Guest supernova Posted June 15, 2010 Report Share Posted June 15, 2010 im looking for another mac, and the i7 claims to, via hyperthreading, have 4 CORES. does that mean I can successfully use 4 cameras with renderama? Assuming I have at least 2 gigs of ram per camera? Is it a TRUE 4 core, or a slower version of it in some way... HELP.... anyone doing this for animation... or after effects as well thanks Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantomaz Posted June 15, 2010 Report Share Posted June 15, 2010 Hi Scott, i use the i7 iMac with 8GB RAM and use the 4 hardwarecores with 2GB per Camera. In case of lowpoly projects, i switch to 6-7 Cameras with around 1,1GB per Camera to also use the virtual cores. Works like a horse! iMac i7 comes with 4 cores and via hyperthreading he has 8 cores. fantomaz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juanxer Posted June 15, 2010 Report Share Posted June 15, 2010 Hyperthreading is a way of taking advantage of the idle sections of a core for executing a second thread: it adds extra circuitry to eliminate the cost of repeatedly switching between threads, and shows it all that as if it was a second core. You can't get a 100% gain, of course, but I think up to 30% is plausible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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