The Office Set Up

If you are more than one or two people, it makes sense to start optimizing employee computers for modeling and offloading high resolution rendering tasks onto dedicated machines in the office. A very high performance render node can be had for about $7,000-$10,000, so you won’t need on until your cloud rendering budget climbs to about $2,500 per year. Even then, you may want to stick with cloud-based rendering or move to GPU-rendering. It’s a time of transition.

If you go with this setup, take the Ultimate build above, and drop one GPU. Then, the render nodes should be either Ryzen 3970x or 3990x if you use V-Ray or another CPU-first renderer, or a 3960x and four GPUs with enough VRAM for your scene complexity if you use a GPU renderer.