[HJames Relyea]

Hello,

Our company is looking into upgrading our designers computers. Currently we are experiencing rendering times of between 10-35 minutes depending on the detail of the kitchen. If we were to use the Recommended hardware specs (including SSD’s) posted on 2020spaces.com. How much of an improved render time would we potentially see? (current specs attached)

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[Mike Langensiepen]

IMHO 2020 seems all about the processor speed. I would aim most of your money towards buying the very fastest i5 or i7 processor you can afford. A dedicated gpu is a sensible choice but 2020 really doesn’t seem to (at the moment) use the power of the GPU – I see only 3-5% difference between low spec and VERY high spec Nvidia adapters. SSDs are nice but not essential and only speed up program and drawing load and save times.

Also, after some recent testing, I’d rather get a fast i5 than a slower i7.

My minimum spec recommendation would be as follows:

i5-8600K (i7-8600K preferred) Processor
GTX1050 (1080 preferreed) GPU
8GB of RAM
128GB SSD Primary and 1TB HD Secondary

Stay away from AMD stuff – poor performance and problematic drivers on the graphics.

Also and I can’t recommend this highly enough – do a time test between the same design on one of your existing computers and then on a machine of similar specification to the one you are considering. The results might surprise you.

[HJames Relyea]

Thanks for the honest advice Mike! We’re going to test one against our current machines and see what kind of improvement we end up with.