The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Buying a Computer for Blender

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This video discusses the different options available for and tries to assess the best computer for blender.
Chapters
00:00
00:25 - What budget is a low/mid budget machine?
01:23 - minimum spec for Blender?
01:58 - Blender on very slow machines
02:21 - What to do if you can't afford a decent machine
03:33 - Main Components
03:50 - CPU central Processing Unit
06:55 - GPU Graphics Processing Unit
07:48 - Denoise
09:07 - Introducing the optimum PC
10:02 - low/Mid Budget PC Specs
10:20 - Chosen CPU - Ryzen 5 5600x
11:51 - GPU - RTX3060
12:18 - RAM 16GB
13:25 - Storage - SSD's vs HHD
14:27 - Power supply
14:50 - Cooling
15:20 - Testing the mid/low budget PC
16:05 - laptops?
16:37 - Macs?
18:18 - Second hand Computers?
The suggested mid/low budget creator PC for Blender is as follows:
CORSAIR CARBIDE SERIES™ 200R COMPACT GAMING CASE
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Six Core CPU (3.7GHz-4.6GHz/35MB CACHE/AM4)
ASUS® PRIME B550-PLUS (DDR4, USB 3.2, 6Gb/s) - ARGB Ready!
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 8GB)
12GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3060 - HDMI, DP, LHR
1TB PCS PCIe M.2 SSD (2200 MB/R, 1500 MB/W)
Power Supply CORSAIR 650W CV SERIES™ CV-650 POWER SUPPLY
Change to: CORSAIR 650W CX-M Series™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® BRONZE
PCS FrostFlow 100 V3 Series High Performance CPU Cooler (AMD)
2x 120mm Black Case Fan (configured to extract from rear/roof)
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD
Windows 11 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KK3-00027]
Thanks to Nvidia & PC Specialist for the advice and supplying the test computer
www.pcspecialist.co.uk/tracki...
www.nvidia.com/
Blender Benchmark: opendata.blender.org/
- Blender Benchmark is fully free and open source software
- The data provided by the community is public domain and everyone is welcome to explore it
- The project welcomes contributors to improve and extend its functionality. More info at opendata.blender.org/about/.
Grants Learn Blender fast short course: www.gamedev.tv/p/low-poly-lan...
My Website: www.gabbitt.co.uk
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My PC specs
CPU - AMD RYZEN 9 5950X
GPU - RTX 3090
RAM - 128GB

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@MWSculpts 2 года назад

Personally the timing of this could not have been better as I am currently researching a build specifically for Blender use. Thanks Grant for this fantastic video!

@anthonyzornig Год назад

Thanks for sharing the info that you are/ were sponsored. Great transpenrency ! Thx !

@jeremythompson1905 Год назад

Normally I tend to frown at videos over 10 mins, bc ppl tend to ramble on or fumble a lot. This is so concise and you cover so much data that I don’t think is being talked about. Like you want fast renders? You want to push your computer during development? Start here. Not that you can’t optimize but this is how you get the bang for your Buck.

@proudindian0212 2 года назад

Thanks Grant, I've been looking for such a video for quite some time but there was none until this came. Thanks mate!!

@Gavrev 2 года назад

Nice oversight man! I find it interesting that your latter day general recommendation sits around the £1200 mark, which was pretty much bang on to my total purchase cost at the end of 2017 - a self-built affair, and a very welcome upgrade, from a 10+ year old PC. At the time GPU's were a bit over RRP (not as bad as it has been of late), but I managed to offset the cost (an EVGA GTX-1070SC) with the CPU (Ryzen 1600) which was only £136 at a time when the going RRP was £229. All in all I've been happy with it but it's nice to find you making this video. A lot is often spoken of about gaming performance but not so often with productivity. The most crucial part does seem to be the complexity of the various ways in which software like Blender may choose to use your system resources, which appears to make the difference when it comes to component priority. In this respect I get the feeling the quality of PC's lifespan with respect to performance doesn't actually change as much as I imagined, or maybe that's just my perspective having last made good on a 10 year iteration! Perhaps with all the above in mind my own system will be plenty good for at least another five years before I'd notice a significant difference.

@iandonkin6762 Год назад

The best video I’ve seen to help with blender specific PC’s - it’s a minefield out there, but I am pretty sure that my son is going to be happier for me having watched this and being able to guide him from a better informed viewpoint. Of course he will want to game on the same PC so it’s still not going to be all plain sailing! Thanks for sharing your thoughts 👍

@derekmoore1387 11 месяцев назад

You’re a blessing for novices like me who are growing into things. As always, I appreciate everything you do!

@kenkioqqo 2 года назад

I always gain a lot of vital information about Blender-related subjects from all your videos, Grant. Am planning to assemble a PC for Blender next week, and this is just the kind of advice I needed.

