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Thank you all! This has been very helpful and I can now make my decision based on your expertise. Thanks again!

Hello! I'm not very knowledgable about the subject so I'd like to ask you guys for help! I've been searching for a long time and read various articles and forum discussions but I still can't find an answer to this: I've been planning on building a PC for rendering purposes (and some light gaming). My father, though is pushing me towards buying a laptop with the argument that it draws less power and is therefore more economical. Laptops are more expensive and frankly have nothing to offer that I find usefull, while also having many drawbacks, so I'm very sceptical about this. The way I see it, since a laptop's processor draws less power, it also does less calculations per cycle (right?). Therefore, it will draw less power while rendering but it will also prolong the rendering process. In the end it will just consume the same power while also taking more time for the render. I have a VERY vague idea of this stuff so please clear up any misunderstandings I've made, Thanks a lot!

Thanks a lot everyone! I'll be looking into all of your suggestions

Hello everyone, I am going to be building my own PC and, although I've learned a LOT from this place, I'm still very uninformed about GPUs. I am going to be using Blender3D and UE4 a lot. Maybe I'll also game a little. Do you have any suggestions in regards to VRAM or anything else? 200$ is all I can go for unfortunately. Thanks in advance guys:)

Hi guys! I'm not sure where to post this but this seems like the right place. How can I find benchmarks for what I want my machine to do? I'm trying to build a machine for 500euro. I'm constantly using Blender3D for modeling and UnrealEngine4 for game making. Are the benchmarks for gaming going to apply to modeling and game dev as well? Thanks in advance!