Laptop recommendation for real-time mocap stream → MetaHuman/custom character → Chaos Cloth

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Hi everyone,

I’m trying to choose a laptop( I need the prortability) for a specific Unreal Engine workflow and I’d really appreciate advice .

My main pipeline is:

Rokoko motion capture (real-time streaming) → Unreal Engine 5 → metahuman (or lighter custom character) animation → Chaos Cloth simulation.

Since I will conduct real time experiments (someone is moving–> avatar is animated with moving costumes) I need smooth, fast and responsive cloth simulation. I wont be using any complex scenes but I might need to add VR in the future.

I want to ask the following:

  1. Do I need an RTX 5080 (16 GB) or an RTX 5070Ti (12 gb) will work just as fine?

  2. Do I need 64 GB RAM or is 32 GB sufficient? ( I will try to keep scene and avatar as light as possilbe)

  3. will i7 be a problem, shall i look only for i9?

I undesrtand that ideally I need everything on maximun, but since budget is expanding, is there any combination of specs for this pipeline that will save me some money?

Any comment will be helpful!

Thanks!