Decent spec for V-Ray PC
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hi all
we're looking to upgrade our V-Ray machine to manage real-time / interactive rendering. have been recommended a machine with following spec:
Xeon W processor
16GB RAM
512GB SSD
2TB Conventional Storage Drive
High-end NVidia RTX 3000 series card with 12GB dedicated RAM
£2,563.15 + VATthe 2TB drive is a separate requirement, but otherwise the main reason for this machine is to run V-Ray for Sketchup as well as possible. I'm afraid I know next to nothing about the hardware, so would appreciate any advice.
What are you running?
Anything above underspec'd?
Have we not got something important?I know you can spend much more on a machine, and we can increase if essential, but I need confidence to lay out 4x more than our other machines cost.
thanks very much
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i guess this is not something that can be answered in this forum?
do let me know if I posted in the wrong place.thanks
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I use Autocad, SketchUp and Twinmotion (real time renderer from Unreal) and Photoshop. I don't use V-Ray, but I know Twinmotion is very demanding as a real time renderer.
System I have deals with it no problem (videos as well) and my spec is:PROCESSOR: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X CPU, 6 Cores / 12 Threads, 3.7 - 4.6GHz
Power Supply: Corsair RM650x 80 PLUS Gold 650W PSU
GRAPHICS CARD: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB Graphics Card
MOTHERBOARD: ASUS ROG STRIX B550-F Motherboard
COOLER: Corsair Hydro H100x CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste: Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Paste
Memory: 64GB DDR4 3200MHz Memory (2 x 32GB Sticks)
OS Drive: 500GB Seagate Firecuda 510 M.2 PCIe SSD
Hard Drives: Seagate 2TB BarraCuda 7200RPM Hard Disk
Windows 11
Warranty: 5 Years Warranty, 2 Years Collect and Return UK only
Total: £1800 (including VAT)
I don't want to mention the company (I don't want to promote anyone here), but you can pm if you want. They are UK based.
I am sure others will chip in here to. -
Don't waste money on a Xeon. 32 GB minimum ram. Get the largest m.2 NVMe ssd you can afford. The RTX 3000 series is good.
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thanks both of you very much for the time - I appreciate it.
we use CPU rendering and apparently we don't need better video card as the current PC (total price £600) manages this aspect fine.
32Gb RAM sounds non-negotiable.
thanks especially for the suggested alternative builds - will look at these now.
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Mainly for CPU or GPU rendering?
What i can say at first sight... a Xeon is not needed, normally overpriced and outdated. And 16GB RAM is definitively not enough. Without knowing the components, it's impossible to say much about this config. But i suppose that at this price everything besides the GPU is more on the cheaper side and the GPU is the most expensive part here.
Video cards are still very rare and absurdly expensive atm.. So if you're planning more for CPU rendering, a smaller card than a 3080 TI could be a better choice. There has been announced a 3070 TI with supposedly 16GB for the next months.
( https://www.tomsguide.com/news/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3070-ti-16gb )
On the other hand it's still possible that the offer isn't that bad, if this is a PC from a bigger manufacturer like Dell or HP and they are still getting GPUs at a lower price. But to say anything about it, we need to know the parts.Here is a config that i would choose at the moment in this price range (for CPU rendering):
Ryzen 9 5950x - 64GB - 500GB+2TB SSD - RTX 3060 12GB
https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=WL-2345494and the same with 3080 TI
Ryzen 9 5950x - 64GB - 500GB+2TB SSD - RTX 3080 TI 12GB
https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=WL-2345529Both configurations with 16 cores, 64GB RAM, only SSDs (no mechanical drive), decent board and good CPU cooler, PSU and case. The only difference is the GPU.
(Not totally sure regarding the board, i would have to look deeper into it. But at least this one comes with 2x PCIe 4.0 16x (for potential GPU rendering upgrades in the future) and 2x M.2 PCIe 4.0 4x for a second fast M.2 SSD.)
For more CPU cores you would need to switch to Ryzen Threadripper, where everything is much more expensive.
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