purcase july 2016

Development Asset Creation Photogrammetry
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Hi all.

I am considering purchase of a for doing visualisation, simulation, rendering and gamedev work.
I plan to spend roughly 3500USD on it.
The software I will be using is:
Houdini, Maya, City Engine, Unreal Engine…
I see a few Gamer laptops with a lot of memory (64GB) and Graphic cards with 4 GB Grafix cards. For the same price I can get a Gamer card with double the amount of Video memory. Or this is a mistake?

My questions are.

  1. Does UNREAL ever use 64 GB ram? Or is there a limit to what UNREAL or OS is ever going to use?

  2. What are the differences between Gamer and Profesional Grafic cards? Should I go for a PRO card or is Gamer card “just as good”?

I found a with 64 GB ram and 4GB Grafix card for under 3500 USD
**Acer Predator G9-791 17,3" FHD -Demo
GeForce GTX980M,Core i7-6700HQ,64GB RAM,512GB PCIe SSD,2TB HDD,DVD±RW,Win10 Home
**

Should I purchase this or is this no good for FX work?

Thank you in advance…

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The most RAM I’ve had UE4 regularly use is up to 10Gb, and that is with our largest map loaded into memory. If I were you, I’d try to shoot for something a little bit higher than a 980M, like a 980 when spending $3500 on a laptop.

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As @Jamendxman3 said it’s unlikely that Unreal will make use of 64 GB RAM. But if you are planning to do some high quality photogrammetry you should go for it.

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if memory serves you get diminishing returns with more then 32GB, or something like that;).