I make complex rigs in After Effects for 2D animations where there're a lot of expression's code in a lot of properties in a lot of layers. Due to that, Frame Render Time value goes very high, till 300-500 ms or even more, which is a lot for making any animation stuff, so that such high latency is even considered for me as good result.
Since when Multi-Frame Rendering was added to AE, I wondered: will CPU with a lot of cores like AMD Threadripper decrease Frame Render Time to comfort values in range 0-100 ms?
But also I heard that Frame Render Time mostly relies on single-core performance rather multi-core which means the higher speed of a single core would be, the faster would be Frame Render Time as well, which makes CPUs with a lot of cores useless specifically for me.
Though seems like it's not true for me, because even Task Manager shows me that all the cores' threads are loaded when I move controller of the leg (those peaks appear when I move controller which inderctly means that Frame Render Time may use multiple cores):
P.S. I've already done almost everything to accelerate real-time rendering and make animation process just a little faster: deleting/hiding unnecessary layers, structure optimisation, expression optimisation, converting all controllers to nulls, using quarter resolution, etc. Still, the only thing I didn't tried is upgrading PC, that why I'm asking about it.
P.P.S. Interesting fact: no matter what resolution I would choose (Full, Half, Third, Quarter or even Custom), this doesn't solve the problem at all, Frame Render Time is still very high.
P.P.P.S. I know that the overall After Effects performance depends not only on CPU, it's also about RAM, GPU and SSDs that you're using for making any stuff in AE, but now the choice of CPU is vital to me
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