@8Steady Год назад

Thanks for a great video. It's a good concise overview of a complicated topic.

@capawesome3d988 2 года назад

Ill resume it: Get at least a Ryzen 5 5600X,, RTX 3070 (3060 is good enough), 32gb ram and SSD. thats it. :D

@grabbitt 2 года назад

m.2 SSD i think just for the extra tiny bit of speed :) also 16GB of RAM is ok and on testing the machine with some dense scenes it worked fine

@eliaslns7143 2 года назад

@@grabbitt i do have 8 ram

@rizkyirawan5952 2 года назад

You guys think i5 12400 gen 12 good enough ? Need the budget for upgrade my gpu to 3070, right now im using rx570

@InferomInferthAMANth Год назад

@@rizkyirawan5952 Bro have you settled for 12400?

@notdarkpark Год назад

Is 3050 good? Found a pc that’s in my price range but it says 3050

@only1schmiddy 2 года назад

Completely new to Blender and rendering in general but I tinker in AutoCAD for 3d printing so I'm trying to use Blender sculpting in particular for the more organic forms that autocad battles with. But once you start with one thing in Blender it's a rabbit hole with all it can do. Love your videos as they are easy to follow and very informative. Thanks for all the hard work you put into your videos.

@bumstudios8817 2 года назад

Wait til you slide to unity or unreal… lol real time is the way to go!

@capalmer2495 2 года назад

Very good and helpful. Solid advice. Appreciate it!

@hugodus 2 года назад

Thank youu!! This video is exactly what i was looking for!

@thereturnofX420 Год назад

grant always coming through with great content for the blender community

@RoseKindred 2 года назад

Thank you. I really needed this. I am looking at pre-builts now because I want to move on to sculpting and my current one weeps thermal paste.

@Justin_Black Год назад

Wow, thank you so much! this is exactly what I was looking for!

@chaerazard 6 месяцев назад

Thank you this information was very helpful for me, I really appreciate the hard work you put into this video

@were2man Год назад

quite informative and timely video. thank you

@devformation 2 года назад

Right on time! Upgrading my machine)

@smeech5177 Год назад

Thank you for this. I couldn’t do much with my water damaged MAC 😅. So this video is perfect and have been saving up money for something really good!

@thelaughinghyenas8465 2 года назад

A nice, clear discussion that goes through the issues. Little if any BS.

@kellya.9219 Год назад

Great video! I've been using blender for about 2 years. I've upgraded my laptop partially for gaming and partially so I had a machine that could handle several design programs open at once without lighting on fire and crashing. I invested in Alienware r7 with Nvidia 3080 and Intel i7. Hope it does the job well with blender 🤞🤞

@mitthrawnuruodo1730 2 года назад

Video came at the perfect time! I have a Mac but realize that it isn’t the best for blender and was wondering about getting another laptop.

@BMH1965 Год назад

Don't go above 16 core CPU as the extra cores not only cost a lot more there is a huge core speed drop off above 16 cores (meaning single speed is reduced). The current cost of GPU mean that the new 40xx mid-level examples are closely priced to the low-level.

@CGSTUDENT15 7 месяцев назад

ah thnx for this looking for this type of video for a long time thnx

@yorkipudd1728 Год назад

I bought Lenovo legion 15 Ryzen7 5800h 3060 to use on external monitors. Faster than the suggested 5600x in laptop form. Screen is crap, but it flies after swapping for 32GB 3200ram. £899 Currys UK plus 90 for memory. I'm happy with it. 2 bios updates in 2 months made it cooler and a little quieter fan wise.

@tvs3497 Год назад

Good to know. I've started putting a system together; i7 10th Gen 16 core CPU, 32GB RAM, Win 11. I wasn't sure what GPU to get so for now I just stuck an old GeForce 1030 2GB in it. It does okay in Eevee rendering but Cycles is out of the question. I suspect the graphics card is going to be 40% of my total budget, maybe more since I plan on using this box in a commercial endeavor. Thanks for the info.

@johntnguyen1976 2 года назад

This was a stonkingly great video!

@grabbitt 2 года назад

🙂

@suanarts6033 Год назад

Thank you so much for this wonderful video

@DanielTDesign Год назад

Thanks for this video! 👍

@joshuagalang5247 Год назад

Thank you for this video! Now i wasnt wrong choosing 5700x and 3060ti instead for my blender since i was having hard time sculpting from 5600g.

@bme4285 Год назад

Great video as usual

@banano24 2 года назад

Perfect I was planing to buy a pc soon

@3DBlendMix Год назад

Great important tutorial thanks

@goosel8955 2 года назад

Bro... Right time.. Just searched it for help. You popped up again!!!!!!

