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Yes it was very helpful, now I have a Ryzen 5 3600 64 GB ddr4 and a GTX 1660 6gb but I feel that Blender does not work for me so, it would be fine if I migrate to a new PC with this, i9 12900KF, 64GB ram ddr5 and an RTX 4070 ventus 3X 12GB for Blender? although with your video the answer would be yes!
I learned you are way to long winded. You wasted the first 3 minutes on useless gestures and doodoo! Not to mention the other 4.28 wasted ramblings. All you need to do was a list 1 minute tops. No one gives a crap about single thread or minimum, looking for recommended best CPU, BEST GRAPHICS card. People looking for advice on Blended already know what it is and does.
i did a project where a single rendered frame took about 30 minutes on an m1 pro mac book pro, and less than 45 seconds on my i7 12700k with 64gb ram and a nvidia 4070 master.. the working experience on booth systems is almost the same, but the render speed differences are enormous.
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I’ve been doing shit on a Mac for the longest time I don’t give a rip they can take my money. I could’ve done 15 commissions in the time just trying to get it to work
So true. Any computer is a major investment for me. I use blender for 3d design mostly. I have no photorealistic or animation projects in the works. After studying the situation, I'm going with a mini that outperforms the old stuff I've been using. Hardware acceleration can wait til I actually need it.
I'm currently in the market for a used laptop and this video helped me make an informed decision that doesn't break the bank and will also be okay for Blender: A ThinkPad P53 Workstation laptop with an Intel i7 9th-gen Hexa-Core @ 2.6GHz, 32 GB of RAM and an Nvidia Quadro T2000 with 4GB of GDDR5 VRAM
Nice video but the point about Macs not benefitting from GPU is not correct. Blender now has Metal API support so the GPUs in the M1 and M2 chips does make a huge improvement as opposed to rendering on the CPU alone. Ofcourse this is still nowhere near as fast as what the latest NVIDIA GPUs can do. Also, the high end M series chips can have up to 128gb of RAM shared between the CPU and GPU, so unlike a High end NVIDIA GPU that has typically has a maximum of 24GB VRAM, High-end macs can theoretically handle much larger files without hitting the memory bottleneck.
Thanks for sharing! Helpful stuff. I can see where we could have improved our word choice on this topic - we didn't mean to mislead anyone. The main point is that for those who are looking for speed, you still need to go with a PC with NVIDIA GPU even with all the Mac improvements.
Hard to pick a clear #1, but two options that are definitely on the higher end of specs would be: www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQNVT4S5?th=1 OR www.dell.com/en-us/shop/laptops/intel/spd/alienware-m18-r1-laptop/wnm18r1cto20
I have a Mac book air from 2013 lol I can use an earlier version and blender works decent after a few fixes but it crashes and the animations are very slow. It’s good for know as I’m just learning the basics but I plan on upgrading. Thanks for sharing this 💯
I am going for a 4070 super 12gb vram and 32 gb ddr5 RAM, I am confused between AMD Ryzen 7 7700x or Intel i7 12700k...Should I consider intel for productivity or amd for performance & futureproof for Blender?
Interesting topic. Thanks for the tutorial and going into important details. But the infinite number of this movement noise quickly became too much. Every text and every appearance of something new over and over again with the same unnecessary sounds, which are also very loud, distracts too much from the content. At least there is no background music that is the same volume as the spoken word, what many tutorials have. But unfortunately the noise makes up for it. I think less would be more.
You do not “need” an Nvidia Graphics Card to use Blender nor do you even need a dedicated graphics card at all. However there are benefits to using Blender on a system with a dedicated graphics card from Nvidia, AMD, or Intel.
I think Nvidia graphics cards will give you the greatest bang for buck. Taking the blender performance benchmarks given from the blender website into consideration.
So it sounds like aim for a Ryzen 7 7700 (since it is 8 core, 64bit), 32Gb RAM and then max out the GPU (e.g. RTX4080S)? Or better to get 2x RTX4060Ti 16Gb cards?
You'll probably be best off just going with the one better performing single GPU. Two GPUs could theoretically run faster, but your CPU could become the bottleneck if it's not fast enough to handle them both.
@@BlenderAcademyTutorialsappreciate the video. But if it's great for blender, please tell me why Blender crashes when I go to render. I have AMD Ryzen 7
Great video! I have a question about prioritizing specs when it comes to Blender and similar programs. Due to my budget I have to make sacrifices with either the CPU, GPU or RAM. Could you help me decide which specs are better to sacrifice when it comes to a smooth workflow? These are the options: i7-12700H > i5 -13500HX NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 > NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 36RAM > 16RAM I know you recommend 32RAM, but it really ramps up the price so I guess I'd have to sacrifice both CPU and GPU for that. BTW, I am getting a Lenovo Legion 5i Pro. Thank you for your help, guys!
All I know is I bought a friend's Windows 10 machine awhile back because it was better for streaming OBS than either of my laptops. But now that I'm back into Blender, trying to figure out peripherals that work, following tutorials, it's just one disaster after another. Non-Miracast support, no multiple HDMI outs, and I got all excited about doing pwnisher's CG challenge...opened up my first free particle effect (a big dust cloud) and the first time I stuck it in a .blend file, my PC froze for like ten hours. I need to upgrade.
im a blender beginner.. i only have a i7 8700k with 32gb ram... no gpu... i can do alot with it but some stuff, like rendering just take for ever... i got me a 4060 and its alot better now lol
Okay so the computers I'm looking at are either a intel core i7 13700KF with a 4060 TI $ or a AMD i5 5600X with a 4070 $$ and finally a intel core i7 13700KF with a 4070 TI $$$ which of these is the best for the price level
When it comes to rendering still images in Blender, the three price points will correlate to the time it takes to render your scenes with the 4060 TI being a little slower than the AMD/4070 which will be a little slower than the 4070 TI. So you'll have to be the judge of how important that time-to-render tradeoff is vs. your budget. Each file or scene will differ in the percentage increase in time that one setup will take vs. another, but they will generally perform in the order of price. If you are producing animations, then the slower speeds compound since you're rendering hundreds or thousands of frames per animation - in that case you likely want to go for the maximum you can afford.
I asked this question to Chat gpt for selecting best pc for my perticular budget ( although price got high from my budget) his reply was :- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X** - Upgrading to the Ryzen 7 5800X gives you more cores and threads, providing better performance for rendering and multitasking in Blender. **GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060** - The RTX 3060 offers improved rendering performance and better support for GPU-accelerated tasks in Blender compared to the GTX 1660 Super. **RAM: 32GB DDR4** - Increasing your RAM to 32GB will provide more headroom for larger Blender projects and improve overall system performance. **Storage: 1TB NVMe SSD** - A larger NVMe SSD will give you more storage space for projects and faster data access times. **Motherboard: B550 or X570** - Stick with a B550 or upgrade to an X570 motherboard for better features and future compatibility. **Power Supply: 600W** - Increase the power supply wattage to accommodate the higher-end components. **Case: Mid-Tower Case** - Continue with a mid-tower case with good airflow and room for future upgrades. This upgraded configuration should provide a significant boost in performance for Blender tasks, especially with the improved CPU and GPU. Again, prices may vary, so check for the latest deals and consider future upgradability when making your purchase.
can you help me figure it out? i have a rtx 4070, it has 12gb vram of course. i am working on a big project on blender and the problem right now is that i am really low on vram, with my current budget i am looking to buy a rx 7900xtx with 24gb. i dont know if that is a good choice or not because i am worried that the 7900xtx is not worth the upgrade or will have many problems with 3d like some information i have found Many thanks ❤
In theory, the 7900 isn't tuned to perform nearly as fast as an NVIDIA GPU, so I'm afraid that even with more VRAM, it may not give you the boost you are hoping for. That being said, contact us at team@blenderacademy.com and an instructor will be happy to help you try to figure out an option that will work within your budget.
