This question doesn’t seem to be about using Blender or in any way related to the software as defined in the help center
I finally need to upgrade my hardware. I´m mostly interested in display and render speed, I don´t make complex physics or liquid simulations.
Just to summarize:
Option 1 is a Dell XPS with i9 12900K, 3060 TI and 16 GB DDR5 at 4400 MHz.
Option 2 is a tacky HP thing for gaming. It has AMD Ryzen 9-5900X, 3080 and 64 GB DDR4 at 3200Mhz.
Price is similar. Option 1 has better CPU but worse GPU, and less but faster RAM. Buying more RAM is easy, but in these times getting a better GPU is not, so I suppose I´d have to stick with the worse GPU for years.
I’ve re-tagged this as “off-topic chat”, since hardware recommendations have in the past been here
Option 1 has a 367 CPU score on Blender OpenData, option 2 has a 321 CPU score.
Option 1 has a 3019 GPU score, option 2 has a 4914 GPU score.
The difference in CPUs in Blender between your options, then, is almost negligible. There’s no noticeable difference in their scores, the best you could gain is a couple seconds on multiple minute renders. The difference in GPU scores is huge. I would from this highly recommend option two. Option 2 also has a much more reasonable amount of RAM for Blender- 16 GB isn’t enough for super detailed renders. RAM speed is great, and DDR5 is definitely faster, but it doesn’t really matter how fast your RAM is when what you need is a lot of it. Blender needs a lot of RAM
I would def buy option 2. It doesn’t seem like you care much about cpu computation if you’re not doing physics or liquid sims and the 5900X is still a great cpu. In terms of display and render speed the 3080 is going to blow the 3060 Ti out of the water, so I would prioritize that. There’s a lot you can do with 9000 CUDA cores! I also agree with @joseph that quantity of RAM matters more than speed in this case.
Option 2 would be my go to for me! Hope this helps!
@DumbPolygon before posting you can do some digging and searching where to post on forum. There is a search function for that.
As for your question I’d go for option 2 as @joseph and @em87 mentioned. For your use case GPU performance is much more important than CPU and the difference between 3060 Ti and 3080 is quite substantial.
Haha yeah, I get where you’re coming from. I’m not a gamer but I buy gaming parts for Blender If it has a bunch of RGB fans and stuff you’re not a fan of, those are super easy to switch out, luckily
If it has a bunch of RGB fans and stuff you’re not a fan of, those are super easy to switch out, luckily