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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

How Cinema 4D and Redshift use your hardware
 WorkflowRecommended CPUGPU / VRAMRAM
Modelling and animation in the viewport
High clock speed, Ryzen X3D (single-thread led)RTX 5070 Ti, 16GB64GB DDR5
Redshift GPU rendering (the default renderer)
Ryzen 9 9950X3D, strong all-roundRTX 5090, 32GB (more VRAM, far quicker)96GB DDR5
Heavy sims, CPU rendering and After Effects together
Threadripper, high core countDual RTX 5090 or RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell128GB 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.

Cinema 4D PCs FAQs

How much RAM do I need for Cinema 4D?

Maxon lists 16GB as the minimum, but for serious work we treat 64GB as the sensible baseline and fit more on heavier builds. If you run Cinema 4D and After Effects side by side, or work with large simulations and caches, 96GB to 128GB keeps everything responsive without swapping to disk.

Is Cinema 4D more about the CPU or the GPU?

It is genuinely both, which is why balance matters. Modelling and animation in the viewport are largely single-threaded, so a high-clock CPU like a Ryzen X3D feels snappy, while Redshift is the default renderer and is GPU-driven, so render times come down to the graphics card and its VRAM.

Do I need a professional or workstation GPU like the RTX PRO series?

For most Cinema 4D and Redshift users a GeForce RTX 50 card is the better value and is fully supported. A professional card such as the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell only earns its place when you genuinely need its very large VRAM for extreme scenes, or you want to stack several cards in one chassis.

Can Cinema 4D and Redshift use more than one GPU?

Yes. Redshift scales very well across multiple NVIDIA GPUs, so adding a second card can meaningfully cut render times. We build multi-GPU systems on our top tier with the cooling and power supply headroom to run them reliably under sustained load.

Do you preinstall Cinema 4D on the machine?

We do not preinstall Cinema 4D, as it is licensed to you through your Maxon subscription and is best installed under your own account. We ship every workstation tested, updated and ready, so you simply sign in to Maxon and download it on first boot.