I'm a creative professional, currently on a mac pro dual x5670 system.
It's still quite respectable in terms of cpu speeds (around 25000 on geekbench 4). But the GPU (nivida) driver support is lacking and the cause of a very unstable system.
Hence I'm looking to jump ship to windows 10 since I only spend time in applications I don't really care about the OS.
It seems the E5 platform from V1-V3 doesn't really improve CPU performance that drastically. So if I would stick with intel I would need to invest in a V4 system.
However:
Intel seems to be way overpriced to me.
If I get 2x E5-2640V4 with supermicro X10DAI I'm paying:
cpu €2300
board: 400,00 €
total: €2700
geekbench single:4234 multi:49950
Amd seems a lot more interesting in terms of price.
Thread ripper 1950X + average board
cpu: €900
board: €350
total: €1250
geekbench single:5014 multi:52585
However, since I only worked with workstation grade hardware like supermicro and the mac pro. I'm a bit worried about the motherboards out there. Are they stable enough? Because they all seem to be gaming boards.
If supermicro would release a threadripper board the choice would be easy. But they only have Epyc boards and epyc does not seem to be workstation oriented because of the low clock speeds.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated!
John.
It's still quite respectable in terms of cpu speeds (around 25000 on geekbench 4). But the GPU (nivida) driver support is lacking and the cause of a very unstable system.
Hence I'm looking to jump ship to windows 10 since I only spend time in applications I don't really care about the OS.
It seems the E5 platform from V1-V3 doesn't really improve CPU performance that drastically. So if I would stick with intel I would need to invest in a V4 system.
However:
Intel seems to be way overpriced to me.
If I get 2x E5-2640V4 with supermicro X10DAI I'm paying:
cpu €2300
board: 400,00 €
total: €2700
geekbench single:4234 multi:49950
Amd seems a lot more interesting in terms of price.
Thread ripper 1950X + average board
cpu: €900
board: €350
total: €1250
geekbench single:5014 multi:52585
However, since I only worked with workstation grade hardware like supermicro and the mac pro. I'm a bit worried about the motherboards out there. Are they stable enough? Because they all seem to be gaming boards.
If supermicro would release a threadripper board the choice would be easy. But they only have Epyc boards and epyc does not seem to be workstation oriented because of the low clock speeds.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated!
John.
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