emelendrez Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 Hi guys! I have the chance to upgrade my workstation. But I don't completely understand what would be the best choice in my case. Still learning about hardware and houdini´s performance. I´m in the advertisement Industry, and as you know, the timetable can get pretty crazy. I´m interested in improving simulation times and performance mostly. These are my specs. AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950x 16-Core Processor, 37000 Mhz 32 GB 2666Mhz DDR4 (Corsair Vengeance) GTX 1080 Ti What would you do? Upgrade Graphics card? maybe getting a second one? or getting more RAM? I´m still learning about Hardware and I´m a little lost. Also If you can recommend a YouTube channel or forum where I can learn more about this stuff, I´d really appreciate it. Thanks a lot for the help! Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanrudefx Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 well the good news is the new ryzen 5000 desktop cpus and the rtx 3000 gpus are fantastic, the bad news is literally every nivida card/ryzen 5000 cpu are pretty much gone. As for what to upgrade, it just depends. Are you hitting your ram limits? what are you using more often? Cpu or gpu? If your using redshift, then a better gpu would be your best bet. For simulation, I think most things are mainly using cpu unless its using open cl or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emelendrez Posted December 11, 2020 Author Share Posted December 11, 2020 15 minutes ago, ejr32123 said: well the good news is the new ryzen 5000 desktop cpus and the rtx 3000 gpus are fantastic, the bad news is literally every nivida card/ryzen 5000 cpu are pretty much gone. As for what to upgrade, it just depends. Are you hitting your ram limits? what are you using more often? Cpu or gpu? If your using redshift, then a better gpu would be your best bet. For simulation, I think most things are mainly using cpu unless its using open cl or something. Hi! thanks for the answer! well... I'm not really rendering in Houdini, so no redshift. Mostly I´d like to get faster feedback or get a little more aggressive on simulations. Most of the times Yes, I´m maxing the ram. I don't use open cl for simulations, only cpu. Do I need to get much higher than 32 Gb to actually notice the upgrade? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanrudefx Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 (edited) For me having more ram: 1. Allowed heavier sims/higher res sims 2. Able to do other things while simulating since ram isn't maxed out 3. Also you can set the cache to higher amounts on the dopnet which helpful. Having a better cpu will definitely help with simulations check out this chart, you can see ryzen 3000 compared to your cpu https://www.vfxarabia.co/post/houdini-benchmark-cores-vs-clockspeed-updated Edited December 12, 2020 by ejr32123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emelendrez Posted December 12, 2020 Author Share Posted December 12, 2020 1 minute ago, ejr32123 said: For me having more ram: 1. Allowed heavier sims/higher res sims 2. Able to do other things while simulated since ram isn't maxed out 3. Also you can set the cache to higher amounts on the dopnet which helpful. Having a better cpu will definitely help with simulations check out this chart, you can see ryzen 3000 compared to your cpu https://www.vfxarabia.co/post/houdini-benchmark-cores-vs-clockspeed-updated Awesome! thanks a lot man! I´ll check that out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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