@SaltedMallows 2 года назад

Using chapter categories for a video like this would be majorly helpful for referencing this guide.

@grabbitt 2 года назад

Thanks I completely forgot

@SaltedMallows 2 года назад

@@grabbitt Thank You for considering them

@thearcanegearsmith4885 2 года назад

I am learning Blender. Just had my old computer die after a power outage , mainly a bad system on my NVMe but it convinced my wife for me to upgrade instead of paying someone $250 to come fix the computer. it was a 5930K on a Asus Rampage V (10th anniversary board) 64gb ddr4 2133 and a 1660 Super. Graphics card is still good. There where already issues with the board and GPU not liking each other. Anyway, COST and availability are key for fast replacement. Was wanting to wait for Zen 5 but prices are going to be crazy expensive and I am semi-retired on a limited budget. I just bought a MOSTLY basic AM4 system . I am cash strapped. Ordered a B550 Taichi (which I had already ordered a couple weeks ago to begin upgrades). With a $450 budget I got : 32gb G.Skill Ripjaws V cl 18 3600mhz kit, a 5600 (non x) because I can't wait 10 days for it, I will upgrade to a 5900x or 5950 when I can. Even the 5600 will more than DOUBLE the speed of my current CPU, and the 5900 0r 5950 is QUADRUPLE the CPU performance. I plan on working in Blender a lot more. I will be getting a pen display after I learn more in Blender.

@eliaslns7143 2 года назад

Hey great video idea , i use a matebook to design and it works kinda good , again great video idea

@Snowaxe3D 2 года назад

I have GTX 1660 6Gb, and It's not the best but it does the job nicely. And I agree with the point that, It's better to get a tower PC instead of a laptop, Hardware sounds the same but performs differently. Before this, I used to work on a 7yr old laptop with AMD r5, The rendering time for me had changed a lot, previously at 500 samples my laptop took about 1 hour to render 1 frame, My New PC render the same in just a few seconds.

@Pesto-64 2 года назад

I needed a laptop for travel and wanted to do some Blender on the road and learn Grease Pencil. So I bought a Surface Pro 8 (16 GB RAM) mostly for the pen support. I hope it can handle my “lighter” Blender scenes and GP stuff

@thebritishengineer8027 2 года назад

I have built one or two performance machines in the past from work stations, to servers and gaming PC's. My current build was designed purposely for Blender where I regularly work with 3.8+ Gigabyte model files. My advice, you must have PCIe 4.0 and two fast PCIe 4.0 NVMe drives a 500Gb for the OS (Linux is best and 25% faster with Blender) and a 1Tb for your work in progress, I also use a 2Gb standard SATA for on machine archive. Video card, due to the price hike I'm still running an 8Gb RX 5700 which is a good card for Blender. Going AMD/Intel well that's personal preference, I like AMD's Ryzen 7 5800x it has a decent Core clock and is well priced. Your going to to torture the mainboards VRM's, MSI build some nice X57 mainboards with this in mind but read the reviews... they have also made some crap my own board is the the MSI Tomahawk X570. For power a decent PSU with true 700 watt delivery. 16Gb of RAM in 2x8Gb's, it's cheaper and your going to need another 2x8Gb's... yes your going to populate all four memory slots eventually. CASE be conservative it's a metal box spend your cash on performance. Cooling, don't skimp. Air cooling is cost effective water cooling is quieter if you know what you are doing. Clossed loop stuff off the shelf is good if you can get good deals I got a Corasir H81 for the CPU that seems to do a geat job. Screens.. I use 2x 27" curved screens on a 3rd party central mount. Try and get something with 140+MHz refresh it's better on your eyes, anything over 2K is bollocks. Your eye can't actually see it and it's pointless for Blender.(I assume I will get comments on that). Audio for tunes while you work.... sorry PC speakers/headsets market is so full of cheap crap with a high price tag I'm lost. If your listen to anything after 1986 or rap buy any old crap. I used to sell decent Hi Fi (no boss or bang & olufson) so I have a trusty pair of Bowers & Wilkins MM-01's for film and classical music. You may not get what you want for £1200, but you can move towards it. Buy what you need now with a view to adding to it. One last point. empty your temp folder every week and don't fill your SSD's past 84%. Well that's it from me, this was a bit long but hope it helps.

@JordanMatyka 2 года назад

wow, is Blender really that much faster on Linux? Is that for any specific Blender aspect (sculpting, sims, rendering?) or overall?

@peca007 Год назад

@@JordanMatyka AFAIK it is due to bad Windows task scheduler. May be there is another reason but at overall Blender is way faster on Linux even in rendering.

@JordanMatyka Год назад

@@peca007 I really need to start using Linux at home

@asafilms Год назад

Cool! And i want video like this about laptop for blender

@jameslabs1 2 года назад

Thanks very helpful.

