12 cores mac pro or 16 cores Dell Precision T7600

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good morning
I have to buy a new computer for video editing and I'm undecided between the 12 cores mac pro and the 16 cores dell Precision T7600 which is dual eight cores xeon.
What are the benefit and limits of these 2 systems for video rendering and 3D ?
my 7 years macpro is slowing down even with 4 cores xeon 3 ghz
thanks
 

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my 7 years macpro is slowing down even with 4 cores xeon 3 ghz

Other than the performance of your current Mac Pro…is there any other reason you are dissatisfied with Macintosh computers or the Mac OS?

If not...why not just get the newer 12-Core Mac Pro??:)

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Does the software you use have the facility to use that many cores? Remember also that with each additional core comes some overhead in managing the division of labor. There will be a diminishing return for each additional split.
 

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Will make several "assumptions"

You're using an app that is available for Windows or OS X.

You're comparing the X5675 and the E5-2687W.

This is purely a business machine.

Either one of them will blow the doors off your 7 year old MP.

The latter scores almost double the former in the NovaBench test.
Maxwell Render has it rendering in 2/3 the time.

When you're talking $6500-$7500 before RAM/video card you want, $1k extra seems to me to be a no brainer here if it can truly cut your render times by a third. "Assuming" your software can make use of all those cores.

If this machine is mixing as personal use - that's going to make it harder if you prefer OS X over Windows.
 
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thank you Pigoo3, Macinwin and Bobtomay. I learned more today , I'll buy the new in january but now my boss wants the tesla processor inside the graphic card added for speed ,so I have to see if the Macpro offers it.
And I wonder if you know why it took 27 hours for a conversion of a DVD movie into an AVI file , with my MacPro 4 cores xeon 3ghz , I think it's too slow
Thanks and good night
 

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