News Intel leak points to eight-core consumer Cannonlake parts

Stanley Tweedle · 4 Oct 2015

jrs77 said:

Stanley Tweedle said: ↑

Yes, get rid of antiquated lowly quad core and replace it with 2000 Nvidia cores. I do a lot of 3d rendering and without 3rd party plugins the rendering is done on my intel quad core at 4.8ghz. Very very slow. 3rd party GPU renderer plugin is able to render the scene many times faster on my Nvidia 680.

And someone said no software makes use of more than 4 cores? Totally wrong.
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I do rendering myself, but even most render-egines don't make use of the GPU buit only use the CPU. V-Ray being the prime example here.
There's three render-engines to my current knowledge that use the GPU... Cycles, LuxRender and the new nVidia thingy built into DazStudio.

Still, that software isn't used by the vast majority of the PC-users. Office-Software, DTP-software etc are all single-threaded to this date, becasue these tasks can't be parallelisised by default.

So yeah, for 95+% of all software more than 4C/8T is totally useless.
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Nope, there are more GPU engines than that. VRAY RT, Thearender, Furryball RT, Octane Render is a very popular one. Scientific processing, number crunching, 3d modeling/rendering, video editing is another popular use for multi-core. The 6 core intels are good for video editing and if you can afford it then xeons offer even more performance. 8 xeons on a motherboard each with 10 or more cores. Games can also make use of the extra cores. Depends on the game engine.

Stanley Tweedle · 5 Oct 2015

jrs77 said:

You still think that that's alot, while it isn't.

The vast majority of people still don't use any software like this. And those who do will simply grab a Socket 2011 CPU or a Xeon.
There's absolutely no need for more than 4 Cores in high-volume consumer-grade CPUs.

Also. V-Ray RT is only good for pre-rendering. I've tried it in V-Ray 2.0 and the results on my CPU are better than in V-Ray RT.
And you don't need alot of GPU-power for the modelling-process either. My integrated Iris Pro has no troubles to drive software like Blender or 3ds Max. No stuttering at all there.
1080p video-editing is also no problem on my integrated GPU and with QuickSync it's even faster than my GTX660 for converting videos.

In my new rig I don't even have a dedicated GPU installed, but only use the Iris Pro and I basically do nothing else than Graphics Design with it.
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Iris graphics are good from what I've read. Agreed for most users on number of cores. I still want more cores though. Give me at least 8 with HT.

tozsam · 6 Oct 2015

I think he's after more cores but at consumer prices, I'm assuming, because I'd like the same thing. I'm on an overclocked sandybridge i7, the next logical step would be the 5960X, but the lowest I've found it for is £650, that's a lot to me, working freelance, especially as I would need new mobo, DDR4 ram etc.

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