Advice On Smallest Tower PC for Fast Vray Rendering - TV Show Freelancer Moves Office Every New Show

[artdepartment3454]

Hi! I need to move my office every few months and I'm not very strong. But I also need a powerful workstation (i.e. not a laptop) for Vray for SketchUp and Blender, both for doing concept art. We need to work very fast and we need the renderings to look good, but they don't need to be exactly photorealistic. I'm going back and forth between a suggested build on CG Director with an Nvidia RTX 4080 and Fractal Design Define R5 case vs. a much smaller Corsair One i300 Prebuilt with an Nvidia RTX 3080.

Would anyone be able to tell me how much of a sacrifice in performance I'd be making if I downgrade from the RTX 4080 to the RTX 3080 in a 3D modeling/rendering set up? Thank you!

CG Director Build: https://www.cgdirector.com/pc-builder/?=6NGXM

Corsair Prebuilt: https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categ...qI4i0c1EMYSv4UqZ0dtULGgFLX0zlH9BoCdB0QAvD_BwE

 

[Jerry James]

Corsair Prebuilt: https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categ...qI4i0c1EMYSv4UqZ0dtULGgFLX0zlH9BoCdB0QAvD_BwE

The Corsair One suffers from thermal issues, and I won't really trust it to handle professional workloads, tbh. Here's a review from LTT that goes over some benches and thermals -

Some forum threads - https://forum.corsair.com/forums/topic/174316-i’ve-been-the-owner-of-the-a200-pro-for-~9-hours/

If you want a compact system, your best bet would be to build a compact M-ATX or Mini-ITX PC. Although the latter's size is quite a bit smaller, it's also more complicated to build. I'd recommend a relatively compact mid-tower.

But in case you do want to attempt a Mini-ITX build without compromising performance/thermals, watch as many tutorial videos as possible for a few M-ITX cases and SFF (Small Form Factor) PCs.

Would anyone be able to tell me how much of a sacrifice in performance I'd be making if I downgrade from the RTX 4080 to the RTX 3080 in a 3D modeling/rendering set up?

For mostly viewport/active work, there won't be too much of a difference between these two GPUs. You'll see a significant uptick in speed when GPU rendering, though.