d rendering, Intel i7 6800k (don't have intention to overclock it) or Intel Xeon e5 2620 v4. Does anyone have any benchmark results to compare or any infromation worth in this discussion.

Thanks in advance.
 
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I would say the the xeon is better for the rendering i.e Maya, 3ds Max in completing them quicker through the multi cores, but if you want to game as well I would take the i7 6800k as it has faster clock speeds and tends to cope better in them types of situations without bottlenecking. But the 6800k should make short work of 3d rendering too. I will have a look for some benchmarks for you.

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I would say the the xeon is better for the rendering i.e Maya, 3ds Max in completing them quicker through the multi cores, but if you want to game as well I would take the i7 6800k as it has faster clock speeds and tends to cope better in them types of situations without bottlenecking. But the 6800k should make short work of 3d rendering too. I will have a look for some benchmarks for you.
 
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stefan r

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Thank you Wolf.

I'm not interested in games for this rig, only rendering, but as you may notice, I have limited budget, so have to choose between CPUs like these two. In case 2620v4 have 2.8-3.0GHz clock speed, I wouldn't even consider 6800k, but with just 2.1GHZ speed, I was wondering, would 8/16 cores at 2,1GHz would be much faster than 6/12 cores at 3.6GHz. I know xeons are made for jobs like renderings, but still, in case of these two, I was completely confused.

I found some cinebench results I usually take as measurement for 3d rendering efficfency, but there are so many different results and I'm not sure which one to take as valid. Also, passmark and other benchmarks show not much difference between these two CPUs, so I wanted to see if there's anyone who had been in my situation and found a solution.

Rebusfarm benchmark result list shows that e52620v4 have cinebench r15 1831 multicpu score, but I found most of users have no more than 1200, also 6800k is not in base.

CPU-monkey shows cinebench r15 multicore score of 1096?! and one again 6800k is not in base.

Passmark shows 13500 for 6800k and 11870 for 2620v4

As you may notice, these informations doesn't help too much :/
 

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Passmark runs a CPU test as well, put it like this my i5 4690K 22nm Haswell at 4.2Ghz gets slaughtered by my old HP z600 workstation which is 45 nm and 2.4 ghz. I work alot with Maya and rendering things I would say you are better putting the money into the xeon and spending all the extra on what you need. For your tasks and extra cores the xeon is perfect, Add in GPU as well and it will game moderately well 60FPS. But like you say you're not a heavy gamer so its perfect.
 

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I bought i7 6800k for games and rendering. Works amazing with ASUS A99 II mobo. However if you just gonna use it for render I would go for Xenon as it has more memory and lower error threshold with maraton renderings.
 

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I actually bought Xeon and I'm really satisfied. Now I'm planing to go with dual CPU system, so Xeon was good choice. I was planing to go with e5 2640 v4, but then realized is more profitable and more efficient to buy 2 x e5 2620 v4. It's even cheaper. Dual CPU MBO is little expensive but most important for me is productivity (but also need to think about budget).

I agree, i7 6800k is amazing CPU for all those who do games and renderings and in case I didn't decide for dual CPU system I would go with 6800k too!