I have m1 max with 64gbram . But it seems still slow working for some project for me. I have budget to build pc with amd 7800x3d, rtx 4070ti, 32ram. Does this will makes change to work/render better or will it be the same with my previous m1max? Thanks
It can certainly run Blender, but if you want certain tasks to run faster - especially rendering out still images or animations - then you'll be best off with a PC that has an NVIDIA GPU.
Hi I'm currently considering learning Blender to change a job within the company I'm currently working with but I'm using a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) with following specs ; Processor ; 2,5 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 Memory ; 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Graphics ; Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB Works that I'll be doing requires NO animations, but rather heavily-detailed luxury product 3D modelling. What should I do? (PS this model is one of the last MacBook that some parts are still upgradeable) Greatly appreciated for any advices.
Ideally you would upgrade your computer, either to a PC with an NVIDA GPU or to one of the new Macs with the M3 chip. These will help you model in Blender and also create realistic images of your product designs. If you need more specific guidance or have follow-along questions, be sure to send them to team@blenderacademy.com and an instructor will try to help.
I've been a Mac user all my life and have never purchased or custom built any kind of PC in the past. Is there an 'off the shelf' pc that would be a good mid to low range computer for running blender. I'm imagining doing mostly low poly work. Thanks in advance.
I have a pc from 2016 with core i5 6600k... 16 gb ram.. GTX970... However nowadays i am using blender as a hobby... And i feel rendering in cycles is pain in the ass with my computer 😢.. So planning to upgrade GPU to RTX 4070... I heared that it won't bottleneck with the CPU for Blender rendering.... Is this true? The bottle neck problem is only for gaming in PC? If so i can just upgrade the GPU, since changeing the whole pc will cost me more...😢 Can you advise me on this ?!
You're right that there's a bottleneck with that combo for gaming. With Blender, we have read that people are able to make the two work together successfully, but don't have firsthand experience. Here's a relevant discussion that might help: blenderartists.org/t/6700k-with-4070/1471816/14
If you have to choose between a faster CPU and more RAM, we would recommend you prioritize the CPU. So an i9 with 16GB of RAM would be a better choice over i7 with 32GB of RAM.
hello sir, im planning to upgrade my pc in the future. ill also be using blender for my works, does rendering with both cpu and gpu really is faster than using the gpu alone?
GPU alone is the fastest rendering option. When we talk about the CPU and GPU together, we are talking about how you are going to have tasks in Blender that reply on a strong CPU working in tandem with a strong GPU.
but if theres a time that when you are rendering and the errors comes out saying "system has not enough vram" then using both cpu and gpu has the same speed of rendering duration but cpu brings out help from the rams to use the ram capacities? is that the other way to work if ur scene is too heavy?
I'm about to build a pc but i don't know which processor is better. Right now I have settled on ntel core i7-14700f processor tray and amd ryzen 9 5900x, can anyone help?
hey, i'm wondering what CPU is the best for me to use since i use blender a lot. (i have a 9th GEN intel core i5 9400F 2.90ghz) I just bought a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8gb and i realized that i need a better memory card and CPU. im planning to get a 32gb (or if i can afford it) a 64gb card. i also use blender for simulations, commissions and a ton of modelling so i do ALOT in blender. What cpu do you recommend? and what works with my PC (acer nitro N50-600) (hope u answer)
Is CPU: Ryzen 5 7600X and GPU: 4060 TI 16GB a nice combo for a starter on blender? I want to build a pc that could handle Blender and explore into 3D world a bit! I will appreciate if someone answers!
I'm working on a YT video about Airplanes, and the file is getting bigger and bigger with thousands of lights and more polygons than I can spell My system has i5 8400, 16 GB RAM 12 GB 4070ti The animations are rendering superfast, but the frame loading time is more than the rendering time, 20 sec of loading time and 6-8 sec of rendering and de-noising time. Please help me, I don't know what is the main culprit, the large file?, low RAM? or my CPU?
I have a Mac with 8 cpu cores and an 8 gb ram and let me tell you something. Rendering is horrific. I tried rendering the 7 s donut tutorial animation. My laptop managed to do 12 frames in 14 hours :(
AMD released a driver for blender that makes it fast. But it would take a power user to figure out how to install :) so Nvidia if plugins and installs are not your thing :)
While you technically might be able to run Blender, it will likely run quite slowly. You can take a closer look at the recommended requirements here: www.blender.org/download/requirements/
this guys information is helpful, but do not go out and break the bank, you can always run a much older version of blender that is less system resourceful, you can always do your base modelling with a version of blender, and do the rest on a aws(cloud computer). aldepeping what your project is but the basic system requirements will be enough and especially if you use a much older version.
Hello. In this case is that mean that I can use a laptop with i9--13905H NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 (8GB GDDR6)GDDR6 / 32 GB memory / Nominal frequency 4.1 GHz and memory Frequency 6400 MHz for making drawing in AutoCad for interior design and after that basic modeling of the design in 3ds Max and for the rendering to use like you say aws(cloud computer) or is better to get a PC (workstation) for that although I will need to be mobile.
Amazing video, really helpful. could you please suggest a laptop or a best mobile workstation for Blender and Aftereffects in the price range of ($1500-$2000).? thank you , sorry the link you have added is not working that's why.
Hello. Great video. Can someone tell me is this a good for AutoCAD and 3dsMax : Lenovo Yoga Pro 9 / Intel Core i9 (13th Gen) 13905H / 14-core 24 MB cache, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 / Intel Iris Xe Graphics 8 GB GDDR6 SDRAM, 64 GB - I will use it for creating interior designing projects.
I'm choosing rtx 4070 32 gb ram ddr4 Amd ryzen 7 5800x 1tb ssd Kingston gen 4 Case nzxt h5 flow Cooler Nzxt T120 RGB 120mm CPU Air Cooler (White) Power supply Asus ROG Thor 850P 850 Watt 80 Plus Platinum SMPS Mother board msi msi b550 tomahawk Is it good or not I want to build this pc in July and I'm saving money for that so if any advice you have on this pc pls give me
i have i7 12th generation processor, with 16gb ram and gigabyte motherboard. should i go with rtx 3060 for 3d modelling and animation in maya and blender?
In theory, the 7900 isn't tuned to perform nearly as fast as an NVIDIA GPU. That being said, contact us at team@blenderacademy.com and an instructor will be happy to help you try to figure out a better option that will work within your budget.
