jgriesshaber Posted December 11 Share Posted December 11 I currently have an Alienware R15 with Ryzen 9 7900x and Radeon RX 7900XT with 32GB DDR5, but was wondering if anyone uses the Mac version of x16 and uses the Physical Ray Tracing and uses the newer machines. I am temped to sell my Gaming Laptop which is an Intel i7 11th Gen with RTX 3050 and maybe get the Mini as a backup/when I travel... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_Gia Posted December 12 Share Posted December 12 20 hours ago, jgriesshaber said: Mac version of x16 I use an M3 pro Macbook pro with X16. Although I am able to do PBR (RTRT) it takes about a minute to render a view that takes the same view less than 3 seconds to render on an RTX 4060 laptop. Although the MacBook is a little snappier for creating and orbiting around standard render 3D models. I personally still find MacOS better than Windows 11 and the laptop experience is still clunky on Windows pc’s. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve-C Posted December 12 Share Posted December 12 I just got the Mac Mini M4 Pro yesterday. I was optimistic that it might have enough power to be my main rig, it's close but I will likely trade it in on the M4 Ultra Mac Studio next year. The only reason I bought it was because my video card (4070Ti) crashed in my Windows machine. With that said, PRT image times have been around a minute like Michael said, but I almost never use that feature. I too prefer Mas OS to Windows. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadian Posted December 12 Share Posted December 12 +1 for mac over windows. Have been using an M2 Macbook Pro for about 6 months now and took a while to adjust to different system. Not perfect but better than Windows. Old windows desktop gathering in the corner never to be resurrected as I originally thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
designergy Posted December 18 Share Posted December 18 I just got the maxed out MBP M4 max. Came from the M1. It’s fast. Very little lag. That being said the M1 Max was pretty snappy too. I do lots of 3-D renders and it chews through them in about half the time and the extra ram seems to prevent crashes on the higher frame count walkthroughs. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve-C Posted December 19 Share Posted December 19 After working with the Mac Mini for a couple of days I sent it back. As much as I love the Mac OS, their renders don't even come close to a decent windows machine with dedicated graphics. I suppose the M4 Ultra might come close when it is released next year, but I can't see spending $5k for a computer that may come close to the renders I get from a Windows system half the cost (or less). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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