Apart from being a programmer I am also a hobby 3D designer, 3D artist, webdesigner and photographer. My current XMG C405 laptop is getting old and has a few issues, the main one being, it only has one HDMI out.
Now I want to replace that old machine with a new one, but I cannot quite find any reliable information about 3D creation performance. There is a ton of benchmarks for gaming but that is not very comparable by my experience.
So here are the two setups I had in mind. One using Ryzen and one using Coffee Lake. The reason why I consider Ryzen is the better multi core performance. Also all the 3D and Adobe software I use supports multi core.
The Ryzen setup
- CPU: Ryzen 7 2700X
- MB: ASUS PRIME X470-PRO
- GPU: SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 580 PULSE
- RAM: G.Skill DIMM DDR4-3200 32GB manufacturer code: F4-3200C16S-16GVK
- SSD: Samsung 960 EVO 1TB
The Coffeelake setup is basically the same just the CPU and mainboard are different
- CPU: Core i7-8700K
- MB: ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-F Gaming
- GPU: SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 580 PULSE
- RAM: G.Skill DIMM DDR4-3200 32GB manufacturer code: F4-3200C16S-16GVK
- SSD: Samsung 960 EVO 1TB
Which one would you consider better for 3D graphics and photography. Would you switch any parts?
EDIT: What would you guys say about the graphics card for rendering and graphics? I checked out the nvidia GTX 1060 but it seemed a bit expensive for the few percent more performance, do you have any suggestion?
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