Computer for a beginner

[watercycles]

I posted this in another thread.

@watercycles

If you go with the Ryzen 5700G you could skip getting a video card and render faster on cpu. Blender doesn’t need that much of a card and the 5700g does pretty good in gaming.

classroom rendering benchmark blender
GTX 1050 with cuda = 1100
5700G cpu rendering 300 x (20k/14.2k) = 422 Had to do some calculation from the cinebench r23 score in comparison to the 5900x blender benchmark as there is no 5700g benchmark.

So you render about 3x faster on the 5700G than the GTX 1050 and save about $356 switching from the Intel +1050 to the AMD. That $356 can be used to a $500 RTX 3070 when the prices become retail.

If you do go 5700G change the motherboard so it works.

The idea is the 5700G keeps you from having to buy a video card now. Save that money for later when the card prices become reasonable.