I’m not going to get a 4090. Or 4080. I’m going for the value buy. If you were buying a new window’s system and were after value over performance, what would you settle on right now? As a bit of a light-weight when it comes to video cards, I’m wondering a few things: Is an older generation card …

Did you read this?: [image] If you are buying a new laptop READ THIS Windows Hardware If you are in the market for a new lap top to run rhino. Most importantly, Look for one with a standalone video card. Specifically an nvidia or amd. More vram and more rendering cores…

Do you want to Run Cycles? V-Ray or Other Raytracing tools? Otherwise, you will be good with any GPU with 8 GB VRAM. I’m running huge files on my work’s laptop and Rhino’s viewport seems to be fine, especially with Rhino V8 which can run nicely on mid-tier windows laptop. My suggestion for you is …

Did you read this?: I did. Note that post is two years old. I’m especially curious about how Radeon cards perform as I don’t see much about them in these forums. Everyone’s scared of them? A Desktop will cost less and be faster than a comparable laptop. This isn’t always true. Where I live, …

Thanks Tay! for a laptop 3060 can be tighter on the memory side since it has only 6GB instead of 12gb on the desktop variant. How important is video memory do you figure? It’s hard to find something on a budget with more than 8GB video memory.

[image] Keithscadservices: I did. Note that post is two years old. I’m especially curious about how Radeon cards perform as I don’t see much about them in these forums. Everyone’s scared of them? Hardware requirements haven’t changed much for Rhino since V6. AMD seems incapable of writing so…

If $500 is considered budget - I’d highly suggest the 16 gig variant of the 4060 ti. More VRAM is definitely better. You won’t have quite the render power with that card as the higher end variants, but you’d have to go all the way up to a 4080 to get the same VRAM as this card, which is 2x the cost.…

Thanks Sky! All that is really helpful. I’m still learning about cores and threads and such. Things have changed A LOT since I last built a PC. There’s a couple interesting takes from the article: the laptop RTX 4090 has more in common, in terms of hard specs, with the desktop Nvidia GeForce RTX …

[image] John Brock: Hardware requirements haven’t changed much for Rhino since V6. AMD seems incapable of writing solid performing OpenGL drivers. Personally, I’ve written them off entirely Thanks!! In that case I’ll likely avoid the Radeon as I’d rather things work reliably opposed to aimin…

The 4060 Ti is definitely the only way to currently go for RAM. There have been a few discussions on this topic (GeForce in general), and their cost… [image] An nVidia RTX 4060, 4070, 4080, 4090, A6000, A3000, Others Chart Windows Hardware AMD has been playing catch-up w…

+1 to everything @David53 said! And that video comparing the 4060 desktop and mobile variants - one way of looking at that is “wow the mobile variant is really good” - but the flip side is “wow the desktop version is so weak, they just threw it in a laptop and called it good.” If you want value - do…

Video cards to consider for Rhino/Windows in 2023 "on a budget"

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John_Brock (John Brock) November 16, 2023, 7:31pm 2

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A Desktop will cost less and be faster than a comparable laptop.

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