I was hoping we would see below options for new generations. Things are moving so slowly with CPU's, almost 4 years later from the original 64 core just to double the performance... Ugh... Meanwhile GPU's
Well, that's like CPU development in general :- ) 3xxx Threadrippers were rather breakthrough, one of those must-buy generations that come time from time.
I am not really bothered by this anymore, even if single-core performance in CPUs got multiplied by two, it would still not make Windows experience smooth & fluent, majority of fault still lies with software. How tremendously fast are SSDs now? And how long does it take to load resources by 3ds Max (scene opening, assets loading, etc..).
And how on earth is Photoshop slower and choppier with each new version? And on much faster PCs.
In 2010, I bought first public alpha version of Octane, and ran it on my young brother's gaming PC with whatnot GPU at that time from nVidia (GTX 480?) with some pathetic amount of VRAM.
And it was fucking miraculous, that interactive speed, it was wow-moment :- ).
I
never had that again. Corona was miracle compared to Vray, but that is because it didn't produce horrible artifacts from Irradiance Cache and was easy and smooth to use. No performance miracle, just quality user experience.
The whole CPU rendering would be dead-end if market reality wasn't that there isn't actually a reasonable alternative since it's tiny market (archviz) within tiny market (CGI&VFX in general). There is nothing like Corona, simple, fully featured and fully integrated, all three aspects. Vray is featured and integrated, but still complex and is more like flavor sidegrade at this time, FStorm was simple and mostly fully featured but weirdly integrated and would never have full company support with 20+ devs behind like Corona.
For the kind of commercial high-quality jobs I do with Corona, I can only do them with Corona. So having fast and high-core CPU is necessary. But,.. that really doesn't excite me to open my wallet. On level of excitement, it is like 2 on scale from 0 to 10.
I have no idea what I even tried to say, sorry :- D. Just Friday (I know it's Thursday) ranting. I am just more exited by my laptops (when they're not blue-screening, haha Windows oh what a joy...) then more cores.