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🧵 Will these specs be good for Maya?

Anonymous at Fri, 13 Aug 2021 20:40:41 UTC No. 844054

Hello. I'm currently looking for a new laptop that can run maya well. I'm looking for something that can smoothly run 3d animation, 3d modeling, renders (mainly arnold), and nparticle sims (such as bifrost fluid sims). It needs to also be able to run Unreal engine smoothly at decent settings.

I am aware that Maya uses many single-core operations with the exception of Bifrost sims and 3d renders which use as many cores as you can throw at them.

The specs are:

CPU: intel core i7-10700 (non k)

GPU: NVIDIA rtx 2070 super

RAM: 32 gigs

Storage: ssd, possibly RAID 0

For a little more context, the i7-10700 has 8 cores clocked at 2.9 GHz (up to 4.8 with intel turbo) and 16 threads.

I'm not sure if this is a good place to ask but I appreciate any help :)

Anonymous at Fri, 13 Aug 2021 21:10:02 UTC No. 844068

>>844054
That's good for a laptop but when you say smoothly, it (A) depends on what you really are animating/producing and (B) you will never truly get to a level a desktop/sever will produce. So in reality, yes, it can do those jobs but it still won't be as fast as a dedicated desktop. Laptops get super fucking hot, super fucking quick because of how condensed everything is under the housing. The fact that you want to do a raid under a laptop isn't going to work the same way it would under a desktop/sever environment. It's literally an apples to oranges type scenario. Yes you can get it done but it's like crabapples to little clementines compared to full sized.

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Anonymous at Sat, 14 Aug 2021 01:40:34 UTC No. 844137

>>844068
So the laptop I'm looking at is one of the Alienware Area 51m r2 ones that house desktop parts as opposed to laptop-specific ones.

I'm currently using an old dual-core 2.4 GHz processor with some obscure nvidia chip from years ago. I'm not looking to do anything super super crazy because I'm still going to school for this stuff but for reference my current computer takes 17+ hours to render a 180 frame animation consisting of nothing but a moving robot (textured and light) in a grey void with the render settings cranked up.

I'd like to buy something that can handle fairly large complex scenes that will continue being able to do so for a while as I learn more and make more complex stuff. I know nparticles in specific are quite taxing.

Anonymous at Sat, 14 Aug 2021 09:54:21 UTC No. 844167

>>844137
if you want to render an animation you should use a farm