@stephsnerdystuff1656 2 года назад

This was amazing timing, thank you! I've been looking at the Ryzen 9 5950X and after hearing you say it was in yours, I'm sold on it haha. Can I ask what cpu cooler and mobo you use for your set-up? Thanks!

@grabbitt 2 года назад

I'll try and find out🙂

@simpmaster6240 Год назад

Really good video,i like the way you go with this because you are talking a lot about regular medium spec rigs,not a PCs that cost 20k plus lol. For blender you can really work fine with any medium range chip 2-3 years old,but i think GPU must have at least 8GB of ram. So for people who dont have lots of money to spend Ryzen 5 2600x and RTX 2060super with 16gb of ram would work just fine with blender,all this components are 2-3 years old so not that expensive but still nice. But there is a catch for serious sculpting and modeling in milions of polygons requirements are far higher than this,so for this job you need i9/ryzen9 cpu anything bellow would just be pain in ashh. On the current marker best CPU for this job is a Threadripper PRO 3995WX,it would literally wipe the floor with every i9 or any other ryzen CPU,but yea lol...it's a $7.000,this is only for rich kids :D.

@ChillieGaming Год назад

Excited as I will be getting a new pc after 6 years.

@atillameteturedi1700 Год назад

Hey Grant, thanks for all the content. Wondering if you are planning to do an optimization video on PC configs like drivers and NVIDIA settings and so on to get the most out?

@grabbitt Год назад

Not got any specific plans for that

@gdog8170 2 года назад

I am running lates blender on my a4-5300b by a miracle blender is indeed amazing

@dwuk99 Месяц назад

Just came across your excellent video. Spent quite a while yesterday specing up a PC (by coincidence PC specialist) and using the blender benchmarks, I am currently using a Mac M1 - and it is working quite well on EEVEE - but really slows down on Cycles. Compared lots of configurations and what I am thinking is a Ryzen 7950X CPU, Nvidia 12gb 4070 Super, 32GB Ram, 1TB SSD - CPU benchmark 554 - which is 583% my Mac, GPU benchmark 6361 which is 2,485% my Mac. Comes out about £1,645 on PC specialist. Interesting what you say about Linux - might try that when I get it is it speeds up the rendering. Am thinking that will mainly continue using the Mac for the actual modelling, with the PC possibly in another room (due to noise) for the rendering.

@carstenbang3410 Год назад

Hi Grant Abbitt. Thanks for a very informative and explaining video. As I'm in the research of my next build, a Blender rendering PC. It would be even better if maybe you can reveal which motherboard, PC Tower, and Power supply you have in your setup. Thanks in advance for addressing this topic....;-)

@grabbitt Год назад

I will have to put that together at some point

@constantinezh7156 2 года назад

Normals enabled in viewport with Eevee, man. That's what slows mine down the most. Gotta disconnect them all when working with eevee viewport, then connect before rendering. A plugin to enable/disable all normal maps in Blender with one click would be magnificent.

@paranoiia8 2 года назад

That would be cool to have as actuall option but sadly they can't put simple switch for swapping green channel on normalmap node when you work on dx normals format... So yeah... We can just dream about it..

@hasnatkias7376 2 года назад

Finally !!!!! Thank you Grant

@maaaksikk2122 Год назад

thx you helped me a lot

@BlackoutGamingChannel 2 года назад

you need to put 0:00 in the timestamps to get it to show as official chapters otherwise its just links to time locations. still works but may as well take advantage :)

@grabbitt 2 года назад

Thanks

@BlackoutGamingChannel 2 года назад

@@grabbitt I think it's a bit silly that it doesn't recognize it if you don't out 0:00 timestamp but hey, here we are

@BlackoutGamingChannel 2 года назад

@@grabbitt you might need to title it like 0:00 intro

@ShagunDamadia 2 года назад

I use RTX 3060 and Ryzen 5 3600, works pretty good for me. Sometimes it crashes when using 4K textures, but with patience it does good job.

@chaosordeal294 Год назад

A 3060 should be able to toss around 4K textures like nothing.

@ShagunDamadia Год назад

@@chaosordeal294 You are right, but when having a lot of models, it's not really butter smooth. Example, when I first tried Kitbash 3D set, everything had 4K textures but it continued to crash again and again, then I had to work in new file with few 4k files and some 2K. It can happen with any GPU to be honest, it's important to learn how to optimize your workflow rather than blaming the setup every time.

@stuartfury3390 Год назад

@@chaosordeal294 12gb vram is barely enough for 4k textures a lot of the time.

