What spec of PC is needed for 3d rendering and Editing

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All it is my nephew left Uni and got a job now but whats to have a good spec PC for editing and rendering material and using software like Adobe photoshop....Blender...Unreal engine.... cinema 4d and Indesign he has around £3500 and wants it to last a few years or so.

I am used to gaming PC so unsure what to recommend for this and advice would be great like AMD or Intel ....how much memory.....what sort of drives and GPU whether a AIO is good and so on...thanks.
 
You’d have to give more details. What size files will they be working with? Will they need a 100 RGB accurate monitor. Any compiling requirements.
 
jigger said:
You’d have to give more details. What size files will they be working with? Will they need a 100 RGB accurate monitor. Any compiling requirements.
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Ok yes 100 rgb accurate would be needed file size he will be working with raw files and large videos.
 
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core CPU
Zalman CNPS20X CPU Cooler
Gigabyte X570S AERO G ATX Motherboard
2x G.Skill Ripjaws V 2x16GB DDR4-3600 cl16
2x Crucial P5 2 TB M.2 NVME Solid State Drive
2x HDD bulk storage
Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 XT 16GB
SeaSonic 750-850watt gold PSU
Silverstone PM02-G ATX Case
HUAWEI MateView 4K Monitor

It’s boarder line mid level Threadripper territory.
 
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jigger said:
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core CPU
Zalman CNPS20X CPU Cooler
Gigabyte X570S AERO G ATX Motherboard
2x G.Skill Ripjaws V 2x16GB DDR4-3600 cl16
2x Crucial P5 2 TB M.2 NVME Solid State Drive
2x HDD bulk storage
Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 XT 16GB
SeaSonic 750-850watt gold PSU
Silverstone PM02-G ATX Case
HUAWEI MateView 4K Monitor

It’s boarder line mid level Threadripper territory.
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Brilliant thanks for the recommendation.....quick question are the AMD cards better than the Nvidia for what he needs?
 
roachyuk said:
Brilliant thanks for the recommendation.....quick question are the AMD cards better than the Nvidia for what he needs?
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It’s not that important, depends to some extent what he would be use to working with. The big issue at the moment is that Nvidia cards carry long lead times.
 
Bearing in mind I'm not a developer, just been looking at threads/youtube/webpages etc so take what I put with grain of salt.

With a bigger budget in mind...

Intel 12700 reviews below...they both contain the 12900 in there as well... so 12900 top, but cost escalates as well as the power consumption, 12700 k competes with AMD 5900X and 5950X is instances, though for some blender amd outperforms intel, but still would go Intel at mo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlngwUuDYoc&t=136s&ab_channel=HardwareUnboxed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B14h25fKMpY&t=605s&ab_channel=GamersNexus

https://www.gameplaydeveloper.com/unreal-engine-5-system-requirements/ basically to work on UE5 then you want 64gb ram or more depending what you do, so 2 x 32gb, gives you space to expand then saw below youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prAsOtJ3HgU&ab_channel=TechNotice testing DDR5 v DDR4 for creative developers..all system test were 64gb ram..conclusion best bang for buck was 2 x 32gb 3600C18...2 x 32gb 3600c16 was expensive so went with 4 x 16gb 3600c16 which ended up slower than the 2 sticks of 32gb 3600C18...as you can see the 3600c16 much more expensive than the 3600C18...the 64Gb Kingston Fury rgb sticks they used in the vid I've seen for £270 away.....not seen any 3600C16 cheaper in 2 x 32gb than below...for blender he said more ram the better

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £637.68 (includes shipping: £8.70)


Mobo go with a Z690 ddr4 board as z690 supports more nvme storage...was looking at the pro art boards but expensive...they have 2 thunderbolt 4. Ifvu not needed prob look at something like the tomahawk at £259 as run relatively cool with 12900k

Graphics card still looking at..ideally 3090 for the 24gb vram, (so looking at the fe card at 1399 but hard to snag one so alternative......seen a MSI 3080 gaming z trio with MSI spatium 1tb gen 4 nvme for £1053, which for a non fe card, seems a reasonable price in this inflated world
https://www.pluralsight.com/blog/film-games/top-five-gpus-to-power-your-3d-vfx-or-game-dev-system
You could use the 1tb nvme as OS boot drive and if doing serious GB file loads etc would suggest the firecuda 530 2tb for £310, which has a monster indurance or 2550tbw

Psu 850w such as rm850x £129 for 2021 version, but seen rm1000x for £130 so that prob better value, or could just go rm850 for £100 odd and save a bit0)

easy to build in case...and can fit a 360mm aio for the CPU as well as some hhd maybe for long term storage added 011d dvo as spacious inside and should offer everything needed..quite expensive so could find cheaper case so price then drops

Aio 360mm such as arctic freezer 2...£109

Need to start adding up

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My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,734.59 (includes shipping: £14.70)

Build above, then add 3080 and other 1tb gen4 nvme....comes to 2787, leaving 700 odd for monitor..can save £150 odd dropping 12900k to 12700k and save more getting cheaper case etc​
 
Craig_d1 said:
Bearing in mind I'm not a developer, just been looking at threads/youtube/webpages etc so take what I put with grain of salt.

