Here's hoping Intel come back with something credible for us in the not too distant future, although I agree with Juraj, that there doesn't appear to be anything coming along soon.
No need to hope, it's simply not coming :- ) Unfortunately they hit some hardware isssues:
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/87720/intel-xeon-sapphire-rapids-massive-delay-an-entire-year-and-some/index.htmlFor those with a TR 3rd gen, do you think the single threaded performance is at par with Ryzen 9 either 3950X or 5950X?
3990X doesn't lack behind 3950X in single-thread, it does behind 5950X and 12th & 13th Intel gen.
The fastest workstation right now for me is my laptop, and soon I'll have 12th-gen Intel HX laptop and I expect that to be massively smoother experience.
YI wish Corona was more open minded to GPU, CPU doesn't seem to be going anywhere for a long while in the better performance department.
This. I've been so tempted to jump into the FStorm boat just because of the GPU thing. Don't get me wrong, I prefer Corona, but getting new CPU nodes is so pricy.
I agree too, at some point GPU will be inevitable, just look at how crazy good and fast ray-tracing can be in nVidia Omniverse studio or Unreal 5 path-tracer.
It looks like a very interesting workflow.
My job is
still only stills :- ) And with utmost focus on overkill detail I hardly have patience to manage the weird integration of F-Storm or the missing features of Vray GPU. Corona is comfort.
But if my focus was bit more flexible, I would be seriously looking at those alternatives.
Thankfully for me rendering speed is not exactly a limiting factor, I am :- /