Greetings guys, i work with 3D software professionally (Architecture Visualization) i want to start learning UE5 and so I’m going to update my PC that’s kinda outdated.
Im in double between this 2 builds, what would u recommend? Basically the difference is between a better CPU or a better GPU.
https://pt.pcpartpicker.com/list/Q2rwv3
https://pt.pcpartpicker.com/list/VMvNwc
i pretend to upgrade my motherboard and RAM later, so i can save some money for now.
Thanks in advance
Hi Gabiru,
I’d go with the better GPU, doubly so for Archvis. I can’t think of any instance I was CPU-bound. (Lots of physics or AI logic could cause high CPU usage?)
Also, the 4070ti just came out, so it could be worth a quick consideration.
I think you’ll find that 32GB of ram is still plenty.
yea 4070ti is here at 929€ thats almost 500€ down from the 4080…
sadly some people are trash talking on it and I’m consufed if its worth… but that would give me space to get a 5950x instead a 5900x CPU
I watched the Linus Tech tips vid on the 4070ti last night. Overall we’re in a bad spot as far as all GPU prices go. I guess my calculus would be how the % of price increase to a 4080 compares with the performance increase.
The fact that the 3090 was mindblowing, and now the 4070ti has comparable performance is nice though.
I guess another factor to consider is if you’re running 1440 or 4k monitors.
Looking forward to watching GamersNexus review vid for it…
thing is if i go to to a 4080 i cant get a 5950x CPU and i gotta downgrade to a 5900x due to my budget
so i was likely to pick a 5950x with a 4070ti.
other option was a 5950x with a 3080 but since 4070 has 2extra GB of vram i guess 3080 isn’t an option atm, am i right?
5900x : 12-Core 24-Thread 4.8GHZ 350$
5950x : 16-Core 32-Thread 4.9GHZ 650$
(Prices from US Amazon)
If you’re getting the CPU for just Unreal Engine, the only time you’ll make use of those extra cores is when you’re compiling shaders. (Compiled shaders get cached, so you usually only have to do this once) - CPU speed also helps with compiling the editor if your storage bandwidth is high enough. (Although I don’t imagine you’d need to compile the editor)
So, depending on if you do other CPU intensive stuff that is multi-threaded. (Rendering videos?) you may not see a big difference.
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3080: 10GB
3070ti: 8GB
Edit: 4070ti: 12GB
I don’t understand the question. The 3080 has 2 more GB plus better memory bandwidth
Big picture: Either card would be really good for UE dev.
you are talking about 3070TI but im talking about the 4070TI that has actually 12GB
i use rendering engines like corona and vray that uses CPUcores to render
Ah sorry,
I wonder if having extra video memory is like having extra RAM. Once you get to a certain point you’d never really use extra. (But on the other hand, I like the idea of authoring my own content that makes full use of available resources)
im even more confused now 
not rlly sure what build to get 
Haha, everything discussed here is at the high end, so really no matter what GPU or CPU you go with I think you’ll have a good experience. Like I said before, I’d favor GPU over CPU. (It’s easy to minimize a window and wait for CPU to finish rendering something, but not the case with realtime things on GPU)
i might go for the 5950x with 4070TI then, i know its not the better GPU out there but its a 480€ difference between the 4080. Which would allow me to build inside the initial budget
I would go with the 5900x and 4070Ti, I honestly doubt you will notice the difference between those CPUs with all tasks that may utilize them. And trust me I understand that desire to want to have the best version of a product just to be able to say I own it lol (check out my PCpartpicker builds: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/DmpG3C). And then I would spend the extra money to get faster RAM. 3000MHz is ok but having faster RAM would help your CPU and GPU perform even better.
Hi! I would also choose the 5900x and 4070Ti