Whatd u say about this build for blender? CPU Ryzen 9 5900X 12Cores 3.7GHz ASUS ROG STRIX B550-A GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 12GB I know the CPU is a lot better than the GPU but with my Budget (1500€) a Ryzen 9 is almost the same as the 7 and that way I can upgrade my GPU later on (cause the 40 series is way too expensive rn) Im struggling a little with the fans tbh. Rn I have 6 fans and a single fan for the CPU since it comes without one. Would 3 instead of 6 still be enough..? Feedback? :]
A decent GPU is far better at rendering than a CPU but if rendering with CPU blender can use all your RAM for graphics but with GPU rendering you can only use the RAM on your GPU card for the graphics. Try both see which is fastest.
@humansrants1694 yeah I've been rendering with GPU so far ngl. Do you think the 3060 would still be good? Or what would you recommend? Cause the 4070 f.e. costs double the amount idk if I can do that. And the Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 9 only have like a 70€ difference which is worth it to me
Great vid very informative. I have a laptop with i712700H . 16 GB system RAM and Rtx3050 with 4 gb VRAM. Will it run properly on blender cycles? I mainly do architectural renderings. (Only medium projects) Thanks
It will be able to create renderings using the Cycles rendering engine. If you were looking to upgrade, it could definitely be faster, but that is ultimately a matter of budget.
Looks like you didn’t pay attention to the video. Multiply cpu speed with core count. I also gonna either one of them. R7 got 2 more cores but it costs 60$ more. I am gonna look for benchmarks online and see if 60$ are worth the extra scores.
For Blender My set up will be Ryzen 9 5950x 16cores 128gb DDR4 3600 RAM RTX 4090 24GB VRAM I'm not going to Crossfire 2 4090's lol I'm gonna have to go with what I got.
Nvidia are certainly considered the "safe bet", but the generally lower price of AMD cards make them an appealing option. I'm running Blender 3.6 on Linux with an AMD 5700xt and GPU renders are very fast. However, you do have to do your research to make sure you have the correct driver versions or whether AMD has added support for your card. AMD seems to intentionally make it as difficult as possible to get your AMD card working for production workstations. They are missing a big opportunity here sell a ton more GPUs.
After quite a bit of research, I ended up making my list with a Ryzen 5 5600X, RTX 3060, 32GB DDR4 (3600MHz) and two M2 ssds. If by the time I buy my new PC (later this year, November or December) the prices have dropped then I might go, depending on the said prices, with a RTX 4070.
It's not the best option for rendering - if you would like to discuss more options with one of our instructors, send a message to team@blenderacademy.com
Ddr4 24Gb ram 12400 i5 Intel Intel Arc A750 Literally equalls rtx3060 Guess I can able to make at least a City render with these shits... I'll hand on the whole world in future 💀
The Intel Arc isn't comparable to an NVIDIA GPU when it comes to the speed that the latter will offer you. If you need more help choosing hardware, please send this message to team@blenderacademy.com and an instructor will be happy to try to help
I run HP z8xx type servers which uses dual E5-269x CPU, 64gb RAM, with 1 RTX3090 (24Gb VRAM) so far, but will be bumped to 4. I noticed that when preparing a frame for GPU rendering, my CPU only uses 1 core ("charge" open movie, 1.4GB). i tried the same with other demo files from the belnder website. Is this normal practise? I was expecting multithreading for frame preparation to speed up the process. Thanks
The CPU processes all the necessary data first and sends it to VRAM where the GPU can then be used to work on the rendering. Presuming that your GPU is working at 100% capacity, the CPU will only send data as needed so that it's not trying to push anything to the GPU when it's already at full working capacity. That would mean only a single CPU core is needed, as prepping multiple frames at once wouldn't speed things up since you can't feed those frames into the rendering pipeline any faster than the GPU can handle them.
While we certainly cover things you should know for Cycles, the principles still apply to EEVEE. You can get away with lesser hardware with EEVEE, but the same principles apply.
You probably should have mentioned the diminishing returns of multiple gpus, and that mixing gpus makes it slower more often than not. You are far better off with a single very fast gpu with lots cores and memory, than two lesser ones that would cost the same. Personally I only recommend the RTX 4070ti and up for Blender gpu rendering. It isn't a power hog, has 12 gig of memory, and does renders very fast.
diminishing returns of multi GPU setups is usually because the processor bottlenecks or the PCIe lanes do. Standard consumer grade CPU's usually max out at 16-28 PCIE lanes, and a high end GPU Requires 8 or 16 to run at full speed. In order to run multi GPU setups properly, you need server or HEDT grade processors, such as threadripper, epyc or Xeon CPU's. Plus you do absolutely have to match GPU's, and realistically its something that's only done with absolute top end cards to begin with, IE multiple RTX 4090's because there simply isn't a more powerful GPU available. Otherwise yes with a standard CPU and motherboard, it is better to use a single more powerful GPU than two weaker ones, especially since mutli GPu setups cannot share VRAM. Thus multi GPU setups is largely limited to professional grade animations a high resolutions.
A very well done video! Your explanations are very clear and engaging. Helped me decide the right CPU for my next PC. Thanks a lot! Just a quick thing that I would like to add. Some GPUs are very heavily optimised towards blender in comparison to other GPUs, so if you do more gaming than blender, it might be worth checking other benchmarks too. The other thing is, Nvidia 40 series isn't very worth it imho, since they tend to prioritise slightly higher performance with less vram... So also with investigating. I'll give an example for both. For me, the RX 6700 XT, Arc 770, RTX 4060 and RTX 3060 are about the same price, but I'll probably end up buying the 3060 because it has more vram than the 4060, and it's optimised much better for blender in comparison to the Intel and AMD cards... Hope that helps
@@viipeditz Hi Well, that really depends on where u live (because of prices), and what do you prioritise in a pc... If you mainly want a good pc for big heavy scenes, you might want to get more RAM and VRAM and cut wherever you can, but if you only want fast render times with smaller scenes, or if you do more gaming, it might be worth not going for too much vram/ram and getting a flat out faster card/cpu... If you haven't already, I would recommend checking your build out on PCpartspicker because it's really easy there to check for alternative parts, and see where can you spend a little less, or get a bit more.. And if you really care about blender, I would take a look at the blender open benchmarks (although you should take everything there with a big pinch of salt since benchmarks also change with other pc specs). If all of this doesn't help that much, feel free to send me a link to your pcpartspicker list and I'll write my opinion. Just note that I'm a 19yo person that likes blender and did a bit of research, so don't take my word too seriously. Hope this helps ^^
I wish you would have educated the people on “running out of v ram” for the sake of really big complex scenes and the importance of accounting for your type of work.
I got an m2 beefed up Mac laptop and it is extremely fast. 8k images in 1-2 min or less. For larger files I use render farms. Laptop offers me mobility + speed and render farm offer unbelievably fast renders in the fly.