@BarbaOlof Год назад

Maybe a question for a Linux forum, but since I’m here I might ask… If I’m aiming for a Blender machine running Linux, would that impact the choice between Intel and AMD CPU? Have a Surface Pro 8 and an old i5-750 (first gen i5!) with a GTX 1060. Both sort of works for modelling, but the render times are loooooong.

@derivepi6930 2 года назад

Blender Benchmark needs to put a script together to properly test CPUs. Just built my own Blender computer and it is a 5600x with 3070 ti 32 gb 3200 ram and 1 tb SSD. Fiddled with it and got it to outperform on Blender Benchmark score.

@eliaslns7143 2 года назад

Almost 400k let's go 😃

@killorfill6953 11 месяцев назад

Hi Grant, please could you prepare an update to this video for this year's new options based on current availability now this has completely changed? Really appreciate it, thanks.

@theresan534 2 года назад

I'm using a 13inch laptop 8gb ram without dedicated graphic card, it's enough for me to learn different tools and create something light, only one single object in each creation.. I'm 3 month in. if my level goes up more and I still doing it by end of this year I will upgrade

@Vulguse Год назад

I got a 1060, i5-8400 and 8 GB of RAM, It's sometimes struggling with big scene or detailed models but I actually prefer to wait for the rtx 4000 release this year. I'll get 32 GB of RAM at the same time.

@ChillieGaming Год назад

dude get 64gb pls trust me bro. 32 is the new 16. get 64 they are cheap like only $300 to $400 just 100 dollar more than 32gb ram. 64gb ddr4 are cheap nowadays so get this one.

@richardshenton4371 2 года назад

One aspec id like clarity on is the use of multiple GPU's , from what i have read there seems to be a case for using them esp for rendering.

@grabbitt 2 года назад

Yes. They have to be the same but yes it makes a big difference

@IrocZIV Год назад

Good info. I wish Blender had a built in benchmark for edit or sculpt mode. I'm very curious how memory speed and cache affect usability. Looking at CPU render times seems almost pointless, with GPUs being so fast. When I tried to render with my GPU and CPU it actually slowed the render down, vs just rendering on the GPU

@stevenlitvintchouk3131 Год назад

This is well known, to the point that some of those "Blender for Beginners" tutorials recommend setting Blender to NOT render on both the CPU and GPU.

@hamed-kavoosi Месяц назад

thank you

@DilophoMS 2 года назад

I use it on an old Phenom II 955 with R9 290 and 8GB RAM without major problems.

@Larry-Jiao 2 года назад

Love the looping computer programming background for selecting computer hardware 😂

@grabbitt 2 года назад

yeah that's cool and from Pexels. they have lots of CC0 videos :)

@md.khalidhasan759 Год назад

I have a rtx 3070, ryzen 3600, 32gb ram. I want to do animation and simulation very efficiently. But my pc is not doing that well for animation. I can't preview well the animation before rendering. I think the problem with processor. Can you suggest me one mid range and one upper budget high end cpu for my pc?

@vishisht8688 2 года назад

Was looking for something like this for months to help me out as I am doing most of my work on laptop and due to its limitations, I am looking forward to get an assembled pc. My query is this that I am on a limited budget and am thinking for getting some parts second hand and other new. Like monitor second hand and ram and GPU new, so in your opinion, which monitor should I go for in terms for 2560x1440p display as recommended or something better with what specifications?

@grabbitt 2 года назад

Check reputable reviewers. The Main issue is the quality of the colour rather than the refresh rate for blender artists

@austinedwards6334 Год назад

In this video, you said the Mac doesn't come with a graphics card? Mine has a AMD Radeon Pro 5300 4 GB that came with it. Can you please advise?

@paranoiia8 2 года назад

Honestly you work on what you got, if you can afford to throw 100k for computer no one will stop you. If you have like 500 bucks you can also find computer for work... Is it gonna be good? Nope, but it will work. For many years I was working on laptop with slow Radeon GPU and bottom line Intel cpu unless I was working on scene with less than 3 million tris it was good for modeling. As for rendering? Not much unless you keep it over night. Most of modern hardware from middle price tag or even low end is really good for blender and comparing to more expensive stuff it will be really few sec faster so is it worth? Huge number of blender user, if not most, work with modeling objects and characters for other engines. They don't render scenes they don't do fluid simulations or super hi res sculpture so do they need best of the best hardware when even my current rig that is average as hell doesn't really use half of its power when I work... So why bother? And if someone render complex scenes and animations... Well even with quantum computer you will still be sitting in front of the desk sweating as hell after hitting "render" as blender sadly is still not very stable... In other hand I think that having slower pc thought me to optimize everything and this brought me lots of good point with clients and bunch of ideas. Now most of people that work on models do the same thing as game developers: they throw everything on scene and call it a day. It doesn't work for someone? Tell them to get better pc. And it would be cool if that throwing would bring some massive boost on quality but no. I still see people slapping 4k textures on background objects far from scene that you never see from close. Not using mip enabling real time shadows and reflections on every single object. Or Rendering in some insane settings without realizing that it will not improve quality... So yeah. Sometimes having tad slower pc teach you a lesson and some tricks that speed up work flow way better than few seconds faster rendering...

