Render farm performance

[BoSoZoku]

I was wondering, if I add (theoretically) an identical computer to my current one will it render roughly twice as fast? (of course it depends on the network speed and the rendering engine how much they can use)

Also would an AMD 1055T be comparable to a stock i7 930 rendering wise?

It should be slightly slower but not too much by looking at cinebench charts (not that they mean much when talking about real render times).

I can have one fully functional render farm node with a 1055T for 290 Euros, I could buy five for the price of a good workstation/all rounder, which I already have so it doesn't make sense to waste money on another one when I can get a small render farm.

I will use this to render 3D and videos.

Sorry for the silly questions and thanks for the help.

[Shadaez]

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[bohb]

I think a single core from any Phenom II series CPU is about on par with an E6000 series Intel CPU. My friend has a Phenom II x4 945 and my E8400 machine (with same RAM and GPU) would run circles around it in single threaded applications.

Though the x6 would probably perform better due to having 6 cores. It still wouldn't be comparable to an i7-930 because the architecture of the x6 is more or less the same as an x4, just with two more cores.

Though if possible, why not try looking into a rig that uses GPUs to do rendering? It may cost a bit more, but it would be 10 times faster and consume far less power than having 6 hex cores chugging away.

[BoSoZoku]

[QUOTE=bohb;32086031]I think a single core from any Phenom II series CPU is about on par with an E6000 series Intel CPU. My friend has a Phenom II x4 945 and my E8400 machine (with same RAM and GPU) would run circles around it in single threaded applications.

Though the x6 would probably perform better due to having 6 cores. It still wouldn't be comparable to an i7-930 because the architecture of the x6 is more or less the same as an x4, just with two more cores.

Though if possible, why not try looking into a rig that uses GPUs to do rendering? It may cost a bit more, but it would be 10 times faster and consume far less power than having 6 hex cores chugging away.[/QUOTE]

As much as I'd love to use gpus for rendering it would be too problematic as of now.

I can't use Vray, there's iRay which is far more limited and it's based on Cuda gpus. (I have ati)

As you said it would also cost more and for now it's still in the early stages, not to mention with a cpu based render farm I can render 3d, videos but also use it for music and other stuff while having a gpu based render farm will narrow my range of possible uses.

Thanks for the replies tho!