Hello do people still combine multiple NVIDIA cards together? Can people combine two 3060’s in one PC and have UE5 rendering benefits from the two graphics cards?
I ask because the 3060’s are cheaper than the 3090 and 4090’s.
Only the 3090 supports sli from the last gen, so no it’s not possible.
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Hello, 3D Raven. Would a Thread Ripper and a 3090 be a good combination for UE5 machine doing Development work with 4K UDIM textures on a ton on 3D models?
Is there a doc with a preferred UE5 machine set up?
If anything I’d invest in a 3090 ti. The base 3090 models had ram on both sides of the PCB which would lead to memory overheating. 3090 ti has it on the top of the board so it doesn’t get as much heat from the GPU.
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Thank you I will look for a 3090 ti. Any advice for the CPU and amount of RAM?
A Thread ripper will have more than enough cores to handle unreal. Though I’m not sure about their peak clock speeds.
You might want to opt for slightly lower core counts with better speeds as unreal will not be using all cores at all times (I have a 5950x 32 threads and only time I saw full utilization was compiling unreal from source & that was only during parts of the process).
CPU probably depends on other workloads. If you do lots of cpu rendering then more cores = better but just for game dev you will see more benefit from higher clocks speeds on a daily basis.
Ram = the more the better. I opted for 64 gigs in my rig (ddr4). If you are making a new PC then I would look into ddr5 and check if the prices are reasonable their speeds are considerably faster then last gen.
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Thank you, I will look for a Thread Ripper, 64 gigs of DDR5 and 3090 Ti. May I ask if you have seen a good ‘prebuilt’ rig with these types of components? Or do you build the rig yourself?
I built my own rig from separately bought parts, no prebuilt.
It can be a little stressful but you can cut costs considerably.
If I would consider any prebuilt then maybe from a company that makes graphics stations for artists / designers. definitely not a prebuild gamer rig. Make sure parts are tested.
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Understood, thank you.
Sorry, forgot to ask, what suggestion would you have for a ThreadRipper? Do I need a 32 thread CPU for UE5 dev work?
I have a 5950x 16 physical cores 32 threads. It’s more than enough for unreal.
You can multitask no problems (open photoshop + visual studio + maya in my case).
My only bottleneck is my gpu at the moment due to store shortages. (might get a 7900xtx if they come to Europe)
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Thank you for all your advice.