Graphics Card For Animation

[ArduinoBen]

Hello Guys,

I have been doing Blender 3D animation for a while now and my Gen 2 Thinkpad X1 Carbon is starting to be not nearly powerful enough for what I am doing.  I think for my birthday in November I might build a more powerful PC for my animation and some light gaming (CS:GO), I'm thinking about spending around $500.  For the graphics card, I've been considering a GTX 1050TI or just a plain 1050, a bit like this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NBHXR8A/ref=twister_B01N2QQH3J?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Can someone recommend me a good 1050Ti please?  Also, going for factory superclocked Graphics Cards are a waste of money, right?

 

Also, In my laptop I have a i7-4550U with Intel HD Graphics 5000   http://ark.intel.com/products/75112

How much of a rendering improvement should I expect with a 1050Ti compared to my current CPU/GPU, will my projects' render times be one twentieth of what they are now, or better?

 

Thanks for any help.   

[Guest]

Yes, factory OC is a waste of money

Any cheap 1050 Ti would do

A huge increase considering a HD 5000 sucks at everything except web browsing

[domandric034]

25 minutes ago, ArduinoBen said:

Hello Guys,

I have been doing Blender 3D animation for a while now and my Gen 2 Thinkpad X1 Carbon is starting to be not nearly powerful enough for what I am doing.  I think for my birthday in November I might build a more powerful PC for my animation and some light gaming (CS:GO), I'm thinking about spending around $500.  For the graphics card, I've been considering a GTX 1050TI or just a plain 1050, a bit like this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NBHXR8A/ref=twister_B01N2QQH3J?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Can someone recommend me a good 1050Ti please?  Also, going for factory superclocked Graphics Cards are a waste of money, right?

 

Also, In my laptop I have a i7-4550U with Intel HD Graphics 5000   http://ark.intel.com/products/75112

How much of a rendering improvement should I expect with a 1050Ti compared to my current CPU/GPU, will my projects' render times be one twentieth of what they are now, or better?

 

Thanks for any help.   

Rather consider AMD Radeon RX 5** or 4** for GPU and get Ryzen for rendering

Ryzen has much more cores and larger l3, l2, l1 cache than Intel and it is better for rendering.

[Brooksie359]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/kwsjkT something like this then 

[ArduinoBen]

Thanks for all your help guys!

 

 

:-)

[ArduinoBen]

14 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/kwsjkT something like this then 

Yes, that'd be great.  Wonder how many changes I'd need to make to that myself.....  

[domandric034]

2 minutes ago, ArduinoBen said:

Thanks for all your help guys!

 

 

:-)

Np 

Sell your old laptop (If you can) and get this for rendering : https://pcpartpicker.com/list/wDLfgL