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SwilleyDesign
By SwilleyDesign
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Hey all,

 

So I am wondering what you would recommend for a graphics card with the minimum being GTX 1060.  I do custom residential design using Sketchup and Twinmotion (recently acquired by Unreal Engine). Are there any other creators out there and what do you use/recommend?  Any examples of your work I could see?

 

This is what I am currently going for.

Graphics card High-end graphics card
(at least 8,000 PassMark points)
Graphics card memory 6 GB or more
Graphics card examples NVIDIA GTX 1060 (6 GB memory), Quadro K6000)
Operating system 64-bit Windows 10, 8.1 or 7 SP1 with all updates installed.
CPU (Processor) Intel Core i7 with 4.0 GHz base/boost speed or higher
Monitor resolution Minimum 1920 x 1080 pixels
System memory (RAM) 32 GB with as high a MHz value as possible
Hard drive Minimum 30 GB of disk space on the drive that the Windows User Account is located on.
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The K-series Quadro cards are getting quite old, steer clear of them. Think of them as Geforce 800 series.

 

 

Screwdriver specs: Long, pointy. Turns things. Some kind of metal.

 

Main rig: 

i9-7900x | Asus X299-Prime | 4x8GB G-Skill TridentZ @3300MHz | Samsung 970 Evo 500GB | Intel 5400S 1TB | Corsair HX1200

 

unRAID server:

Xeon  E5-1630v4 |  Asus X99-E WS | 4x8GB G-Skill DDR4 @2400MHz | Samsung 960 EVO 250GB cache drive | 12TB spinning rust | Corsair RM750X

 

FreeNAS server:

AMD something-or-other | Asus prebuilt sadness | 8GB DDR3-1600 | 9TB magnetic storage | Potential fire threat

 

HTPC:

i7-4790 | GTX1650 | Dell Sadness | 12GB DDR3-1600 | Samsung 860 250GB | 1TB magnetic storage | James Loudspeaker SPL3 x2 | Corsair SF450

 

 

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Would a 1660 Ti be advised?  I am seeing new laptops about to come out (which I need) with these cards, and they are easily within my budget.  Example: Helios 300 with 1660 Ti around $1,200 I believe.

 

Any content creators or those that use Twinmotion, Unreal Engine, Lumion think this GPU will be more than enough?

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