This has been really informative, as I'm getting a new laptop or desktop in the new year. I've had my Lenovo z710 laptop for like 9 years and it struggles on a NVIDIA GeForce GT745M 2GB graphics supporting DirectX 11, with an intel i7, so getting something new on a budget of 1200 will be a better difference hopefully
I learned (through pain...) that the SPEED of RAM (measured in MHz) is as important as its size. It is a deal breaker if you buy a large, but slow, RAM.
I've been having such a hard time deciding between AMD's Ryzen 7800x3D, 7900x, or if there might be a better choice. Trying to find the right balance between gaming, 3d work, and render is hard. Is there a minimum number of cores/threads needed for rendering?
At the moment, you would want at least 8 cores with 16 cores probably being ideal (more than 16 cores and you start to get into a place where the speed of a single core is low enough that the tradeoff is no longer worth it) For the choice between the two AMD options, both will do great! If you can step up to the more expensive option, it will be faster - but if budget is a factor then you will be fine at the less expensive option.
to help future newbs: i have a 5600g, 16gb of ram, a gtx 1650 4gb of vram and if you're starting it would run everything you need up until you start to mess with 4k photo realistic high poly 3d models i mean, you could technically could but i wouldn 't recommend it if you value your time, but i'd say it's a good starting point
This is so useful, I'm going to start learning blender plus other creative stuff (also programming) and I'm also going to upgrade my setup, with a budget of $1229.69 approximately, so definitely not the best but yeah. Do you have any recommendations?
According to my research GPU series 30 or 40 doesn't matters, 3060 is good for raw performance like rendering, modelling but 4050 ,4060 except gaming and AI is not even comparable to 3060. We have to go with 4070 for same performance as 3060
Hi I have a question. I’ve heard that single core is better for gaming while multi core is better for rendering. What if I want to do both? Is there a solution?
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Yes it was very helpful, now I have a Ryzen 5 3600 64 GB ddr4 and a GTX 1660 6gb but I feel that Blender does not work for me so, it would be fine if I migrate to a new PC with this, i9 12900KF, 64GB ram ddr5 and an RTX 4070 ventus 3X 12GB for Blender? although with your video the answer would be yes!
I learned you are way to long winded. You wasted the first 3 minutes on useless gestures and doodoo! Not to mention the other 4.28 wasted ramblings. All you need to do was a list 1 minute tops. No one gives a crap about single thread or minimum, looking for recommended best CPU, BEST GRAPHICS card. People looking for advice on Blended already know what it is and does.
i did a project where a single rendered frame took about 30 minutes on an m1 pro mac book pro, and less than 45 seconds on my i7 12700k with 64gb ram and a nvidia 4070 master.. the working experience on booth systems is almost the same, but the render speed differences are enormous.
Yes, you are definitely better off using PC with an NVIDIA GPU for rendering when compared to a Mac.
Is i5 14600k and rtx 4060 good for rendering?
This is by far the best-explained video of System Specification I have seen on Productivity and creative work. Subscribed! A Hidden gem you are. Keep on Keeping on! 👏💯
Wow, thanks for the kind words!
The best computer is the one you can afford.
Yes - great point!
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I’ve been doing shit on a Mac for the longest time I don’t give a rip they can take my money. I could’ve done 15 commissions in the time just trying to get it to work
So true. Any computer is a major investment for me. I use blender for 3d design mostly. I have no photorealistic or animation projects in the works. After studying the situation, I'm going with a mini that outperforms the old stuff I've been using. Hardware acceleration can wait til I actually need it.
Yeah i have a gtx 1050 2 gb laptop and a 7 gen HQ intel cpu it's not good not bad but I don't know what should i upgrade to
I'm currently in the market for a used laptop and this video helped me make an informed decision that doesn't break the bank and will also be okay for Blender:
A ThinkPad P53 Workstation laptop with an Intel i7 9th-gen Hexa-Core @ 2.6GHz, 32 GB of RAM and an Nvidia Quadro T2000 with 4GB of GDDR5 VRAM
Happy to hear that the video was helpful for you!
Nice video but the point about Macs not benefitting from GPU is not correct. Blender now has Metal API support so the GPUs in the M1 and M2 chips does make a huge improvement as opposed to rendering on the CPU alone. Ofcourse this is still nowhere near as fast as what the latest NVIDIA GPUs can do. Also, the high end M series chips can have up to 128gb of RAM shared between the CPU and GPU, so unlike a High end NVIDIA GPU that has typically has a maximum of 24GB VRAM, High-end macs can theoretically handle much larger files without hitting the memory bottleneck.
I have ran out of memory a lot on my M1 laptop, still needs improvement :(
Thanks for sharing! Helpful stuff. I can see where we could have improved our word choice on this topic - we didn't mean to mislead anyone. The main point is that for those who are looking for speed, you still need to go with a PC with NVIDIA GPU even with all the Mac improvements.
metal api is horrible
For the love of god people DO NOT BUY APPLE COMPUTERS you get more bang for your buck with windows
Linux for blender tbh BUT just as long as you can use a nvidia but amd seems to be on trail. But linux cpu utilization is intergalactic
Really enjoyed the video, considering the factors shown in the video which would be the #1 laptop right now, without budget limitations.
Hard to pick a clear #1, but two options that are definitely on the higher end of specs would be:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQNVT4S5?th=1
OR
www.dell.com/en-us/shop/laptops/intel/spd/alienware-m18-r1-laptop/wnm18r1cto20
Perfect timing thanks, helpful info :)
Glad you found this to be helpful!
I have a Mac book air from 2013 lol I can use an earlier version and blender works decent after a few fixes but it crashes and the animations are very slow. It’s good for know as I’m just learning the basics but I plan on upgrading. Thanks for sharing this 💯
Yes, if you upgrade you should consider searching for a "gaming PC". Even the lower priced options will be a big improvement from the 2013 Macbook Air
I am going for a 4070 super 12gb vram and 32 gb ddr5 RAM, I am confused between AMD Ryzen 7 7700x or Intel i7 12700k...Should I consider intel for productivity or amd for performance & futureproof for Blender?
Please send this message to team@blendersacademy.com and an instructor will try to help.
Interesting topic. Thanks for the tutorial and going into important details.
But the infinite number of this movement noise quickly became too much. Every text and every appearance of something new over and over again with the same unnecessary sounds, which are also very loud, distracts too much from the content. At least there is no background music that is the same volume as the spoken word, what many tutorials have. But unfortunately the noise makes up for it. I think less would be more.
Thank you for the feedback - we will try to improve in future videos!
Thank you for this tutorial, quick and easy explanation of all the hardware specs!
You're welcome!
You do not “need” an Nvidia Graphics Card to use Blender nor do you even need a dedicated graphics card at all. However there are benefits to using Blender on a system with a dedicated graphics card from Nvidia, AMD, or Intel.
Yes, it isn't necessary but it will be quite helpful.
@@BlenderAcademyTutorials Yes, it can be. Just addressing the incorrect statement made in this video.
I think Nvidia graphics cards will give you the greatest bang for buck. Taking the blender performance benchmarks given from the blender website into consideration.
So it sounds like aim for a Ryzen 7 7700 (since it is 8 core, 64bit), 32Gb RAM and then max out the GPU (e.g. RTX4080S)? Or better to get 2x RTX4060Ti 16Gb cards?