@UlfricStromcloak 2 года назад

Grant I think you forgot to mention something. if you are doing any kind of animation, even if it's some 15-30 second clips, It's better to keep the polygon count & other particle features as low as possible, and also render it on Eevee. Otherwise, it would take you an eternity to render them on Cycles. For a single frame illustration, or some other jobs like pre visualization or look dev (in which case you would need only one or two frames) even a weak PC is fine. It will take probably half an hour to render something on Cycles with 8K texture, 4096 samples at high resolution with intel denoiser for a weak PC. So that's doable. But don't ever think about creating animations with a weak PC. Even an Ocean simulation for 5 sec clips will take you 2-3 hours.

@grabbitt 2 года назад

I mentioned about keeping low poly at the start

@GundamGunpla Год назад

What do You think about: i5-13600KF, RTX 3070, 64 GB RAM? Will be it fine for Blender? Albo isn't it better RX 6800 XT 16 GB?

@ParkerThwips Год назад

Would this also apply to an Animator working in Maya looking for as close to real time viewport playback speeds as possible on dense/heavy scenes and rigs?

@grabbitt Год назад

I'm not as sure with maya, but it's likely to be similar

@ParkerThwips Год назад

@@grabbitt Cool. I figured the same. Thanks! Very helpful video.

@Trav2d3dArt 2 года назад

Maybe this will help someone too but I have a pc from 2018 that I upgraded over the years I will list the specs I7 8700k Intel processor Rtx 2080 graphics card 64 gb of ram M.2 ssd 1tb processor for storage And it still runs really well even on a 4 year old machine. It runs unreal engine 5, substance painter/designer as well

@23bobjr 2 года назад

Thats because your system is still considered high end.

@timedriverable 7 месяцев назад

PCSpecialist are in the United KIngdom and dont deliver to the U.S. Great presentation though. Also you might have touched on monitors as well regarding hz.

@----------------------------. Год назад

Great video and thank you for the knowledge. I currently have a 12600k and a 3060Ti and want to get into Blender and UE5. What monitor would you recomend for Blender? 1440p or 4k? Flat or curved? I have to ask many questions as I have to use a VA panel monitor, IPS and OLED gives me eye strain (this is common apparently). There isn't many VA flat panel 1440p and 4k monitors @ 144Hz as I game as well. Cheers.

@grabbitt Год назад

For me it was more about colour accuracy than flat or curved or even refresh rates

@----------------------------. Год назад

@@grabbitt thank you for replying, I notice you reply to almost all of your comments. I've subscribed. Before I do research on Google on a monitor with good colour accuracy, have you made any videos on recommended monitor for blender or UE5? Cheers

@grabbitt Год назад

@ISLE OF TECH no I've not got any videos that cover the subject

@siberiandante 2 года назад

Grant, what determines the max number of vertices Blender can handle before going laggy? Is it the VRAM GBs?

@grabbitt 2 года назад

It could either be the processor or the ram.

@nansifyanimations Год назад

In my classes for blender we use iMacs (I think- they’re Apple to say the least) there so I was planning on getting one too but I don’t know yet so- let’s see what you suggest in the video. I haven’t finished it yet so-

@Kullervo456 2 года назад

Hey Grant I have a Ryzen 5 2600 6 core 3.4 Mhz (boost `3.9Mhz) processor. Would upgrading to anything higher make much of a noticeable difference in your opinion or just a waste of funds?

@grabbitt 2 года назад

Check the blender benchmarks. But I imagine it may well make a difference to some aspects. It also depends on your ram as well

@Sinyao Год назад

Is it still alright to use a high end AMD GPU with the Cycle X partnership and Radeon Pro Render as someone getting started in Blender, or should I go with NVidia for now? I've been planning on going for a 7900xtx.

@grabbitt Год назад

Nvidia is the better option

@half-assedhealthylivingguide 10 месяцев назад

what about monitor? I have Intel i7-7490 3.60GHz , 24 gig RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti Direct3D DDI: 12. Looking at getting 32 inch monitor, jsut started Blender class on line Lynda, but no answers about system requirements.

