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Are there really that many people doing 3d model rendering? My guess would be PC users by count are gamers > programmers > 3d renderers For most gamers, seem
by brianwawok 9y ago
Are there really that many people doing 3d model rendering?
My guess would be PC users by count are
gamers > programmers > 3d renderers
For most gamers, seems like i7 or maybe i9 wins in current benchmarks. For programmers maybe ryzen is a better fit, but I bet it depends on your language.
- snaily 9y agoYou're forgetting the CGI industry, as seen in movies.
- brianwawok 9y agoI am not forgetting it. Google right now, tells me there are: 155 million "gamers" in the US 3.6 million programmers in the US I cannot guess that the CGI industry is higher than either of these numbers. Now very much they may pay for bleeding edge, and spend more dollars on hardware than programmers. But I am at least 95% confident there are less people in the US running a 3d program on their desktop compared to running eclipse/visual studio/atom/vim.
- msimpson 9y agoIf you're a gamer, then yes, the i7-7820X is precisely what you'd be considering in opposition to the 1800X. I invoked the example of 3D rendering as it's the origin of most of these discussions among my co-workers.
- Shivetya 9y agohow does AR impact this need? will it by default make everyone a gamer with regards to hardware needs? that is if someone one can make a compelling case for it becoming widespread.
- noir_lord 9y ago> but I bet it depends on your language. Not as much as you would think, I have a ryzen 1700 I use for dev, mostly PHP (not a language that threads well) in an Enterprise environment. Those extra cores/threads come in incredibly handy for virtualization, both dev environments and things like running windows for testing Even VS2017 inside virtual box absolutely flies when given 16GB of RAM and 4 cores (8T). For my day to day the cores are useful even if my primary language isn't using all of them. I'm currently in the strange situation where my desktop running the main system in virtual box is faster than our production/spare servers.
- bluedino 9y agoWhat about prosumer video editors?
- brianwawok 9y agoSure those exist. 1) How many are there? 2) it seems like you are usually not CPU bound. The people I know doing this spend 20 minutes waiting for a video to render than 6 hours uploading it to youtube. In most cases their bandwidth is a limiter 10x over their CPU. (Plus most of those people are on Mac anyway, so they don't even get this choice)
- tmaly 9y agographic designers are. my friend is moving off a mac and onto a pc just to do 3d rendering at home.