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What kind of pc you have?

Super cheese sandwichSuper cheese sandwich Posts: 633
edited December 1969 in New Users

What kind of pc you have? How much time it takes you to render?


What pc you recommend for me for rapid render? Thanks!

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  • Steven-VSteven-V Posts: 727
    edited December 1969

    Well one question is, are you going to do CPU based rendering or GPU? You will need more VRAM and a better vid card if you go GPU.

    I just bought a new laptop, a Dominator GT72 from MSI. This is a desktop replacement/hardcore gaming laptop, so it is one of the most powerful ones on the market (the only one more powerful is the Titan but I was not going to pay almost $4k for a computer).

    My laptop's stats are:
    24 GB RAM
    i7 4700 series processor
    8 GB VRAM nvidia 980M
    Win 8.1

    A 3delight render with a lot of stuff in it will take a few minutes, maybe 4-8? Depending on what is in it. A render with just a figure and a few props is < 2 min (depending on how many lights, shadows, etc).

    A Reality/LuxRender render with just a figure, a backdrop, and a couple of meshlights will take upwards of 4 hours to render on the CPU. Same scene will render in about 15 minutes GPU. This is stopping at I think 1000 samples/px. I do not have the beta/iray stuff so I can't speak for that.

    I will say that you don't need this much of a beast to render in 3delight. This machine renders maybe 25%, if that, faster than my old PC with 8 GB RAM, 1.5GBVram, 2000series i7. However, it definitely loads scenes a lot faster, and unloads big scenes WAY faster (on the old machine, if I did a render in urban sprawl 2 with some high def figures, and then clicked "new scene" it would lock my whole computer up for 3+ minutes. NOTHING worked. On this machine, that does not happen.)

    I would say for decent performance under 3delight I would recommend 12 GB or more of RAM, 2 GB of Vram, probably at least a 680 or so nVidia vid card. If you want good LuxRender or iray you will probably want more than that in the vRAM category.

  • kaotkblisskaotkbliss Posts: 2,914
    edited December 1969

    A scene I did in Iray had the Urban Future 3 set, 1 Dystopia city block and 2 genesis 2 figures.
    Running CPU it only got to about 40% after 2 hours of rendering.
    When I got my new video card and ran the same scene with GTX 970 and GTX 460 combined, the scene got to 92% in roughly 20-30 minutes

    My PC is
    Windows 7
    AMD Athlon II triple core processor at 3.2 Ghz
    16 GB RAM
    GTX 970 Vid card 4 GB VRAM
    GTX 460 Vid card 1 GB VRAM

  • R25SR25S Posts: 595
    edited April 2015

    if Money dosn`t matter I recomand something like that

    Dell Precision Tower 7910 Workstation

    Processor

    Dual Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2670 v3 (12C, 2.3GHz, Turbo, HT, 30M, 120W)


    Operating System

    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (Includes Windows 8.1 Pro license)


    Memory11

    64GB12 DDR4 at 2133MHz


    Hard Drive

    256GB 2.5" Serial-ATA Solid State Drive


    Graphics Card

    NVIDIA® Quadro® K5200 8GB (2 DP, 2 DL-DVI-I) (2 DP to SL-DVI adapter)


    total cost around 9000 $

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  • The Blurst of TimesThe Blurst of Times Posts: 2,410
    edited April 2015

    I've got a HP laptop that's a quite a few years old now.
    AMD A8-3500 Quad-core APU (with the integrated Radeon 6620), plus a Radeon 6490 with some woefully inadequate amount of video RAM in Crossfire mode
    6GB system RAM
    Win 7.whatever

    It's definitely showing its age, although it has served me well & it was very inexpensive even back in the day.

    I try to set up my scenes so that it's ~2 hours to render in CPU mode with Iray (which is like 6-8+ hours if I used LuxRender, I think). 3Delight is fine, but Iray gives such nice results over a short period of time.

    To be honest, I've turned off 3Delight & I do everything in Iray. Even a short 5 minute render is enough for me to see where the scene is going.

    Yes, you're going to be a lot faster with a fancier rig & a good NVidia card if you do Iray, but even my dated old machine is sufficient for Iray rendering.

    If I had a nicer rig, I'd be doing more with LuxRender.

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,590
    edited December 1969

    For a rapid render I use Octane, all you really need is a reasonable graphics card, RAM helps I have 16 GB even at the price it is it is cheaper than upgrading my PC in any way or buying a new one which is really my only other option.
    I only have an i5 3.5 GHz and a GTX 760 card
    I prefer OR4C (Carrara) to OrDS have both plugins
    before Octane animation in DAZ studio was really not an option for me due to the long rendertimes, I do limit pixel samples a fair bit though.

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