I am curious about thermals and fan noise during long sessions. I suspicious about using a Laptop.
Also looking forward to user experiences rather than endless benchmarks. It also includes noise levels of the computer, but also performance of types of scenes, materials etc. Therefore I use my own benchmark as I work with lots of reflective and transparent objects in different combinations.
Honestly
I observed common slowdowns on M1 Ultra triggered by high poly counts/large memory simulations/Large tex files.
It is optimized only for Cinebench 2024 not for Redshift's current state. They will implement M3 HW RT soon I supposed.
I understand you completely. I said it before, the line between laptop and desktop is very small with Apples MX chips but to choose a laptop for rending tasks??? It feels odd. My 7 sec animations are rendered out in 1-2h in absolute silence on a M1 Pro. That is even odder but what a bliss. However, I do too little render to be used as a guidance for other but I also asked myself the same question- can MX laptop be used as a heavy duty compute machine? There is a minor increase in the temperature and no noticeable fan noise during render. Let the engineers answer this question.
We have experienced a issues with 16 inch M1 Max ( Davinci Resolve/Compositing machine ) which are TB Ports are overheated during time, started to not work as it has to be, fan noise is getting higher and higher day to day, Screen outputs started to blinked random again and again ext.
The new M2 I bought in September I kept in clam shell mode the whole time. I did my initial tests and it was fine. Yes doing a long render, for my workflow, (1-5 hours) the fans came on but were nowhere near like my old Intel MacBook Pro was. For everything else they never turned on. I suspect the M3 will be similar but much faster.
Thanks for your feedback
Currently M1 Ultra can handle over 40 million polygons for a single mesh. I do not have any idea how will it becomes for all subtools or HD Goemetry side. My concern is UV Unwraping/Texture Painting/Masking Tools all of them relies on cpu count/power. Maybe M1 Ultra not fast as M3 Max but has got 4 more cores. I feel like M3 Studio variants will arrive than expected timeline but on the other hand M3 Max is tempting right now hard to choose one of them...Thanks for your feedback
ZBrush is my oldest and most comfortable modeling/texturing software, I use it for anything I need on 3D
I render out scenes from a PC, I am not using M1 Ultra as a render device.
For Redshift Lookdev and shading process it is ok now for working long hours on M1 Ultra. I don not use Houdini, I am an old manfor start to learning it
I am asking all these quesntions because of I can not give a decide clearly for buying an M3 Max Laptop or waiting for M3 Ultra. I can not afford both of these machines at same time, I had to choose one of them
good idea
I am going to check it, but it can be done only selected countries I guess. Even in europe it could be quite complicated.good idea
I understand. No problem at all. I’ll keep you posted. To be honest with you, I was in a similar situation. When I bought my M2, I was intending to then buy the M3 Ultra Studio, loaded. Then the new MacBooks dropped immediately after and I was like wtf. So now, after swapping machines, this will cover me for my needs. I won’t be buying a studio. The M2 Max was near perfect for what I was doing, so I am fairly confident that the extra resources and raytracing will really put this machine in a sweet spot for me. My rendering is not for animation, just still frames and perhaps turn tables. So yea, that is certainly different if I was rendering motion graphics or actual production animation. I can say this though, one of my personal projects was a likeness of Gerard Butler from 300. It’s pushing 100 udims in Maya, all 4k, with some 8K vface textures for the portrait, fully groomed with fuzz on the cape. Typically on my old machine it would take 10 minutes to reach first pixel. On the M2 Max it was a fraction of that, like under 3 minutes if I remember correctly, and the render was faster. This was with Arnold in Maya. No gpu rendering. So again, for what I’m doing, I think I’ve got desktop class performance, and then some, in a notebook. If I was rendering animated shorts on the regular, then yes, probably I would opt for a Studio. For pure asset creation, though, I suspect these machines are beasts. All the reviews I see online don’t help. People running bench marks of a blender scene. That’s the most I can see for 3D. But it’s pretty much useless for me when comparing the sort of 3D work I do. Omg this chip render the classroom 1 minute faster! You know as a professional that there is so much more in our work where we can save time. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, the groom on that cape has like a half a million to a million fibres, I can spin the viewport much smoother than my older workstation. It’s stuff like that, that adds up in the long run.Thanks for your feedback
ZBrush is my oldest and most comfortable modeling/texturing software, I use it for anything I need on 3D
I render out scenes from a PC, I am not using M1 Ultra as a render device.
For Redshift Lookdev and shading process it is ok now for working long hours on M1 Ultra. I don not use Houdini, I am an old manfor start to learning it
I am asking all these quesntions because of I can not give a decide clearly for buying an M3 Max Laptop or waiting for M3 Ultra. I can not afford both of these machines at same time, I had to choose one of them
Oh wow! Thanks for this. I thought we only had 15 days!
yes 14 days period is valid, also mention about the date 6 january 2024 but not clear which products could be on this trade. Had talk with sales tomorrow...
cool I can not imagine 32 core M3 Ultra on Arnold, wish to work that way. It will be great for me using Arnold again. I have use Arnold for a long time
even use it quite much at first release before Autodesk. It was an extension for Maya shader system as I remember.
Yes I have been used it for some test, it is fast and reliable. Some scenes are faster than Redshift CPU and very rare but but even faster than Redshift however this is not a general rule you can accept for all. I guess depends on your workflow. It will be great on upcoming M3 Ultra with 32 cores maybe higher cores counts with M3 Mac Pro. Finally Arnold lovers could use it on Macs. 50 USD per mount or 400 USD for a year
Reasonable price V-Ray has got a little bit higher price tag.
Yes I have been used it for some test, it is fast and reliable. Some scenes are faster than Redshift CPU and very rare but but even faster than Redshift however this is not a general rule you can accept for all. I guess depends on your workflow. It will be great on upcoming M3 Ultra with 32 cores maybe higher cores counts with M3 Mac Pro. Finally Arnold lovers could use it on Macs. 50 USD per mount or 400 USD for a year
Agreed with you by all these subjects. You can download Arnold Trail from Autodesk with an account and try it first place. Lower CPU counts could be an issue, I never really on Arnolds GPU render actually it can be use only with NVidia GPU and available on PCs. Before subscribe to Arnold you have chance to compare it with Redshift.