@bumstudios8817 2 года назад

I think you can render farm on blender.. I’m just getting into this stuff my situation is a gifted refurbished laptop very thankful to have but graphics card is lacking so I’m already looking to the future for upgrades. But I also have a raspberry pi, and an old 2014 Mac mini.. I would love to use them to have more power but idk if I can or if it’s worth it. I currently am using unity and unreal 5 more than blender for rendering as real time is the way to go imho. Also with my research you can rent out computer power through virtual machines, from my research it could be expensive assuming you were using it 24-7 but you might only need it a few hours a month for render… in which case 10-20$ a month for as needed computing power is very reasonable!

@grabbitt 2 года назад

Yes check my video on vagon. I talk through this exact scenario

@stefanospitsillos5862 Год назад

Do these principles apply to Daz3d too? I've just started 3d modeling and I'm on a very tight budget as a beginner(around 500-600$) any pc built specs recommendations?

@grabbitt Год назад

Generally yes the same applies

@batmanonholiday4477 Год назад

hi thanks for this video, question: would you rather have a newer more powerful cpu with less vram than more vram gpu with less powerful cpu? For instance ryzen 7 5900h with 3080 16gb vram VS intel i7 12900hx and 3070ti 8GB?

@grabbitt Год назад

It actually depends on what you are doing. If you want to do lots of sculpting. A better cpu might be the way to go. If you want to render lots of animation then gpu

@batmanonholiday4477 Год назад

@@grabbitt i see..

@MusicalGeniusBar 2 года назад

The 4000 series are coming out in June, wait a month and get the 4060.

@BMH1965 Год назад

What M/B is on Grant's machine, I suspect not a B550 board...

@whatyouneedtoknow6656 Год назад

Thank you for the video. For VFX editing and 3D modeling, animation should I go for the 14 inch MacBook Pro or the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro (RTX 3070) please?

@grabbitt Год назад

The lenovo

@whatyouneedtoknow6656 Год назад

@@grabbitt Thank you for your advice

@agungwidi799 2 года назад

My laptop, intel core i3, 4gb ram, 500gb harddrive, nvidia GeForce ... Great to play Solitaire and ms office

@anzdes219 Год назад

CPU potentiates the gpu, so you better have a good cpu first, secondly u can denoise using nvidia gpu with optix or cpu if it's intel with open image

@Ziqver Год назад

I switched from an expensive iMac to a laptop PC for half the price and I couldn’t be happier. M1 chips can’t even be compared with navida. Even if the hardcore M1 chip people would like it to be. I wrote PC specialist and said, hey I am going to use this and that. Same day, they replied “ Here you go! “ While Apple will sell you anything and say that it will work. But it doesn’t, not if you want to make a complex scene.

@All-FatherEdits Год назад

What would you recommend if i wanted to get two twin M.2 SSD drives? Is that possible in this casing?

@grabbitt Год назад

I don't remember. But it's likely

@D2Kprime 2 года назад

I'm still trying to get my feet wet with Blender. There is a lot I still don't understand about the sculpting process which is really what I want to do. I built a machine 2 years ago that at the time was a monster. Ryzen 9 3900x 12-core 24-thread CPU 3.7 GHz per-core nVidia RTX 2070 GPU 8GB of RAM Corsair Vengeance 64 GB of DD4 RAM 1 TB NVMe Samsung EVO 970 Plus SSD 1 TB M.2 Samsung SSD Noctua NH-D15 CPU fan Tuf Gaming X570-Plus (Wi-Fi) Motherboard I regularly run software like 3DS Max, Photoshop, After Effects, Clip Studio Paint EX, and everything run pretty smooth for the most part. One good thing about having a monster-rig is that it's easy to tell where the issue is that you are taxing the PC too hard vs that particular software (or game) has not been well optimized. Altogether I spent about $1500 US dollars on the machine so that's not too bad. It still punches way outside of it's weight-class. At some point I will have to upgrade the GPU when I get the money. It's a shame that when I had the money there was a such a huge shortage of GPUs out there. Now that they are in stock in most places, I'm broke!!! 🤣

@D2Kprime 2 года назад

@@thecreator359 Thanks

@keithkool 2 года назад

That 3900x is a beast. I need to change my air cooler as it is not sufficient for cooling. Ordered a Noctua too. Hopefully that will keep the demon under control.

@usmankakka 2 года назад

What a timing.... Thanks for not posting this earlier

@vishalsahu3579 Год назад

Now, that's how analysis should be done.

@Greygasm Год назад

Hi! I'm actually new to blender. Wanted to know if RX 6800 is okay for blender or should I buy RTX 3070 instead? Thanks

@grabbitt Год назад

Check the benchmarks link in description

@LucasSantos-yt4fg 9 месяцев назад

Im not sure if im going to get an answer but yeah. Dear Grant Abbit can i ask you about the new Apple M2 Max? Does ir perform well ?

@grabbitt 9 месяцев назад

Its OK but currently not as good as a PC of the same value with an nvidia card

@estebanprieto6574 9 месяцев назад

Hey grant how are you I'm just wondering if I have a MacBook pro late 2011 improved with SSD and more ram and I add a graphic card it should run for the begging ?

