Also, renderfarms are usually referred to "in cores", because it's usually heterogeneous hardware networked together over the years. You may have some brand new

Also, renderfarms are usually referred to "in cores", because it's usually heterogeneous hardware networked together over the years. You may have some brand new 96 core 512 GB RAM machines mixed in with some several year old 8 core 32 GB machines. When a technical artist is submitting their work to be rendered on the farm, they often have an idea of how expensive their task will be. They will request a certain number of cores from the farm and a scheduler will go through and try to optimize everyone's requests across the available machines.