DustRider opened this issue on Oct 27, 2013 · 60 posts
DustRider posted Sun, 17 November 2013 at 10:41 AM Online Now!
Seems that I should have done a bit more research before posting, but I was trying to keep the CPU configuration cost as low as possible, to keep the $$$ more or less equivalent. As it turns out, the CPU I used in my example isn't supported in a dual socket configuration (looks like all i7's are single processor only). Attached is a screen grab from a basic configuration with 2 Xeon processors running ar 3.4GHz - it's only $6,769.00. You might be able to build your own for $500-$1,500 less. Going to 8-16 Gb of RAM and a real low end graphics card might get you in the neighborhood of $5,000 - $5,500. Of course the CPU I used in my example was running at 3.8GHz, and this config is only running at 3.4Ghz, you can do the math, but it’s a fair reduction in theoretical performance (a combined .8Ghz less). A system with 2 GTX Titans will actually cost less than this dual 6 core Intel processor system. In fact, you could add in the cost of Octane with the dual Titan system, and still save money, while getting over 50X more instruction/processing cycles per second.
The point of your post is??? (not sure where you got your quote from, but right now on Newegg you can get a GTX Titan (6Gb) for $999.99-$1,019.99)
If you’re trying to say it’s too expensive to get great performance with GPU rendering, that simply doesn’t hold true. I just checked at NewEgg, and you can get an EVGA Geforce 660 with 3Gb of RAM about $225.00. It has 960 cuda cores running at 980MHz – I let you do the math. It will blow the doors off of the GPU I'm running, and I'm extremely happy with my system performance.
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