Hello All,
I am planning to buy a new Laptop (budget 3k USD), need help in deciding which brand and what spec I should be looking for.
My usage pattern is running -
Rhino 7 + Keyshot 11 + Adobe CC tools + Microsoft Outlook & Teams all running simultaneously. The render quantity and quality requirements are usually very high.
My current Laptop config -
Dell Precision 5530
Intel i7-8850H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz
64 GB RAM
Intel UHD Graphics 630 + NVIDIA Quadro P2000 Graphics Card
1 TB SSD
Here are some issues I am facing with my current laptop:
- This is a 4 year old laptop and now I am feeling the performance has degraded as the Keyshot versions have advanced.
- Sometimes Keyshot freezes and after being hung for a while, it crashes and the work is not even saved.
- Whenever I check graphic card usage in task manager only Intel GPU is used and NVIDIA GPU appears idle, not sure why.
Can anyone please suggest which new Laptop I should buy and what config is recommended if I want to run Rhino 7 + Keyshot 11 + Adobe CC tools + Microsoft Outlook & Teams all running simultaneously?
Hi Vivek,
I would never advice a laptop if you work with 3D. Paying at least double for not even half the performance. But of course it can be useful to be able to move your work place around. If you usally just work from one spot I would always go for a desktop and maybe a cheaper laptop to be able to work on location.
Rendering on a laptop is also so slow that it’s only nice if you get paid by the hour while rendering. A laptop will ‘melt’ if it would have the same capabilities as a fast desktop so every part in a laptop is not comparable to it’s desktop version carrying the same name.
If you really really need a laptop I would buy one with a consumer graphics card like a 4090, for what you do the Quadro series cost more but are basically slower in most circumstances. For example my desktop 3090 is 11x as fast as the P2000 in your laptop ( CUDA Benchmarks - Geekbench Browser).
Just remember a laptop 4090 isn’t comparable with a desktop 4090, for CPU’s that’s the same. It really depends on how important it is for you to be able to render on a different ‘mobile’ spot but I rather would build a mini desktop (well needs to be able to fit a big GPU 
) to carry along than waste money on a laptop. It’s the same why I’m not a fan of iMac’s, laptop parts in a nice case. Just terribly overpriced looking at performance. Laptops and rendering don’t go together really well.
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Oscar pretty much hit the nail on the head there with his recommendation. Also, I’ll mention, any time you run multiple programs at the same time, you’re cutting the performance in each program. Even with a top-end dekstop workstation, I only run as few software at a time to maximize performance in each one. Just something else to consider.
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