You'll probably be best off just going with the one better performing single GPU. Two GPUs could theoretically run faster, but your CPU could become the bottleneck if it's not fast enough to handle them both.
All you need is one RTX 3060 12gb OR A 4070 16GB. I still use an even older machine with a RTX2080 TI and It's fine for professional 3d renderings.
I use an AMD 7950X3D with two RTX 4090 and 64GB RAM - runs quite smooth but i use C4d and Maya mainly
That sounds like a pretty nice setup!
wow amazing video! Everything was so insightful and clear cut!
Really happy to hear that you liked the video!
How about AMD Ryzen? Does it work well with Blender?
Yes, it's good and fast
Yes, it's a great CPU for running Blender
@@BlenderAcademyTutorialsappreciate the video. But if it's great for blender, please tell me why Blender crashes when I go to render. I have AMD Ryzen 7
Depends which CPU or CPU GPU combination.
Check out the "blender benchmarks"
Great video!
I have a question about prioritizing specs when it comes to Blender and similar programs.
Due to my budget I have to make sacrifices with either the CPU, GPU or RAM.
Could you help me decide which specs are better to sacrifice when it comes to a smooth workflow?
These are the options:
i7-12700H > i5 -13500HX
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 > NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
36RAM > 16RAM
I know you recommend 32RAM, but it really ramps up the price so I guess I'd have to sacrifice both CPU and GPU for that.
BTW, I am getting a Lenovo Legion 5i Pro.
Thank you for your help, guys!
Of the things you listed, I would prioritize the CPU and RAM and go with the 3060 GPU.
do you think the recent model of amd graphic card can be a good alternative to the expensive nvidia option ? 😢
NVIDIA is a far better option when it comes to the types of things your computer needs to do when using Blender.
All I know is I bought a friend's Windows 10 machine awhile back because it was better for streaming OBS than either of my laptops. But now that I'm back into Blender, trying to figure out peripherals that work, following tutorials, it's just one disaster after another. Non-Miracast support, no multiple HDMI outs, and I got all excited about doing pwnisher's CG challenge...opened up my first free particle effect (a big dust cloud) and the first time I stuck it in a .blend file, my PC froze for like ten hours. I need to upgrade.
im a blender beginner.. i only have a i7 8700k with 32gb ram... no gpu... i can do alot with it but some stuff, like rendering just take for ever... i got me a 4060 and its alot better now lol
Glad to hear the NVIDIA 4060 made a big difference!
Ok
Then I am going for
12400f
32gb ddr5
Rtx 4060ti
❤(One question) do i go for 32gb ddr5 or 64gb ddr4😅
Sounds good! And if you can afford more RAM, go for it!
Anyone got any recommendations for a laptop within 4lac pkr for 3d rendering and gaming?
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Okay so the computers I'm looking at are either a intel core i7 13700KF with a 4060 TI $ or a AMD i5 5600X with a 4070 $$ and finally a intel core i7 13700KF with a 4070 TI $$$ which of these is the best for the price level
When it comes to rendering still images in Blender, the three price points will correlate to the time it takes to render your scenes with the 4060 TI being a little slower than the AMD/4070 which will be a little slower than the 4070 TI. So you'll have to be the judge of how important that time-to-render tradeoff is vs. your budget. Each file or scene will differ in the percentage increase in time that one setup will take vs. another, but they will generally perform in the order of price.
If you are producing animations, then the slower speeds compound since you're rendering hundreds or thousands of frames per animation - in that case you likely want to go for the maximum you can afford.
I am aiming for 3d animation, 3d rendering and also motion graphics. Does 16Vram enough for me? or should I aim for 24Vram gpu?
The more VRAM you can afford, the better!
I have RTX 4050 is it enough or no ?
That's a great GPU and will work great with Blender!
Can we blender cgi animation rendering on i9 13900H (14 cores) 32GB ram , intel 96 EU iris xe
Yes, you can definitely create rendered animations using the computer you mentioned.
No cause iris xe isn't enough. Try with an rtx 4060/70 or more if you can
Thank you ❤
You're welcome 😊
I have HP G3 840 core I5 6th generation. 16gb RAM, 256 SSD and 320 HDD what do you suggest how much is my system favorable with blender specs.
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I asked this question to Chat gpt for selecting best pc for my perticular budget ( although price got high from my budget) his reply was :-
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X**
- Upgrading to the Ryzen 7 5800X gives you more cores and threads, providing better performance for rendering and multitasking in Blender.
**GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060**
- The RTX 3060 offers improved rendering performance and better support for GPU-accelerated tasks in Blender compared to the GTX 1660 Super.
**RAM: 32GB DDR4**
- Increasing your RAM to 32GB will provide more headroom for larger Blender projects and improve overall system performance.
**Storage: 1TB NVMe SSD**
- A larger NVMe SSD will give you more storage space for projects and faster data access times.
**Motherboard: B550 or X570**
- Stick with a B550 or upgrade to an X570 motherboard for better features and future compatibility.
**Power Supply: 600W**
- Increase the power supply wattage to accommodate the higher-end components.
**Case: Mid-Tower Case**
- Continue with a mid-tower case with good airflow and room for future upgrades.
This upgraded configuration should provide a significant boost in performance for Blender tasks, especially with the improved CPU and GPU. Again, prices may vary, so check for the latest deals and consider future upgradability when making your purchase.
Hi, any recommendations for a laptop around 1000-1500 $ (good enough for interior designing and game environment)
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can you help me figure it out? i have a rtx 4070, it has 12gb vram of course. i am working on a big project on blender and the problem right now is that i am really low on vram, with my current budget i am looking to buy a rx 7900xtx with 24gb. i dont know if that is a good choice or not because i am worried that the 7900xtx is not worth the upgrade or will have many problems with 3d like some information i have found
Many thanks ❤
In theory, the 7900 isn't tuned to perform nearly as fast as an NVIDIA GPU, so I'm afraid that even with more VRAM, it may not give you the boost you are hoping for.
That being said, contact us at team@blenderacademy.com and an instructor will be happy to help you try to figure out an option that will work within your budget.
Is this setup good enough for blender rendering?
Processor Ii7 13700K
Motherboard MSI Pro Z790-P WI-FI DDR5
RAM Corsair Vengeance 32GB (16x2) 5200MHz DDR5
Graphics Card RTX 4070 12GB
CPU Cooler Cooler Master MasterLiquid 360L
SSD Crucial P3 500GB M.2 NVMe
SSD 2 Crucial P3 500GB M.2 NVMe
SMPS Cooler Master MWE 750 80+ Gold
Case LIAN LI Lancool 216 ARGB E-ATX TG
Yes, you can create Blender renderings with that set-up.
I have m1 max with 64gbram . But it seems still slow working for some project for me. I have budget to build pc with amd 7800x3d, rtx 4070ti, 32ram. Does this will makes change to work/render better or will it be the same with my previous m1max? Thanks
The PC build should perform better due to the fact that you have an NVIDIA GPU which is tuned to run Blender faster than Mac hardware.
What do you think about the M3 MacBook Pro for blender?
