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Apologies if this has been answered. I can find specific threads about PC builds for Octane in general, but this is more about how C4D interacts with Octane, specifically the amount of time it takes to pass a complex scene from C4D > the Octane plugin.

I'm building a new PC, and as I do mostly After Effects work, it's currently looking like it's going to be a 6850k with 64Gb RAM as it seems fewer threads (and higher single core speed) = better performance in After Effects, because newer builds of After Effects aren't optimised at all for multi threading.

I know C4D is multi-threaded (for internal rendering at least) but does the C4D>Octane plugin take advantage of extra cores? For example, would a complex scene compile crom C4D > Octane faster with a 6950x, or with a way cheaper 6800k? In After Effects the 6800k wins hands down! In C4D's Physical Renderer the 6950x would win by a very wide margin. But which one would be most advatagoes for the C4D > Octane plugin?

And yes, I know it won't affect actual render speed at all (I have 2x GTX 1080's for that), but how does it affect the compile time?

Just curious

Rich

In plugin most parts are single-threaded. Except volume object or scatter object or a few particular places. So processing scene data and interactivity depends to single cpu power.
But processing and preparing of translated c4d data to octane is still a process in CPU and goes in multi-cpus until render starts.