3d Studio Max and 2+CPUs - Core limit ?
- by FreekOne
Hi guys,
I am scouting for parts to put in a new machine, and in the process, while looking at different benchmarks I stumbled upon this benchmark and it got me a bit worried.
Quote form it:
Noticably absent from this review is
an old-time favorite, 3ds Max. I did
attempt to run our custom 3ds Max
benchmark on both the 2009 and 2010
versions of the software, but the
application would simply not load on
the Westmere box with hyper-threading
enabled. Evidently Autodesk didn't
plan far enough ahead to write their
software for more than 16 threads.
Once there is an update that addresses
this issue, I will happily add 3ds Max
back into the benchmarking mix.
Since I was looking at dual hexa-core Xeons (x5650), that would put my future machine at 24 logical cores which (duh) is well over 16 cores and since I'm mostly building this for 3DS Max work, you can see how this would seriously spoil my plans. I tried looking for additional information on this potential issue, but the above article seems to be the only one who mentions it. Could anyone who has access to a 16 core machine or an in-depth knowledge about 3DS Max please confirm this ?
Any help would be much appreciated !