It can certainly run Blender, but if you want certain tasks to run faster - especially rendering out still images or animations - then you'll be best off with a PC that has an NVIDIA GPU.
Hi I'm currently considering learning Blender to change a job within the company I'm currently working with but I'm using a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) with following specs ;
Processor ; 2,5 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5
Memory ; 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics ; Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB
Works that I'll be doing requires NO animations, but rather heavily-detailed luxury product 3D modelling.
What should I do?
(PS this model is one of the last MacBook that some parts are still upgradeable)
Greatly appreciated for any advices.
Ideally you would upgrade your computer, either to a PC with an NVIDA GPU or to one of the new Macs with the M3 chip. These will help you model in Blender and also create realistic images of your product designs. If you need more specific guidance or have follow-along questions, be sure to send them to team@blenderacademy.com and an instructor will try to help.
I've been a Mac user all my life and have never purchased or custom built any kind of PC in the past. Is there an 'off the shelf' pc that would be a good mid to low range computer for running blender. I'm imagining doing mostly low poly work. Thanks in advance.
how much do u wanna spend
I guess I'd like to keep it around $1,000 +/- if that's even possible. @@gcontre_
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I have a pc from 2016 with core i5 6600k... 16 gb ram.. GTX970... However nowadays i am using blender as a hobby... And i feel rendering in cycles is pain in the ass with my computer 😢.. So planning to upgrade GPU to RTX 4070... I heared that it won't bottleneck with the CPU for Blender rendering.... Is this true? The bottle neck problem is only for gaming in PC? If so i can just upgrade the GPU, since changeing the whole pc will cost me more...😢 Can you advise me on this ?!
You're right that there's a bottleneck with that combo for gaming. With Blender, we have read that people are able to make the two work together successfully, but don't have firsthand experience. Here's a relevant discussion that might help: blenderartists.org/t/6700k-with-4070/1471816/14
Do I need 32 gb ram? Would 16 gb make things frustrating for me. I am confused between a i9 + 16 gb ram vs i7+32 gb ram. I want to do 3d animation.
If you have to choose between a faster CPU and more RAM, we would recommend you prioritize the CPU. So an i9 with 16GB of RAM would be a better choice over i7 with 32GB of RAM.
hello sir, im planning to upgrade my pc in the future. ill also be using blender for my works, does rendering with both cpu and gpu really is faster than using the gpu alone?
GPU alone is the fastest rendering option. When we talk about the CPU and GPU together, we are talking about how you are going to have tasks in Blender that reply on a strong CPU working in tandem with a strong GPU.
but if theres a time that when you are rendering and the errors comes out saying "system has not enough vram" then using both cpu and gpu has the same speed of rendering duration but cpu brings out help from the rams to use the ram capacities? is that the other way to work if ur scene is too heavy?
I'm about to build a pc but i don't know which processor is better. Right now I have settled on ntel core i7-14700f processor tray and amd ryzen 9 5900x, can anyone help?
Check out Blender's Open Data project where they share hardware scores so you can compare options to see which perform the best: opendata.blender.org/
I will add OS To the list. Blender works faster with Linux overall.
Thanks for sharing your experience with Linux!
Im building a new pc with i5 12400f with rtx 3060 12gb is it good ...if not can you plz recommend with is best for my budget
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What do you think about this build, because i want to upgrade to this:
- Ryzen 5 5600
- 32gb 3200Mhz ram
- rtx 3070
That will do a great job with Blender!
@@BlenderAcademyTutorials No. A Ryzen 5 is not so powerful.
hey, i'm wondering what CPU is the best for me to use since i use blender a lot. (i have a 9th GEN intel core i5 9400F 2.90ghz) I just bought a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8gb and i realized that i need a better memory card and CPU. im planning to get a 32gb (or if i can afford it) a 64gb card. i also use blender for simulations, commissions and a ton of modelling so i do ALOT in blender. What cpu do you recommend? and what works with my PC (acer nitro N50-600) (hope u answer)
For CPU, the Ryzen 5 5600 or i5 126000K CPUs should both pair well.
@@BlenderAcademyTutorials does ryzen work with intel core cpu?
Is CPU: Ryzen 5 7600X and GPU: 4060 TI 16GB a nice combo for a starter on blender? I want to build a pc that could handle Blender and explore into 3D world a bit! I will appreciate if someone answers!
That computer should do a good job with Blender as you're getting started learning it.
Which GPU will best For autoCad, Blender? 3070, 4060 12Gb, 4070 12gb?
Any of those options will be great. The 4070 will likely perform the very best, but the others are really good options as well.
I'm working on a YT video about Airplanes, and the file is getting bigger and bigger with thousands of lights and more polygons than I can spell
My system has
i5 8400,
16 GB RAM
12 GB 4070ti
The animations are rendering superfast, but the frame loading time is more than the rendering time, 20 sec of loading time and 6-8 sec of rendering and de-noising time.
Please help me, I don't know what is the main culprit, the large file?, low RAM? or my CPU?
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I have a Mac with 8 cpu cores and an 8 gb ram and let me tell you something. Rendering is horrific. I tried rendering the 7 s donut tutorial animation. My laptop managed to do 12 frames in 14 hours :(
Yeah, the hardware you mentioned is going to be slow when it comes to more intensive processes like rendering.
AMD released a driver for blender that makes it fast. But it would take a power user to figure out how to install :) so Nvidia if plugins and installs are not your thing :)
Thanks for sharing!
Ryzen 5 5600x rtx 4060 and 32gb ddr4 ram is enough?
That should work!
Can a pc with 8gb ram 500 ssd intel hd 4000 core i3 run it
While you technically might be able to run Blender, it will likely run quite slowly. You can take a closer look at the recommended requirements here: www.blender.org/download/requirements/
hey there bro i have i913900HX processor with 16 Gb of ram and a gpu of RTX 4070ti are they a good specifications for blender?
Those should work well for Blender
Hello, can you please tell me if I can make renderings with an RTX 3050 Ti video card? Together with i7-12700H and 16gb DDR5 Ram. Thanks
Yes, you can create renderings with the hardware you mentioned.
Could I have some limitations on something with this setup?
this guys information is helpful, but do not go out and break the bank,
you can always run a much older version of blender that is less system resourceful,
you can always do your base modelling with a version of blender, and do the rest on a aws(cloud computer).
aldepeping what your project is but the basic system requirements will be enough and especially if you use a much older version.
Thank you for adding your insight. Really helpful for others!
Hello. In this case is that mean that I can use a laptop with i9--13905H NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 (8GB GDDR6)GDDR6 / 32 GB memory / Nominal frequency 4.1 GHz and memory Frequency 6400 MHz for making drawing in AutoCad for interior design and after that basic modeling of the design in 3ds Max and for the rendering to use like you say aws(cloud computer) or is better to get a PC (workstation) for that although I will need to be mobile.
Amazing video, really helpful. could you please suggest a laptop or a best mobile workstation for Blender and Aftereffects in the price range of ($1500-$2000).? thank you , sorry the link you have added is not working that's why.
