7 replies to this topic

[Brent Greener]

I need to replace one of my PC's and am wondering what it the best thing to get for the fastest and best rendering of 3D fly around. Is it strictly in the processor or does a high end graphics card help?

[Martin Livingston]

Both but a high end video card with its own processing capacity and dedicated RAM go al long way to quick renderings.

[Chris Proost]

I agree, get a high end graphics card. I've got a 5 year old i7 processor but a top of the line NVIDIA ASUS 1080 graphics card and its a beautiful thing.

[Sam Morgan]

Depends on what you're doing.  Once you go into  ray traced in softplan, its all CPU.  GPU doesn't have much to do with it.  Buy the best machine you can and keep it for years!

[Greg Cherry]

It has been a very good year, so I had to decide to give more of my earnings to Uncle Sam or My Business. Guess who won. So I built a new system because it had been a while since the last build and I wanted to get into renderings for presentation.
Purchased a AMD 2990WX cpu and never looked back. It eats renderings for breakfast. I highly recommend it if you are doing a lot of ray traced renderings

[Mike Feinstein]

I researched this topic a while back an found that the best GAMING VIDEO CARD you can afford will work wonders. I use an ASUS laptop and could only afford "middle of the road", the NVIDIA GeForce 940MX. Seems to work OK with both SP and Lumion.

[Brent Greener]

I went with an i7-8700 and the GTX 1070 with 8GB

[Joseph Smith]

My new Alienware R5 17 has i7-8950 and GTX 1070.  Raytrace still sucks for speed, I rarely render, I use Textured mode which uses the graphics processor.  No major change will happen with render quality and speed till Softplan changes their render engine.  We've been discussing this for many years.  Not holding out hope for V2020.