I am planning to buy the new MacPro. I mainly do after effects and cinema 4d. I am confsued wheather to buy a 6 core or an 8 core CPU. Is it worth spending additional $1500 for 8 core?
On the other note, in regrards to the future upgrades currently i am planning to put 2x16 GB rams instead of 4x8 GB rams. So that i can put another 2 more 16 GBs in future. Will this affect the performance of the mac rpo? Can anyone help me on this please.
Mac Pro
See this site section on nMP
http://www.macperformanceguide.com/search-ajax.html?q=2013+Mac+Pro
you really should not feel penalized with 16GB DIMMs. Only way to go cost wise if you want 64GB later.
OWC has a faster 8-core upgrade, don't know when, or of course price - check their blog, for some buying 4-core and then go with faster 8-core processor.
then there is the question of D700 and most likely 1TB SSD.
A lot of hardware!
In general the 8-core is only worth it if your current work pegs all the processors you have at 100 percent with regularity. Ray-Tracing and Compressor do this easily.
Most Users doing more casual Movie and Photo work will be perfectly happy with the 6-core.
If not doing Graphics-intensive work, even the 4-core is overkill.
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The 16GB DIMMs available at this writing are all Register DIMMs, and do not play nice with non-register DIMMs (i.e., smaller sizes)
nMP mac pro 2013 configuration for motion graphics, video ...
Cinema 4D
http://forums.macrumors.com/search.php?searchid=38359296
On t he one hand, more RAM the merrier, on the other, cores and 3D graphics/video
Cinema, Motion, FCP-X 10.1+ leverage GPU
http://www.barefeats.com/gpu680v2.html
2013 Mac Pro 8-core versus 2009 Mac Pro 8-core running CPU crunch and GPU stress tests
2x16 GB RAM instead of 4x8 RAM?
