Please suggest a PC build that can easily take on 3D modelling and rendering for my uni degree.
Some people suggested that I should go for a high powered CPU like R9 5900x and RTX3070 for the GPU.
I would really appreciate any input. I couldn't find any pre built PCs in my budget.
Thanks!!
Cheers for that! Is 5600x sufficient for modelling and rendering as compared to 5900x? Or the difference is minimal?
Not a fan of that RTX 3070 @ $1700! wow. That's woeful - you could almost get an RTX 3080 for that price (and it's got 2GB more VRAM).
At previous prices I'd probably have recommend the RTX 3060 with its 12GB as an interim, it's got more VRAM for loading assets into memory for rendering too.
Here's a comparison of the RTX 3060 and RTX 3070 in Blender. https://youtu.be/cP0ifLyDxXM
And here's a nice comparison of both team Red and team Green in Blender and other rendering engines. https://youtu.be/3r6TasObpRU
If you manage to pick up a good priced RTX 3060, you might be able to get 2 for around the same price as that RTX 3070 listed, and you'll be able to use both with the right Mobo in Blender with pretty much linear scaling.
With GPU prices going up again though, if you can get a 3080 for $1700-$1800.. jump on that instead.
https://www.pugetsystems.com usually have some pretty good comparisons with CPU and GPU rendering.
Blender wasn't amongst the list, but you could get a version of Blender with Octane for free for 1 GPU - https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=72241
If you needed a Laptop - maybe this? https://www.centrecom.com.au/asus-rog-strix-g513qy-156-wqhd-…
Otherwise go for what Hybroid suggested
What software will you be using?
Pretty easy to find tonnes of benchmarks for various modelling/rendering software out there that will tell you whether or not to go big on CPU or not.
The software will tell you on their website what the minimum/recommended specs are.
The Rhino specs are basically any CPU or GPU made in the past 10 years. Blender says a GPU with 12GB+ RAM which is crap, an 8GB 3070 smokes a 16GB 6800XT thanks to RTX cores.
With rendering they generally assume people understand their own requirements. It's not like gaming where you need to know what will run it at 30fps, rendering comes down to the more hardware you throw at it the less time it takes and it's very specific to the workflow.
Rhino 3D mostly and maybe blender later on
Ah, cool. They both use Cycles renderer so same hardware for both
I'm no expert, I've just tinkered a bit over the years but for anything not using Cycles, basically Rhino just needs a fast as blazes single core, so you might be a lot better off saving with a 5600x (or if you don't need it straight away, Alder Lake looks to have amazing single core speeds on the i5-12600K). It won't make use of RTX cores either. So particularly early on in the class you can probably get away with whatever you already have.
Also buy 32GB of RAM. RAM prices are hard but upgrading RAM sucks as it's nice to get matched pairs with Ryzen.
The McNeel forums aren't a bad place to hunt around for a recent thread on what to buy too - https://discourse.mcneel.com/ - they're the Rhino developer.
Thanks m8! I shall look into it.
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Tweak as you see fit.