With a bigger budget in mind...

Intel 12700 reviews below...they both contain the 12900 in there as well... so 12900 top, but cost escalates as well as the power consumption, 12700 k competes with AMD 5900X and 5950X is instances, though for some blender amd outperforms intel, but still would go Intel at mo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlngwUuDYoc&t=136s&ab_channel=HardwareUnboxed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B14h25fKMpY&t=605s&ab_channel=GamersNexus

https://www.gameplaydeveloper.com/unreal-engine-5-system-requirements/ basically to work on UE5 then you want 64gb ram or more depending what you do, so 2 x 32gb, gives you space to expand then saw below youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prAsOtJ3HgU&ab_channel=TechNotice testing DDR5 v DDR4 for creative developers..all system test were 64gb ram..conclusion best bang for buck was 2 x 32gb 3600C18...2 x 32gb 3600c16 was expensive so went with 4 x 16gb 3600c16 which ended up slower than the 2 sticks of 32gb 3600C18...as you can see the 3600c16 much more expensive than the 3600C18...the 64Gb Kingston Fury rgb sticks they used in the vid I've seen for £270 away.....not seen any 3600C16 cheaper in 2 x 32gb than below...for blender he said more ram the better

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £637.68 (includes shipping: £8.70)


Mobo go with a Z690 ddr4 board as z690 supports more nvme storage...was looking at the pro art boards but expensive...they have 2 thunderbolt 4. Ifvu not needed prob look at something like the tomahawk at £259 as run relatively cool with 12900k

Graphics card still looking at..ideally 3090 for the 24gb vram, (so looking at the fe card at 1399 but hard to snag one so alternative......seen a MSI 3080 gaming z trio with MSI spatium 1tb gen 4 nvme for £1053, which for a non fe card, seems a reasonable price in this inflated world
https://www.pluralsight.com/blog/film-games/top-five-gpus-to-power-your-3d-vfx-or-game-dev-system
You could use the 1tb nvme as OS boot drive and if doing serious GB file loads etc would suggest the firecuda 530 2tb for £310, which has a monster indurance or 2550tbw

Psu 850w such as rm850x £129 for 2021 version, but seen rm1000x for £130 so that prob better value, or could just go rm850 for £100 odd and save a bit0)

easy to build in case...and can fit a 360mm aio for the CPU as well as some hhd maybe for long term storage added 011d dvo as spacious inside and should offer everything needed..quite expensive so could find cheaper case so price then drops

Aio 360mm such as arctic freezer 2...£109

Need to start adding up

BB CODE
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,734.59 (includes shipping: £14.70)

Build above, then add 3080 and other 1tb gen4 nvme....comes to 2787, leaving 700 odd for monitor..can save £150 odd dropping 12900k to 12700k and save more getting cheaper case etc​
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WOW this is more than enough i appreciate the time this has taken you and will watch and read up on the information you have provided thanks again for your time spent on this :)
 
roachyuk said:
So should he go Intel or Amd?
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Hope this helps ... an architect mate of mine did tons of research recently, he uses the software you mentioned and Lumion. So he ended up spending around £3.5k as well, big chunk went on monitor which was important in his opinion:
AMD 6800XT
AMD 5800X
32GB RAM
DELL Professional 4K premiercolor monitor
 
Yes, have worked for about 15 years in graphics design (3d, software, indesign, photoshop etc).

For performance put your money on RAM, CPU and HDD mainly - not saying GFX does nothing, but the other three will be whether you're up until midnight or finish at 5pm.... :D

Definitely push the RAM up - ideally get 2 x 32gb sticks if you can, so it could be upgraded to 128GB eventually (if doing more on unreal/Cinema as the latter especially will eat it up anything you give it and demand more...!)
 
katie279 said:
Yes, have worked for about 15 years in graphics design (3d, software, indesign, photoshop etc).

For performance put your money on RAM, CPU and HDD mainly - not saying GFX does nothing, but the other three will be whether you're up until midnight or finish at 5pm.... :D

Definitely push the RAM up - ideally get 2 x 32gb sticks if you can, so it could be upgraded to 128GB eventually (if doing more on unreal/Cinema as the latter especially will eat it up anything you give it and demand more...!)
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This looks good value for 64GB
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/patr...dual-channel-kit-pvs464g360c8k-my-109-pa.html
 
roachyuk said:
All it is my nephew left Uni and got a job now but whats to have a good spec PC for editing and rendering material and using software like Adobe photoshop....Blender...Unreal engine.... cinema 4d and Indesign he has around £3500 and wants it to last a few years or so.

I am used to gaming PC so unsure what to recommend for this and advice would be great like AMD or Intel ....how much memory.....what sort of drives and GPU whether a AIO is good and so on...thanks.
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Ig going top of line the 3090Fe just dropped from nvidea and available still for £1399....
 
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