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Hello. Great video. Can someone tell me is this a good for AutoCAD and 3dsMax : Lenovo Yoga Pro 9 / Intel Core i9 (13th Gen) 13905H / 14-core 24 MB cache, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 / Intel Iris Xe Graphics 8 GB GDDR6 SDRAM, 64 GB - I will use it for creating interior designing projects.
That computer setup should work fine for your interior design projects.
I'm choosing rtx 4070
32 gb ram ddr4
Amd ryzen 7 5800x
1tb ssd Kingston gen 4
Case nzxt h5 flow
Cooler Nzxt T120 RGB 120mm CPU Air Cooler (White)
Power supply Asus ROG Thor 850P 850 Watt 80 Plus Platinum SMPS
Mother board msi msi b550 tomahawk
Is it good or not I want to build this pc in July and I'm saving money for that so if any advice you have on this pc pls give me
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i have i7 12th generation processor, with 16gb ram and gigabyte motherboard. should i go with rtx 3060 for 3d modelling and animation in maya and blender?
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Will I be fine with these specs?
cpu: 7800X3D
Gpu: 7900 XTX 24GB VRAM
Mem: 32 Gigs DDR5-6000
Yes. But 64gb are better! You'll stay safe
In theory, the 7900 isn't tuned to perform nearly as fast as an NVIDIA GPU.
That being said, contact us at team@blenderacademy.com and an instructor will be happy to help you try to figure out a better option that will work within your budget.
@@BlenderAcademyTutorials thanks! Will do!
U got my sub sir❤🎉
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Whatd u say about this build for blender?
CPU Ryzen 9 5900X 12Cores 3.7GHz
ASUS ROG STRIX B550-A GAMING
GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
I know the CPU is a lot better than the GPU but with my Budget (1500€) a Ryzen 9 is almost the same as the 7 and that way I can upgrade my GPU later on (cause the 40 series is way too expensive rn)
Im struggling a little with the fans tbh. Rn I have 6 fans and a single fan for the CPU since it comes without one. Would 3 instead of 6 still be enough..?
Feedback? :]
A decent GPU is far better at rendering than a CPU but if rendering with CPU blender can use all your RAM for graphics but with GPU rendering you can only use the RAM on your GPU card for the graphics. Try both see which is fastest.
@humansrants1694 yeah I've been rendering with GPU so far ngl.
Do you think the 3060 would still be good? Or what would you recommend? Cause the 4070 f.e. costs double the amount idk if I can do that.
And the Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 9 only have like a 70€ difference which is worth it to me
The 3060 will work great for Blender!
Thank you very much.
You are welcome!
Graphics card: Asus TUF-RTX4080S-16G-GAMING
Processor: Intel Core i9-14900KF - 24 cores
Mainboard: Asus TUF GAMING Z790-PLUS WIFI
Memory: Corsair VENGEANCE RGB DDR5 6000MT/s 64GB (2x32GB)
1ST SSD M.2: Samsung 1TB 980 Pro
2ND SSD M.2: Samsung 1TB 980 Pro
Power supply: Corsair RMe Series 2.0, RM750e, 80 PLUS GOLD Certified
CPU cooling: Corsair H100i ELITE CAPELLIX XT
1st fan: Corsair LL120 RGB (120mm, triple kit)
2nd fan: Corsair LL120 RGB (120mm, single pack)
Great vid very informative.
I have a laptop with i712700H . 16 GB system RAM and Rtx3050 with 4 gb VRAM.
Will it run properly on blender cycles? I mainly do architectural renderings. (Only medium projects)
Thanks
It will be able to create renderings using the Cycles rendering engine. If you were looking to upgrade, it could definitely be faster, but that is ultimately a matter of budget.
I’m going for
4070 super
Ryzen 5 7600X
32 gb ram
1 tb ssd
That sounds like a great choice!
i have i7 12400 16gb ddr5 ram can you suggest me a good gpu for blender and 3d modelling? please reply
Go with an NVIDIA RTX 3070 or 3080 as a solid choice, or you can upgrade to the NVIDIA RTX 4070 or 4080 if you can afford to.
greetings which one should i go i5-12400 or R7 5700x? pairing it with rtx3060 12gb vram
Looks like you didn’t pay attention to the video.
Multiply cpu speed with core count.
I also gonna either one of them.
R7 got 2 more cores but it costs 60$ more.
I am gonna look for benchmarks online and see if 60$ are worth the extra scores.
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For Blender My set up will be
Ryzen 9 5950x 16cores
128gb DDR4 3600 RAM
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM
I'm not going to Crossfire 2 4090's lol I'm gonna have to go with what I got.
That's a great system!
When you try volume explosions big ones for animation you will want two 4090.
@@humansrants1694 welll... I'm gonna have to wait for a bit before I can do 2 of them.
Now, this is a perfect explainer video... Thanks
You're welcome!
Are AMD GPUs an inferiour choice compared to NVIDIA? You didn't even mention them.
NVIDIA are better for rendering given their real-time raytracing architecture.
Nvidia are certainly considered the "safe bet", but the generally lower price of AMD cards make them an appealing option. I'm running Blender 3.6 on Linux with an AMD 5700xt and GPU renders are very fast. However, you do have to do your research to make sure you have the correct driver versions or whether AMD has added support for your card. AMD seems to intentionally make it as difficult as possible to get your AMD card working for production workstations.
They are missing a big opportunity here sell a ton more GPUs.
After quite a bit of research, I ended up making my list with a Ryzen 5 5600X, RTX 3060, 32GB DDR4 (3600MHz) and two M2 ssds. If by the time I buy my new PC (later this year, November or December) the prices have dropped then I might go, depending on the said prices, with a RTX 4070.
Sounds like a powerful computer - should be a lot of fun to use with Blender!
Wait, the 5600x isnt only can use ram with 3200Mhz max? I mean the AMD website says this.
I think that is the stock ram speed with no OC profile. At least I've seen builds online with 5600X and 3600MHz sticks.
have you purchaged?
what about ryzen 7 5700g
It's not the best option for rendering - if you would like to discuss more options with one of our instructors, send a message to team@blenderacademy.com
Ddr4 24Gb ram
12400 i5 Intel
Intel Arc A750 Literally equalls rtx3060
Guess I can able to make at least a City render with these shits...
I'll hand on the whole world in future 💀
The Intel Arc isn't comparable to an NVIDIA GPU when it comes to the speed that the latter will offer you. If you need more help choosing hardware, please send this message to team@blenderacademy.com and an instructor will be happy to try to help
what about if it has a 2.9 ghs? Ive heard that's fast
That is a reasonable speed for a CPU. It all really comes down to budget and what you need to do with Blender...
I run HP z8xx type servers which uses dual E5-269x CPU, 64gb RAM, with 1 RTX3090 (24Gb VRAM) so far, but will be bumped to 4.
I noticed that when preparing a frame for GPU rendering, my CPU only uses 1 core ("charge" open movie, 1.4GB). i tried the same with other demo files from the belnder website.
Is this normal practise?
I was expecting multithreading for frame preparation to speed up the process.
Thanks
The CPU processes all the necessary data first and sends it to VRAM where the GPU can then be used to work on the rendering.
