First render test on new laptop

Bryan K · 20 Sept 2022, 23:39

Finally got a new laptop. Here is the result of my first render test. 15 minutes. 400 passes. The brass lattice on the wall would have caused my old laptop have taken 4-6 hours at best.

Not a perfect render. Just a test. Model from the Warehouse. No mods or fixes.

Almost no aliasing. Wow.

ntxdave · 21 Sept 2022, 01:06

Good news sir. Would you mind sharing the info about the laptop you bought?

Bryan K · 21 Sept 2022, 02:49

@ntxdave said:

Good news sir. Would you mind sharing the info about the laptop you bought?

Thanks!

Sure.

Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 15.6" Laptop Computer Platinum Collection - Grey.

AMD Ryzen 7 6800H 3.2GHz Processor; NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB GDDR6; 16GB DDR5-4800 RAM; 512GB Solid State Drive.

$800 total including tax from Microcenter, USA.

ntxdave · 21 Sept 2022, 03:01

Thanks for the info.

HornOxx · 21 Sept 2022, 08:57

...ja, good news! - at some point in "this game" there always comes a point where we have to catch up with our computers.

Rich O Brien · 21 Sept 2022, 09:43

A 16x to 32x speed boost is some leap.

Its a good time to move to 20xx or 30xx nVidia GPUs with the 40xx announcement.

Looking forward to seeing that Nadesico Cruiser getting some path tracing love!

Mike Amos · 21 Sept 2022, 16:14

tuna1957 · 21 Sept 2022, 18:01

Good to see you up and running on the new machine . Looking forward to new work

Bryan K · 21 Sept 2022, 22:18

Thanks everyone!

I will be putting it into production by this weekend. I'm waiting on a new dock and then adding all the plug-ins I use, back to SU. My old dock only works on the old laptop. It's an old click mount dock.

New dock has the USB C that I need.

Bryan K · 21 Sept 2022, 22:20

@rich o brien said:

A 16x to 32x speed boost is some leap.

Its a good time to move to 20xx or 30xx nVidia GPUs with the 40xx announcement.

Looking forward to seeing that Nadesico Cruiser getting some path tracing love!

Already got a scene in mind!

Bryan K · 21 Sept 2022, 23:52

1000 samples (passes) in 24 minutes. My... my head hurts.

I put a little more effort into this render and changed the lighting settings, which made it run even faster.

ntxdave · 22 Sept 2022, 00:56

Real progress from the first post. Me likey!

Bryan K · 22 Sept 2022, 02:37

Thanks ntxdave!

tuna1957 · 22 Sept 2022, 03:59

Excellent start with the new machine

Bryan K · 10 Jan 2022, 07:40

Thanks tuna!

Again, these are just test renders. I see problems with both, but this is just to get an idea of what the new PC can do.

Mike Amos · 22 Sept 2022, 20:58

You are clearly on the fast track mate.

Bryan K · 23 Sept 2022, 23:00

@mike amos said:

You are clearly on the fast track mate.

Thanks Mike!

Just got it set up with the new dock and it is now my desk production PC. The old one s going to the bedroom for late night YouTube.

Still need to load all the plug-ins back to SU and do some other tweaking, but the hard parts are done.

Bryan K · 2 Oct 2022, 04:04

After a full week of testing and configuring the new laptop, here is the update.