Spec PC for After Effects and Cinema 4D

[oliverl754657]

Hi,

We're looking at the following spec that is purely for working with After Effects and Cinema 4D (we have a separate high core render machine).

Case: CORSAIR CRYSTAL SERIES 460X RGB GAMING CASE

Processor: (CPU)Intel® Core™i7 Six Core Processor i7-8700k (3.7GHz) 12MB

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 7: ATX, LG1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs - RGB

Memory (RAM): 64GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3000MHz (4 x 16GB)

Graphics Card: 12GB NVIDIA TITAN Xp - HDMI, 3x DP GeForce - GTX VR Ready!

1st Hard Disk: 4TB Samsung 850 EVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)

2nd Hard Disk: 6TB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 128MB CACHEDVD/BLU-RAY

We did also look at the new iMac Pro's, but the Radeon Vega 64 performs badly compared to the Titan, which seems best on all metrics (https://techgage.com/article/a-look-at-amds-radeon-rx-vega-64-workstation-compute-performance/2/)

It's tricky finding a machine that is good for both After Effects and C4D, and there's a lot of information out there!

Thanks

[RjL190365]

That Titan Xp is WAY overkill for After Effects because After Effects itself barely utilizes the GPU at all even with Ray-Tracer enabled, and that the Lite version of C4D that's included with AE performs virtually all rendering on the CPU. As such, that configuration is a bit lopsided in component balance towards too much GPU. A GeForce GTX 1070 or a GTX 1070 Ti would have been a better match for your selected CPU in terms of CPU-to-GPU balance.

On the other hand, the PAID version of C4D does offer GPU acceleration, but still renders a good portion on the CPU. Thus, CPU to GPU balance is still important.