Presuming that your GPU is working at 100% capacity, the CPU will only send data as needed so that it's not trying to push anything to the GPU when it's already at full working capacity. That would mean only a single CPU core is needed, as prepping multiple frames at once wouldn't speed things up since you can't feed those frames into the rendering pipeline any faster than the GPU can handle them.
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i use dell laptop 62 bit i can model some character but it get worse when i animate and render. don't buy laptop it waste of money
Yes, a desktop PC will generally have more powerful hardware for these types of more complex tasks
Seems like I can't afford...
Just buy a mac studio ultra. Please dont buy mac mini so laggy
Thanks for sharing your insights!
i think that ram matters the most
Macbook Pro 13,3 with 8 cores for Blender? Are you kidding? :)
For video editing yes, but for Blender... no
Sadly this is best advice for cycles, not eevee. :(
While we certainly cover things you should know for Cycles, the principles still apply to EEVEE. You can get away with lesser hardware with EEVEE, but the same principles apply.
Buy a cheap workstation…
Thanks for that tip!
@@BlenderAcademyTutorials Like a HP Z6 G4, Dell Precision or Lenovo ThinkStation.
You probably should have mentioned the diminishing returns of multiple gpus, and that mixing gpus makes it slower more often than not. You are far better off with a single very fast gpu with lots cores and memory, than two lesser ones that would cost the same. Personally I only recommend the RTX 4070ti and up for Blender gpu rendering. It isn't a power hog, has 12 gig of memory, and does renders very fast.
Thank you for sharing your insight - very helpful!
diminishing returns of multi GPU setups is usually because the processor bottlenecks or the PCIe lanes do. Standard consumer grade CPU's usually max out at 16-28 PCIE lanes, and a high end GPU Requires 8 or 16 to run at full speed. In order to run multi GPU setups properly, you need server or HEDT grade processors, such as threadripper, epyc or Xeon CPU's.
Plus you do absolutely have to match GPU's, and realistically its something that's only done with absolute top end cards to begin with, IE multiple RTX 4090's because there simply isn't a more powerful GPU available. Otherwise yes with a standard CPU and motherboard, it is better to use a single more powerful GPU than two weaker ones, especially since mutli GPu setups cannot share VRAM.
Thus multi GPU setups is largely limited to professional grade animations a high resolutions.
A very well done video!
Your explanations are very clear and engaging. Helped me decide the right CPU for my next PC.
Thanks a lot!
Just a quick thing that I would like to add. Some GPUs are very heavily optimised towards blender in comparison to other GPUs, so if you do more gaming than blender, it might be worth checking other benchmarks too. The other thing is, Nvidia 40 series isn't very worth it imho, since they tend to prioritise slightly higher performance with less vram... So also with investigating.
I'll give an example for both. For me, the RX 6700 XT, Arc 770, RTX 4060 and RTX 3060 are about the same price, but I'll probably end up buying the 3060 because it has more vram than the 4060, and it's optimised much better for blender in comparison to the Intel and AMD cards...
Hope that helps
Thank you for the kind words and for the helpful feedback!
have you purchaged?
i'm also going with 3060 but the budget is 1000$
so can you suggest other components with future proof
@@viipeditz Hi
Well, that really depends on where u live (because of prices), and what do you prioritise in a pc... If you mainly want a good pc for big heavy scenes, you might want to get more RAM and VRAM and cut wherever you can, but if you only want fast render times with smaller scenes, or if you do more gaming, it might be worth not going for too much vram/ram and getting a flat out faster card/cpu...
If you haven't already, I would recommend checking your build out on PCpartspicker because it's really easy there to check for alternative parts, and see where can you spend a little less, or get a bit more.. And if you really care about blender, I would take a look at the blender open benchmarks (although you should take everything there with a big pinch of salt since benchmarks also change with other pc specs).
If all of this doesn't help that much, feel free to send me a link to your pcpartspicker list and I'll write my opinion. Just note that I'm a 19yo person that likes blender and did a bit of research, so don't take my word too seriously.
Hope this helps ^^
I wish you would have educated the people on “running out of v ram” for the sake of really big complex scenes and the importance of accounting for your type of work.
Thanks for sharing that feedback - we will definitely include that note for future updates to our lessons.
If you have the budget, try not to buy an AMD GPU, Nvidia's OptiX is very efficient.
Good tip!
I got an m2 beefed up Mac laptop and it is extremely fast. 8k images in 1-2 min or less. For larger files I use render farms. Laptop offers me mobility + speed and render farm offer unbelievably fast renders in the fly.
Thanks for sharing your experience!
M2 Max@@ghostrun101
Well, compared to a similar prized PC, this isn't considered fast...
So which lap top should I get for blender🤔
How many GB RAM?
I found the most helpful tip on how to calculate the Core and speed of the CPU.
Thanks for sharing!
Big help and info dump, Thanks!
You're welcome!
This has been really informative, as I'm getting a new laptop or desktop in the new year. I've had my Lenovo z710 laptop for like 9 years and it struggles on a NVIDIA GeForce GT745M 2GB graphics supporting DirectX 11, with an intel i7, so getting something new on a budget of 1200 will be a better difference hopefully
You should be able to get a desktop PC for around $1200 USD that would be able to do a good job of running Blender.
As a 3D artist for the last twenty years. I only use PC's with RTX GPU'S. So does every 3D design studio I have ever worked in. Just saying.
Yep - that's the best setup for getting the fastest performance out of Blender!
I learned (through pain...) that the SPEED of RAM (measured in MHz) is as important as its size. It is a deal breaker if you buy a large, but slow, RAM.
Thanks for sharing your experience!
Id argue that size is more important. I dont think its possible to do any professional work with 8gb of ram.
I've been having such a hard time deciding between AMD's Ryzen 7800x3D, 7900x, or if there might be a better choice. Trying to find the right balance between gaming, 3d work, and render is hard. Is there a minimum number of cores/threads needed for rendering?
At the moment, you would want at least 8 cores with 16 cores probably being ideal (more than 16 cores and you start to get into a place where the speed of a single core is low enough that the tradeoff is no longer worth it)
For the choice between the two AMD options, both will do great! If you can step up to the more expensive option, it will be faster - but if budget is a factor then you will be fine at the less expensive option.
to help future newbs: i have a 5600g, 16gb of ram, a gtx 1650 4gb of vram and if you're starting it would run everything you need up until you start to mess with 4k photo realistic high poly 3d models
i mean, you could technically could but i wouldn 't recommend it if you value your time, but i'd say it's a good starting point
Thanks for sharing your experience!
This is so useful, I'm going to start learning blender plus other creative stuff (also programming) and I'm also going to upgrade my setup, with a budget of $1229.69 approximately, so definitely not the best but yeah.
Do you have any recommendations?
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According to my research GPU series 30 or 40 doesn't matters, 3060 is good for raw performance like rendering, modelling but 4050 ,4060 except gaming and AI is not even comparable to 3060. We have to go with 4070 for same performance as 3060
Hi I have a question. I’ve heard that single core is better for gaming while multi core is better for rendering. What if I want to do both? Is there a solution?