Hi,

I have a 6 core 12 thread Intel machine and run poser 11 pro. It's great. That said, when I render, with Firefly, it buries the cores. Granted it's still pretty quick, but animations are easily overnight affairs.

AMD just released a 16 core 32 thread wonder chip. Supposedly unbelievable as a rendering engine. Intel has too (soon), but twice the price. (18 cores for $2k, and not released yet. Faster for sure, but...)

My question: What's better for rendering? Cores/ Threads CPU? GPU?

It becomes murky to me when people use Superfly, because they can use their Video Card with tons of cores. I have a fairly decent card, lots of cores, but I don't see much difference in speed when rendering high quality, though you do get to keep using your computer as the CPU isn't buried.

Anyone have one of these Ryzen Threadrippers yet?

I'm feeling the need for speed.