Restart & Hardware advice

[leedeetee]

Hello all,

I've been away a little while but I used to be quite active on Sketchucation and on here.

This lockdown has given me a bit of spare time to think and I've come to the conclusion I want to get back into things that I love doing and make me happy - Sketchup and TWR!

I am however, a bit out of the loop. I only have a laptop at the minute after my desktop died a year or so ago and looking to re-invest for a new set up in my office.

I've never been the most tech savvy so just wondering what sort of desktop kit I would be looking at to make the most our of SketchUp and my TWR? Is it still a case of getting the best processor you can afford?

Many thanks - and any advice really is appreciated.

Cheers

[Fletch]

You can now purchase "Fast Forward" denoise add-on for Twilight Render Pro. This will use either your NVIDIA GPU or your CPU (for Mac or people without NVIDIA GPU)
Other than that, yes, the CPU is what will give you rendering power, so buy the best you can afford.
Min. 16GB RAM is recommended (not a minimum, just recommended) these days - seems like Windows will take up half of whatever RAM you give it.

i9-9900k is interesting (8cores, 16 threads at 3.6Ghz)
also sounds good: Intel® Core™ i7-9750H (6 cores, 12 threads at 2.6Ghz)

Check out some CPU benchmarks:


PassMark - "Value" Price Performance (CPU Mark / $Price) Top 100 All-Time Price Performance CPUs Updated 11th of April 2020

another cpu benchmark site

another cpu benchmark site

[leedeetee]

Thanks so much for this - really, really helpful. See you around.

[leedeetee]

Sorry, I have one last (stupid) question.

I am planning on buying the SketchUp pro version - I am assuming twilight will work with this desktop version rather than the web based ones?

Thank you.

[Chris]

Yes, Twilight Render works with the desktop version. I'm not sure the web based version supports any plugins at all. If it does (or when it does), I'm sure it will only support pure Ruby plugins.

[Fletch]

The MSI GL series is an "affordable" laptop - if you find one that has a corei7 9th gen with 12 threads at 3.49Ghz it renders really nicely with Twilight Render. I suggest IPS screen.

[leedeetee]

Thanks guys, again, really appreciated.