Best Laptop for Daz Studio with more than 3000 assets ?

absoma02

Hello friends, I am new to the forum, and today I have a great dilemma, I have the option of 2 laptops that have the same cost but I don't know which one to choose.

One is a TITAN has a 10-core 10-core Core I9 and 10th generation, the bad thing about it is an RTX 2080 Super and I say the bad thing because the 3080 has already come out that although in the laptop version I have heard that it does not make a big difference but in I don't really know if it's all true.

finally I leave the direct link of the laptop https://us.msi.com/Laptop/GT76-Titan-10SX/Specification

The other equipment is a newer one, it is the GE76 Raider, it has an 8-Core Core I7 equal to the 10th generation and it has an RTX 3080.

and I leave the direct link of the laptop https://us.msi.com/Laptop/GE76-Raider-Dragon-Edition-Tiamat-10UX/Specification

not to mention that the team does not want him to play games but to work with development and creation of professional-level 3D content such as modeling, renders and both 3D images and high-quality 3D animations, for example creation of towns or cities and realistic characters with its joints and muscles for the simulation of collisions, gravity and also liquid simulations among other things.

So I would like to know if you had the opportunity to choose, which team would you take for this kind of work?

I hope you can help me with this dilemma, thank you very much in advance.

Silver Dolphin

I would go with the 3080 if you are gonna do Iray it is faster, but you are gonna need a laptop cooler and have someone check the thermal paste on your grapics card. $4000 is a hefty price to render pictures. If you are gonna spend this much and use for Iray I would get the extended warrenty because Iray is gonna heat your 3080 up. 16gb of video ram is really nice you can get most of your renders done with this much vram. I have a 3090 and it is a heat source I'm just glad I live up north and it is cool most of the time. Hope this helps.

absoma02

Silver Dolphin said:

I would go with the 3080 if you are gonna do Iray it is faster, but you are gonna need a laptop cooler and have someone check the thermal paste on your grapics card. $4000 is a hefty price to render pictures. If you are gonna spend this much and use for Iray I would get the extended warrenty because Iray is gonna heat your 3080 up. 16gb of video ram is really nice you can get most of your renders done with this much vram. I have a 3090 and it is a heat source I'm just glad I live up north and it is cool most of the time. Hope this helps.

Actually, the renders are a performance reference, if I make sure that my laptop does not slow down with so many assets installed and that it supports the Daz3D renders that are so heavy when there are so many assets installed, I can be sure that when I work In blender or in Godot I will never have a problem and of course you helped me and I thank you very much

Richard Haseltine

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DustRider

Here is a bit of info on the 3080 Laptop GPU (https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-3080-Mobile-GPU-Benchmarks-and-Specs.497450.0.html). The 16Gb of memory would be amazing!!

I have a Titan GT76 with a RTX 2070 (8Gb), an i9 9900K (8 cores, 16 threads), and 128Gb RAM. I have been very happy with it. The biggest downside to the Titan is it's huge, and has two power bricks!! But it is also has very efficient cooling In "Sport" mode (MSI Dragon Center that gives you the ability to control fan speed/noise and performance) everything stays at very decent temps and the fan noise isn't overpowering . MSI does a great job of designing very efficient cooling systems, but keep in mind the GE76 is a "thin" laptop, so cooling will be more of an issue. This will probably mean that it will either mean throttling down the CPU/GPU or running the fans at high speeds (running in "Turbo" mode, and sounding like a small jet engine ). Also keep in mind that the 2080 in the Titan is a desktop GPU, and will have almost the same performance as the same GPU in a desktop, the 3080 it a laptop specific GPU, that will have lower performance than the desktop version (especially if it is run in "Q" mode to reduce power and cooling requirements)

It's kind of a personal choice whether you want the extra GPU memory and a possible performance hit and/or increased fan noise, or the larger system with less noise. less GPU memory, and an older. The Titan will also give you better options for internal storage capacity/expandability (mine had 8 TB, 3 SSD's and one spinning HD at 2Tb each). If you do decide to go with the GE676 Raider, be sure you get at least 32Gb of system RAM, and preferably 48 or 64!! You need a minimum of 2x the amount for GPU memory to use it efficiently with DS. I often use over 20Gb with just my 8Gb GPU!!  With a quick look at my galleries, you can see what can be done with the GTX 2070.

I should probably also note that I got my Titan to work with software other than DAZ Studio, hence the extra RAM and storage. It performs extremely well with Blender, Agisoft Metashape, Hitfilm, Shotcut, Davinci Resolve, QGIS, Global Mapper, Gimp, DarkTable etc. The main reason for the RAM/Storage were to run Metashape (photogrammetry) with large projects (1,400+ photos) and Global Mapper (Lidar analysis). Your needs will probably be based more on what DS needs, so a max of 64Gb of RAM should be more than adequet.