@grabbitt 9 месяцев назад

Tricky to say

@clausbohm9807 Год назад

Great video but to make it simple, get the fastest 8 core cpu, but more important: run the most cuda core graphics card at the latest generation that your budget allows. Now for some points and advice: Each nvidia generation is about 20% faster cuda core for cuda core. All rendering (Viewport and Final) are done with graphics cores so forget the cpu cores for that task. Simulation/dynamics work in Blender doesn't use much above 8 cpu cores ... yet! Maybe 10 - 12 cores to future proof it. Note: I wouldn't wait for 4000 series Nvidia due to the unknowns, go with one in the 3000 series that fits your budget (at $/performance I would go with at least a 3060 Ti or if your budget can handle it a 3080 12Gb) and spend some money on good fans or maybe water cooling (Hybrid cards) since the 3000 series are notoriously hot at load. Everything else is secondary or supports the above. Lastly if you can, get a fast boot drive (stay away from mech hard drives) and use a water cooling kit for your cpu so that heat is no longer in the case competing with the heat from that powerful graphics card you just bought ... !

@pieralessi7426 Год назад

You have to take into account that you can't combine any GPU with any CPU in any motherboard, talking about PC according to budget doesn't solve anything, it's obvious that if this is cheap I'll get something low end but nobody explains what possibilities you'll have when working, if the PC is enough or minimum that in a year you can already be sorry, it is understood that blender accepts low end equipment but nobody says that maybe you only do simple renders, just lines or simple polygons, it's like telling a F1 racer that if he buys a Corsa he can still race, it's not true but tell him that you can race and then you put a nitro in the engine but they won't tell you if you can really go over 200 k/h for more than 10 seconds without the engine exploding.

@clausbohm9807 Год назад

@@pieralessi7426 I am giving actual facts so instead of appreciating the data I shared. you give opinions and statement beyond the scope of my post. Sounds like the politics we are witnessing today. OK you may be smart but we don't know because you are not contributing anything useful as I have clearly detailed through years of experience and building systems. Did you want my post to go longer to talk about PCI & chipset lanes or socket types or about how to size power supplies. Issues with company brands or how Blender can be used, etc...? I would have to start writing a book, I was trying to keep it simple.

@pieralessi7426 Год назад

@@clausbohm9807 I have only noted that it is talking about an element and I am contributing that a GPU does not eat alone, seeing that it is not mentioned, I just put it, if that offended you, sorry, I see that in many videos it is a single element and not the whole PC, let alone those who only talk about games.

@stuartfury3390 Год назад

@@clausbohm9807 Unless you're in rendered view, which most of the time you're not, viewport performance is mostly on the CPU. Core clock speed is the most important factor here for good viewport performance, especially if you're animating. Not sure what you mean by "competing with the heat" from the GPU. As long as your case fans are decent, a good air cooler will move the heat out just as well as an AIO. Lastly, the 12gb on the 3060 non Ti would most likely be far more valuable to a blender user than the slightly faster render time of the Ti and its measly 8gb.

@__lalisa 10 месяцев назад

To anyone reading this comment - can you please recommend a laptop for someone that wants to explore all parts of development? I'm already working on web dev but I want to explore everything like Android dev, game dev, ai ml, ds, cybersecurity. I also want to explore digital art 3d modelling rendering software like blender. Are there any laptops under INR 70k? Also is it better to buy online or offline? I'm extremely confused with so many laptops options, can you recommend what laptop model would be great?

@neilcollins7371 2 года назад

Thanks so much for this, really useful. I'm about to gain some extra space so want to upgrade from my laptop to a desktop PC. I don't render at all (I only sculpt for 3D printing) which complicates the CPU and GPU search as I don't know what to prioritise, but when I have a really big scene (which for 3D printing is going to be very high poly) it seems to use the graphics card a lot when navigating around, which I dodnt realise would need to play such a big part in my decisions. Do you know if PC Specialist offer much of a service to help you design your PC? I've got a budget of around £2-3k. Thanks again, as always your videos are awesome.

@sarahashemi6521 Год назад

Great video. I like your videos. Thank you very much 💖💖💖. Is it possible to introduce some other laptop brands? I want to make 3D animation using blender. I know that for long rendering the desktop computer is the best and it doesn't heat up. But I want to buy a laptop that I can move. Animation rendering can take several hours. What brand of laptop should I buy? I've read a lot of negative reviews about gaming laptops overheating and it worries me. Thank you very much 💖💖💖

@grabbitt Год назад

It's tricky to say there are lots of good brand out there. Just read several reviews but keep in mind the fundamentals from this video