Hi Mate,
This is a ton of information but I just want to educate you more about which PC Components matters the most in these software's you work on
AE and Cinema/Octane/Redshift) This is what I've learnt in the past years from my own experience and research. I may even be wrong about a few things.
I'm from Australia so I will be using $AUD for pricing but feel free to convert it to Pounds
Lets start with CPU:
Cinema 4D and After Effects in majority cases will only utilizes 1 core. Viewport etc. only uses 1 core so having multiple cores wont benefit you but still nice to have. However when you render with Native Cinema 4D renderer which is a CPU render, It will use all the cores provided. After effects unfortunately will only use 1 Core, but with CUDA GPU Acceleration you can get a big improvement on your renders
Your CPU list:
| CPU Name | CORES / THREADS | $PRICE | Recommendation |
| Ryzen 5950x | 16core 32 threads | $1300 | |
| Ryzen 5900x | 12 cores 24 threads | $900 | Recommend |
| Ryzen 5800x | 8 cores 16 threads | $750 | Recommend |
| Ryzen 5600x | 5600x 6 cores 12 threads | $536 | Recommend |
These are the latest Ryzen CPUs and mostly sold out everywhere. More in stock early next year hopefully
You Can always pick the previous Ryzen Gen 3000 Series
(Ryzen 3900x is a great one) which is fairly cheaper priced than the latest one. They are also pretty fast in performance but the 5000 series are just the TOP SHIT ATM
Check out the benchmarks for these CPU:
After Effects Benchmarks:
https: www.pugetsystems.com/pic_disp.php?id=65062
Cinema 4D Benchmarks (Render):
https://www.cgdirector.com/cinebench-r23-scores-updated-results/
If you like Intel i suggest the Intel 10900k and that's pre much all i can recommend from intel, sorry they really falling behind in productivity apps.
Now GPU:
For Redshift and Octane AVOID AMD GPU!!!!
These 2 render engines only support Nvidia Cuda Cores atm. Also your CPU plays very little role in these GPU Render Engines.
These Render Engines scale very well with multiple GPUs. The More the better + Multiple GPUs don't need to match models meaning you can mix and match different GPU models
Unless you want to
NV-LINK/SLI 2x Same GPUs to share VRAM if the GPU supports it.
Nvidia's latest 3000 Series GPU are absolutely amazing for Octane and Redshift!
Depending on how heavy your workload is in these render engines. VRAM plays an important part in selecting the right GPU.
If you tend to always work on small projects or projects that don't use TONS of Textures and doesn't have Billions of Polygons; A GPU with 8 - 11 GB VRAM should be plenty! My GPU Suggestions are:
| GPU | VRAM | $PRICE (Estimation and varies between Brands) | Performance in OCTANE (Higher is Better) | Recommendation |
| Nvidia RTX 3080 | 10GB | $1200 - $1700 | 549 | Recommend |
| Nvidia RTX 3070 | 8GB | $900 - $1100 | 403 | |
| Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti | 8GB | $700 - $900 | 376 | Recommend |
| Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti | 11GB | $1600 - $2K+ | 349 | |
But if you do work with
Heavy Geometry Scenes with alot of 4k - 8k textures and maybe even billions of polygons. 8 - 11 GB Vram will max out very very fast. In fact you will run into crashes alot in this scenario. Octane and Redshift do support "out of core memory" where once the scene uses all of the GPU Memory, it will start using your RAM Memory causing the render to be much slower.
In this Case you want a GPU that has more VRAM. 16GB is the sweet spot for a GPU but Nvidia Current has no BEST 16GB GPU model unless you SLI / NV-LINK 2x GPUs from the 20 Series. Currently from the latest 30 Series GPUs
only RTX 3090 Supports NVLINK So you
can't pair 2x 3060TI and get 16gb VRAM; you will however get the performance of 2x 3060Ti with an Octane Score Avg 752 Points but your 3D Scene can only use 1x GPU VRAM.
Here are the Options:
| GPU | VRAM | PRICE | Performance in OCTANE (Higher is Better) | Recommendation |
| Nvidia RTX 3090 | 24GB | $2400 - $3000 | 658 | Recommend |
| Nvidia RTX Titan | 24GB | $4k - $5k | 380 | |
| Nvidia RTX Quadro 5000 | 16GB | $3400 | 243 | |
| 2x 2080 Ti (Nv-Link) | 11 + 11= 22GB | $3k -$4K | 694 | |
| 2x 2080 Super (Nv-Link) | 8 + 8= 16GB | $2k - $3k | 546 | |
| 2x 2070 Super (Nv-Link) | 8 + 8= 16GB | Under $2K | 520 | Recommend |
After Effects will perform almost neck to neck with any of the GPU listed above when using
"GPU ACCELERATION".
For Octane Benchmarks check out every GPU Scores:
https://render.otoy.com/octanebench...le_by=linear&filter=&singleGPU=0&showRTXOff=0
For Redshift Benchmarks:
https://www.cgdirector.com/redshift-benchmark-results/
RAM:
For Ram not much to cover but i recommend 32GB
(2x 16gb Sticks) with 3000mhz and above speeds.
Power Supply:
If you only use 1 GPU with no plans for expanding. 750Watts or 850Watts. should be enough but you will need to do research depending on what components you end up picking
.
For Multiple GPUs anywhere from 1000Watts to 1600Watts.
Motherboard:
This is another topic for different scenarios. If you decide to go with Ryzen CPU, the best recommendation from me is going
MSI Meg X570 Unify Motherboard!
I picked this Mobo because its a great Mobo for its value ($440) with high features and it allows you to put 2x GPUs and its an absolutely great quality Motherboard!
But honestly you may not need this Mobo and can defiantly get cheaper ones. Look at many videos on Youtube for Ryzen motherboards
Conclusion:
That's a shit load of info to take but I hope I helped you get an idea of what to look for in a CPU / GPU. I Recommend going bang for buck over anything expensive
Understanding your own workload can help you decide easily on what parts to pick over the others! There are tons of videos
