How big is Ray-tracing? Worth it to buy a pc next to the Imac (This one..?)

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How big is Ray-tracing? Worth it to buy a pc next to the Imac?

I know: not an easy answer possible.

And offcourse I did a search for examples.. but can not “always” feel the big difference ..

Doing renders with Sketchup and Twinmotion now for our small-business, with good results I think, semi-pro, but want to level up. Doing mostly outside architecture/garden/but also inside designs)

The Imac is doing it with an acceptable speed, but don’t know exact what I am missing?

Actually I am a bit in a hurry to buy a pc now, so I can render my current project with it. (Keep the rest of my work on the Imac’s)

Want to spend now a (2nd hand) +_1900 euro for a : Ryzen 7 5800, 3080 gpu, 32Gb, 1tb Ssd ?

Any extra advise for that?

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Hello ,

Thank you for posting your question in the community and hope other users would be able to provide feedback but I recommend posting this on the Facebook group for more of an audience.

Here is the link where you post in the Facebook community:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/twinmotion.community/

If you search in the group some have done some benchmark tests that could help you decision process. Here is the post I was referencing:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/twinmotion.community/permalink/957353471822614/

You should reference our high-end requirements here for PC or Mac and look at the benchmarks for the CPU and GPU:

https://twinmotionhelp.epicgames.com/s/article/Twinmotion-System-Requirements

Here are the Path Tracer requirements:

https://twinmotionhelp.epicgames.com/s/article/Path-Tracer-Requirements

From a use perspective the Mac version does not support VR, and at this time the 3D Connexion, and Path Tracing are not compatible with Twinmotion for Macs. Getting a PC will allow you to use all the features and those machines can be upgraded more easily, especially when it comes to the RAM and GPU which are the 2 most important hardware elements after the CPU and hard-drive. Having a Mac and a PC is a great solution as this gives you flexibility to render on the PC and keep working on your Mac while it processes.

Hope this helps.

Kind regards,

Vincent B.