Re: Two points

On 12/2/24 6:25 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 08:01:15 -0500, -hh wrote:
 

So if you're going to posture that you need moar power, what's the
content that's allegedly your stressor?

 3D rendering and video encoding.
 I have had renders of animations go on for days. Not something you would
entrust to a notebook.

What's the longest 3D render you've had within the past, oh ~3 years? Reason is that I can recall doing some 3D FEA work back in 2002 and the best PC workstations we could get would hit the wall & crash at 4 days. Ended up dropping a few million for a mini cluster for that project.
Similarly, for video, there's many different formats; I've not done much 4K or 6K yet (just got the camera gear) but Blackmagic's RAW benchmark says to expect 4K BRAW 8:1 to render at ~600 fps w/Metal, which means that an hour of p25 should take <3 minutes to render.  That's not even long enough to make a good cup of coffee.
-hh