Even better, if you don't take the scalper version of Xeon and go AMD... A faster Threadripper 3 goes for $2k not $15k. Workstation versions of Navi are likely

Even better, if you don't take the scalper version of Xeon and go AMD... A faster Threadripper 3 goes for $2k not $15k. Workstation versions of Navi are likely to arrive soon, making these Pro versions of Radeon VII look somewh t silly. (W5700XT to be exact.) You can have a similar rack machine for $10k, (blade itself $6k) easier to expand too. The only reason to get this is if you're locked into OS X for process and really benefit from so many cores and GPUs. Which you likely won't. This is not useful for compute nor a server, and for actual video encoding you want the accelerator card (offered) not the GPUs nor probably beefy CPU, while 3D rendering is better done on non-Mac anyway. The big seller of Macs is still Photoshop and that does not make great use of this CPU, nor that much RAM.