Maxon Cinema 4D
A Cinema 4D workstation tuned for fast viewports and faster Redshift renders.
Built around a high-clock CPU for snappy modelling and animation, paired with an RTX 50 GPU carrying the VRAM your scenes actually need, plus headroom for After Effects alongside it. From £2199.
- RTX 50 GPU, VRAM that fits your scenes
- 64GB+ DDR5
- Gen5 NVMe
- 5-year warranty
Recommended configurations
Studio Start
Real Cinema 4D and Redshift work without a render-farm budget
£2,199
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D (high clock for smooth viewport, modelling and animation)
- GPU
- NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti 16GB (Redshift CUDA acceleration with sensible VRAM)
- RAM
- 64GB DDR5
- Storage
- 1TB Gen5 NVMe SSD
- Best for
- Freelancers and motion designers running Cinema 4D with Redshift on everyday commercial and broadcast work.
Most popular
Studio Pro
Our recommended balance of viewport speed, render power and VRAM
£3,699
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D (top single-thread for C4D plus 16 cores for sims and After Effects)
- GPU
- NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB (large VRAM, dramatically faster Redshift renders)
- RAM
- 96GB DDR5
- Storage
- 2TB Gen5 NVMe SSD plus 4TB NVMe
- Best for
- Studios pushing heavier scenes, displacement, 4K textures and Cinema 4D paired with After Effects daily.
Render Beast
Maximum Redshift throughput and the VRAM for the biggest scenes
£6,499
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series (many cores for CPU rendering, sims and parallel apps)
- GPU
- Dual NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB, or RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB for the largest scenes
- RAM
- 128GB DDR5
- Storage
- 2TB Gen5 NVMe SSD plus 8TB NVMe
- Best for
- Senior 3D artists and small studios rendering high-complexity scenes who want Redshift to scale across multiple GPUs.
How Cinema 4D and Redshift use your hardware
Cinema 4D leans on different parts of the machine depending on the job, so we match the build to how you actually work.
| Workflow | Recommended CPU | GPU / VRAM | RAM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Modelling and animation in the viewport | High clock speed, Ryzen X3D (single-thread led) | RTX 5070 Ti, 16GB | 64GB DDR5 | |
Redshift GPU rendering (the default renderer) | Ryzen 9 9950X3D, strong all-round | RTX 5090, 32GB (more VRAM, far quicker) | 96GB DDR5 | |
Heavy sims, CPU rendering and After Effects together | Threadripper, high core count | Dual RTX 5090 or RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | 128GB DDR5 |
The single most important call is VRAM. Redshift is the default GPU renderer in Cinema 4D, and once a scene exceeds your card's VRAM it falls back to slower out-of-core rendering. We size the GPU to your scene complexity rather than to a spec-sheet headline.
Why CREATE PCs
We size the GPU to your scenes, not the spec sheet
We ask what your typical scenes look like before recommending VRAM, because the right card for displacement-heavy Redshift work is very different from the right card for clean motion graphics.
Balanced for the whole pipeline, including After Effects
Cinema 4D rewards a high-clock CPU for the viewport while After Effects and simulations want cores and RAM, so we build a machine that stays fast across the round-trip rather than over-spending in one place.
Hand-built in Stevenage and backed for 5 years
Every Cinema 4D workstation is assembled, cable-managed and stress-tested by hand here in the UK, then covered by our 5-year warranty so a busy studio is never left waiting.