Not sure whether this is relevant to the current Threadripper, but nonetheless thought I’d toss my observations into the Marketplace of Ideas. In 2019, I bought the Threadripper 1950x processor on a PRIME X-399a motherboard with 128 GB of RAM. In Poser, I render exclusively in Firefly and wanted the 16-core configuration. My configuration has a Nvidia Titan V graphic card, which I bought for other applications. I use Nvidia’s Studio Drivers.

I render images to my iPad Pro’s resolution (2732x2048x264). Most of my images are full scenes with up to 6-7 V4/M4 clothed characters, architectural elements, and background stuff. Rendering is very fast—from seconds for a single character to a few minutes for the full scene I described. However, if the scene has extensive raytracing on leaves, trees, hair, the rendering time increased as we’d all expect.

In P11 and to a slightly lesser extent in P12, Firefly periodically crashed my system. In some instances, I’d get a message that Windows has to close Poser. Other times, Firefly would simply trigger a BSOD. Recently I discovered AMD’s Ryzen Master program, which as everyone likely knows, has a ‘creator’ mode. It appears the 1950X Threadripper default mode sets the core’s Mhz at 3700. Creator mode drops it down to 3400, which vastly stabilized my system. Ninety-seven of my Firefly renders in creative mode complete without crashing Poser. And I’ve noticed no impact to my other programs.

So, while the Threadripper’s speed increases render time, overclocking may not be the answer.