Threadripper workstation and intel farm

[ac1867]

Hi All.

I'm looking at building an AMD Ryzen threadripper 1950X workstation but have intel xeon render nodes.

Am I right in thinking that they can produce slightly different results? Or would they be OK working together on a small render farm?

Many Thanks

Andy

[Ryuu]

Normally Corona should render correctly on any hardware regardless of whether the CPU is manufactured by AMD, Intel or any other exotic vendor, so mixing AMD and Intel CPUs in a render farm is perfectly safe.

However, we've just discovered a bug in CScatter causing slightly different results on AMD vs Intel in some very specific situations. We're currently working on fixing this.

[ac1867]

Thankyou for the reply. I won't let it hold me back then.

Cheers

[3dboomerang]

Heya, can you shed some light on your configuration? I'm investing in 2x extra threadrippers as well - any reason why you're going to AMD? Didn't Intel come with a counterpart for the threadripper?

Grts

[nikoLAB]

@3dboomerang

Haha... You're BMing Intel a little :). They don't have answer for 1950x and for a 2950x they will not have answer in next 5 years.

[3dboomerang]

especially if u take into account AMD is bring out Threaripper 2 in Q3 of this year, with a whopping 32Cores and 64Threads (TR4 architecture still!) -

I'm holding off my investment into 2x Threadrippers atm, I want to know how cheap / expensive the threadripper 2 will be...

[Fallen]

Our threadrippers work flawlessly with all the other nodes i7's, Xeons etc