hornet3d posted at 4:00AM Sun, 16 February 2020 - #4380649

... if Poser in hardcoded at 32 threads that would obviously affect my decision on which one.

Yes, agreed. If no expansion of thread usage is forseeable for P12, then I would probably go with the 3970X (32 core, 64 thread, @3.7GHz {max turbo 4.5GHz}). The virtual threads would be available to run the Poser executable, Queue Manager, and all of those Windows housekeeping processes.

But if it seems likely that P12 would be able to run more threads, then I would probably save up to get the Threadripper 3990X (64 cores, 128 threads, @2.9GHz {max turbo 4.3GHz}), or possibly a pair of the 64-core Epyc CPUs. The Threadripper apparently cannot use server memory, but it has considerably more aggressive turbo clocking than the Epyc.

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