Hardware Upgrades for Shorter rendering times?

Hello,
Im a visual artist looking for any help in hardware reccomendations.
Im trying to render a single image sized at 36 x 49 inches at 300dpi (image is 255.6m)
estimated render time is 14 days 3 hours 26 min
Any tips would be hugely appreciated! Im looking to upgrade asap.
This is my current Hardware :
Macbook Pro Retina display early 2013
Processor 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB
Cheers!

yauwing2 wrote:
If you want to do this often in PhotoShop, you may need to upgrade to a Mac Pro with 12 Core CPU, d700 graphic option and 64GB RAM
That's not enough. The Mac Pro has unprecedented memory bandwidth, but from only one processor package. That's a severe limitation in my book.
I suggest instead you consider a dual-Xeon workstation configuration. Apple doesn't offer that kind of compute power (yet) in the new cylindrical design.
Right now today you can get a Dell T5610 with e.g., dual Xeon E5-2650 processors. That has a total of 16 cores in two packages. It may be possible, through custom configuration, to have Dell build one with as many as 24 cores on tap (12 per package, with independent memory channels to each E5-2697 v2 package). Having independent memory channels is the real advantage of having multiple packages.
I also noticed that the newest Intel Xeons have more QPI links - meaning one might expect to see 4 package designs built around, say, the 15 core E7-4890V2 within the next couple of years.
-Noel

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