Advice: new Computer for Lumion, Sketchup, CAD

[errol]

Hi Guys!

At the moment I'm thinking about buying the following components for my new computer. I mainly aim to get a good

• Lumion experience,
• also work with SketchUp,
• CAD and
• Photoshop a lot.
• Would love to get into Blender as well eventually...

My main concern is what would make more sense, AMD vs. Intel

1 ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB, M.2 (ASX8200PNP-1TT-C)
1 Intel Core i7-10700K, 8C/16T, 3.80-5.10GHz, boxed ohne Kühler (BX8070110700K)
1 G.Skill Trident Z RGB DIMM Kit 64GB, DDR4-3200, CL16-18-18-38 (F4-3200C16Q-64GTZR)
1 MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio, 11GB GDDR6, HDMI, 3x DP, USB-C (V371-026R)
1 MSI MEG Z490 Unify (7C71-009R)
1 Scythe Fuma 2 (SCFM-2000)
1 Fractal Design Define S2 Black, schallgedämmt, Glasfenster (FD-CA-DEF-S2-BK-TGL)
1 Enermax Revolution D.F. 850W ATX 2.4 (ERF850EWT)

for ~ 2430,- €

Since the system requirements on the Lumin Website are pretty straightforward, I would have opted for the Intel. Also, since from what I understood reading your hardware guides, most CAD programs need single core performance.

Uness I'm totally mistaken and you see something, that for instance would favor an AMD system like the following:

• AMD R9 3950x
• x570 board
• NVME SSD with PCIe4.0
• DDR4-3600 mhz

This is my current selection, although I do want to wait a few more days / weeks to see how the new 3000gen Nvidia will perform / what it will cost

Thanks for your thoughts and cheers,
M.

 

[Jerry James]

Programs like Blender would benefit from having more cores, but you'll lose a bit of single-core snappiness to gain those extra cores. But since the recommendation for a high-end system for Lumion is still lower than what the 3950X/3900X gets, I'd lean towards going with a 3900X if you want to consider Blender performance right now. But if you won't need to use much of it immediately, I'd go with the Intel 10700K build you picked.

As for the build itself, I don't see any glaring issues as such. Check for 3600MHz kits with similar timings in your region. I can usually find a couple priced around the same (or just a smidge higher) as a 3200 in mine, so it's good to check.

 

[errol]

Thanks for your reply Jerry!

What did you mean with "Lumion is still lower than what the 3950x gets"? In the given Lumion benchmark the 3950x/3900x lies way behind the i7/i9?

As for the ram, a 3600, CL16-19-19-39 is 85,- € more, a 3600, CL16-16-16-36 is 235,- € more - is that worth it in your opinion?

 

[Jerry James]

Thanks for your reply Jerry!

What did you mean with "Lumion is still lower than what the 3950x gets"? In the given Lumion benchmark the 3950x/3900x lies way behind the i7/i9?

As for the ram, a 3600, CL16-19-19-39 is 85,- € more, a 3600, CL16-16-16-36 is 235,- € more - is that worth it in your opinion?

I meant, the Lumion website lists a CPU score of 2500 as a recommendation for a ‘high-end PC’. In my books, I’d say anything past that number will be a good experience.

For example, the 3800X has a score of 2745.
But yeah, if you want the best performance here, Intel’s definitely the way to go. But you trade some cores to gain that performance

As for the RAM, nah. I wouldn’t go an extra 85 to go 3600. The kit you chose is fine then

 

[errol]

thank you very much for your advice and help !

 

[pageestrada]

What do you mean by "Lumion is always lower than the 3950x gets"? In the given Lumion benchmark, the 3950x / 3900x is far behind the i7 / i9?

As for the Aries, a 3600, CL16-19-19-39 costs € 85 more, a 3600, CL16-16-16-36 € 235 more - in your opinion, is it worth it?

 

[Jerry James]

What do you mean by "Lumion is always lower than the 3950x gets"? In the given Lumion benchmark, the 3950x / 3900x is far behind the i7 / i9?

Yep, precisely. Not very far behind, but yeah Lumion likes single-core speeds more. However, now the new Ryzen processors outpace even Intel.

As for the Aries, a 3600, CL16-19-19-39 costs € 85 more, a 3600, CL16-16-16-36 € 235 more - in your opinion, is it worth it?

Nope, not at all. Go for a 3600 CL18 kit if that's not at too much of a premium.