Why does my old laptop out perform my new one?

[Vaughn10]

I just bought a new expensive laptop thinking it will reduce lag on bigger files. The new one is the MSI Titan 18, i9-14900HX, 32BG RAM, 2TB SSD and a RTX 4080 graphics card, I'm not worried about price if it will cut down on lag time. My old laptop is almost 5 years old and is a Acer Nitro 5 i7-10750H, 16GB RAM and a GTX 1650 Ti graphics card. In a 3D view the old one out performs the new one and to me this makes no sense at all. On large files is where the difference is. On smaller files both laptops are quick.

 

On large files, moving a window up or down in 3D takes the old laptop 4.5 seconds to complete while the new one is at 6.5 seconds. When dragging a material region up or down both laptops are at 10 seconds to load. How can this happen? The MSI is significantly more powerful than the Acer. 

 

Moving things in plan view the new laptop is slightly faster than the old one. Also opening a 3D camera is slightly quicker on the new one but moving things in 3D are slower. In 2D elevation views the old laptop has the same times as moving things in 3D. While the new laptop cuts the time down in half compared to being in a 3D view. Even though things are quicker in plan view and 2D elevations I was expecting it to be a lot better in 3D. I do a lot of work in 3D so was hoping it would be better. I could change how I work but I'd rather not.

 

I've went back to the computer store and they couldn't make sense of it either. I will call the Chief Architect customer service line tomorrow. 

 

If anyone has any idea as to why it's slower in 3D please let me know! The file is to large to attach, I understand with a large file there will be lag but it's odd that my old one is faster in 3D than the new one. 

[Garybills]

I have a 2 year old MSI Stealth with RTX 3070 and it seems like I had a similar issue when I got it. I can’t remember for sure, but I think Chief wasn’t using the RTX 3070 and there was a setting to change it. I’m not at my computer now but maybe someone else knows. 

[richoffan]

Go to preferences, render - check the video card status and make sure the laptop is using the Nvidia GPU. Go to device manager, (just type in search), Display adapters and right click the video card - make sure its functioning properly. Check for driver updates (same location)

[Renerabbitt]

9 hours ago, Vaughn10 said:

I just bought a new expensive laptop thinking it will reduce lag on bigger files. The new one is the MSI Titan 18, i9-14900HX, 32BG RAM, 2TB SSD and a RTX 4080 graphics card, I'm not worried about price if it will cut down on lag time. My old laptop is almost 5 years old and is a Acer Nitro 5 i7-10750H, 16GB RAM and a GTX 1650 Ti graphics card. In a 3D view the old one out performs the new one and to me this makes no sense at all. On large files is where the difference is. On smaller files both laptops are quick.

 

On large files, moving a window up or down in 3D takes the old laptop 4.5 seconds to complete while the new one is at 6.5 seconds. When dragging a material region up or down both laptops are at 10 seconds to load. How can this happen? The MSI is significantly more powerful than the Acer. 

 

Moving things in plan view the new laptop is slightly faster than the old one. Also opening a 3D camera is slightly quicker on the new one but moving things in 3D are slower. In 2D elevation views the old laptop has the same times as moving things in 3D. While the new laptop cuts the time down in half compared to being in a 3D view. Even though things are quicker in plan view and 2D elevations I was expecting it to be a lot better in 3D. I do a lot of work in 3D so was hoping it would be better. I could change how I work but I'd rather not.

 

I've went back to the computer store and they couldn't make sense of it either. I will call the Chief Architect customer service line tomorrow. 

 

If anyone has any idea as to why it's slower in 3D please let me know! The file is to large to attach, I understand with a large file there will be lag but it's odd that my old one is faster in 3D than the new one. 

Is this truly apples to apples? also what drive are you running on the old one, one hard drive on the new one?
are all rendering settings the same on both machines for all views?
what do you mean by large files? whats the poly count?
are you comparing vector views or raster views?