MP 7,1 My thoughts on the 7,1

[skippermonkey]

Okay, single core Cinebench is 416, multi is 9136. MP ratio is 21.95. As expected it's painfully slow with the single CPU – that's not what the machine is designed for – but 24 cores absolutely rips through it. (For comparison my dual 6-core 2.93GHz posted a Single score of 203, and Multi 2931, so happily 2x in single, 3.2x in Multi).

And yes, for seriously large scenes, surely an offline render farm still makes more financial sense?

 

[zzzachi]

Okay, single core Cinebench is 416, multi is 9136. MP ratio is 21.95. As expected it's painfully slow with the single CPU – that's not what the machine is designed for – but 24 cores absolutely rips through it. (For comparison my dual 6-core 2.93GHz posted a Single score of 203, and Multi 2931, so happily 2x in single, 3.2x in Multi).

And yes, for seriously large scenes, surely an offline render farm still makes more financial sense?

thanks! you're the first to post a single core score, i didnt find any on the web !
my old mac pro 2012 single core score is 226, the multi core score is 3355.
i think entry level mac pro has a multi of ±3800 and maybe a tad better single score than yours.
any mac pro 19 will be certainly way snappier to work with than an old mac pro 12 or 13.
but for CPU rendering you must invest into the better CPUs to get a real performance boost.
interesting is that a threadripper 3970X also beats the single score (has 508), i was not sure of that.
but well, that is on the dark side (windows). people interested in that way can pm me about the numbers.

 

[defjam]

Okay, single core Cinebench is 416, multi is 9136. MP ratio is 21.95. As expected it's painfully slow with the single CPU – that's not what the machine is designed for – but 24 cores absolutely rips through it. (For comparison my dual 6-core 2.93GHz posted a Single score of 203, and Multi 2931, so happily 2x in single, 3.2x in Multi).

And yes, for seriously large scenes, surely an offline render farm still makes more financial sense?

IMO the strength of the 2019 Mac Pro is with its configurability. Need CPU power? Configure it with a corresponding CPU. Need memory? You can put up to 1.5TB in it. Need GPU power? Add an MPX module or two. Need PCIe expansion? You've got eight slots to work with. Mix and match to your needs. It represents a return workstation configurability that its cMP ancestors offered.

Welcome back Apple!

 

[AidenShaw]

You've got eight slots to work with.

Really only seven....

 

[tsialex]

Really only seven....

Seven if you boot headless without a GPU. With a GPU installed and the IO card on slot-8, you only have six slots available.