The actual price difference is NOT what you describe, and stop watching ServeTheHome where they constantly gush over these things! Your #1 concern for Rhino is getting the best Nvidia GPU you can afford, a mini PC is not gonna give you many options.
… no. Just no. Bull*****.
Often AMD GPUs cost less and perform more, while giving you more graphic memory.
Check. Every time you make a build go google “this vs that” and see the results.
Bye! Have a nice evening and weekend.
No, it’s just the cold fact that only one chip maker is EVEN TRYING to make decent OpenGl drivers, and there is no substitute for CUDA cores for GPU rendering.
This thread lean toward the “cheap”, “small”, “minipc”… why you are talking about rendering?
Not everything rotates around rendering. I never do rendering and I bought an AMD card that costed me half of a same performance Nvidia card with also less memory.
If this thread was about rendering, sure, check what Nvidia Cuda cand do but also what CPU can achieve for similar costs!
No, this thread is about cheap hardware. No rendering.
Nvidia doesn’t make CPUs, doesn’t make desktop APUs. I’d like if it did. More competitors.
For low budget, always consider any option!
On low budget hardware Gpu raytracing rendering is not always better than CPU rendering.
here I suggested a build with Nvidia 4060.
If you want to promote Nvidia and cuda, make a dedicated thread where you can do advertisement.
… I think my opinion is clear. I’m blocking notifications from this thread as priorities seems to be shifted.
Bye.
“… spending 2x money for… ? …”
Why the power of RAM isn’t (64 Gb) it important?
If you are going to need 64GB of ram, it means you are doing something REALLY wrong … or it means you also need 2000€+ hardware.
Today 2024, with 16GB you can work with anything. I think even 8GB can be enough and still be very productive.
I’m not a computer expert, but why do they market 32-64 GB of RAM mini PCs?
Yesterday I found a long list of them.
I don’t understand.
I’m not a computer expert, but why do they market 32-64 of RAM GB mini PCs?
Yesterday I found a long list of them.
I don’t understand.
It’s not about just rendering, it’s about not losing work due to “random” OpenGl crashes.
Never crashed anything here. You are giving misinformation.
Seriously, stop it.
the Mac Studio is available with 192 GB RAM, that is a serious machine. though they claim its tighter integrated with the system now so you might need less, but tests showed even there it makes a significant difference how much RAM. i would not buy anything below 32 anyway… have 64 myself and its finally ok to work now.
I am trying to provide straightforward advice on the safest way to spend limited dollars. Don’t accuse me of spreading “disinformation” because I disagree with your sample size of ONE. Good for you, never mind all the questions here over the years that are answered with “that AMD card has driver issues, you need to lower the OpenGl level to get it to work.”
You could be right. The storage on it looks impressslive and there is a video with a AMD 6400 inside.
The asrock deskmeet is quite larger but you can get a 200 mm gpu in. Got one for my son that works fine If a bit warm.
Though I did change it for an nvidia, once I got past some early OpenGL hiccups, my experience with my Arc A770 was very good. Blender OpenGL has been fine with it as well, and it was a good rendering card in Blender, with the legs to keep up with the 4060 in many instances. I even linked it to Twinmotion Live Link rendering for Rhino, which I expected to crash and burn.
I only changed to an nvidia for the sheer power and flexibility for current GPU renderers, but I’m looking forward to the next generation Arc.
What is most important when purchasing is objectivity. I’ve had my fair share of Rhino errors on my nvidia 970M laptop. I almost got a 7900XTX, too because they are good value now.