Renderotica

I recently purchased an Alienware m16 laptop by Dell for a little under 3K. The Processor is a 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900HX 2.20 GHz It has 16.0 GB (15.7 GB usable) of RAM. The single video card is an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU with 6GB. It has a 1GB Solid state hard drive. It will render a picture in DAZ 4.22 such as this Image: Morning Dew TFR in 2 minutes or less. Close ups such as this one: Morning Dew ACU in about five minutes. Some really detailed renders with more light play (reflective surfaces etc) can take up to seven minutes. Compared to the 45 minutes I spend posing the models for a single shot, and the 15 minutes I spend on each photo in Adobe Light Room and Adobe Photoshop, I can deal with those render times.  
I am working on animating some of the scenes in my upcoming serial; Shameless Plug and I recently rendered a set of 30 images to that effect on my laptop with the purpose of making a GIF. DAZ required approximately 26 minutes to render all 30 QHD* images and write them directly to Disk. All of that said, I am hoping to buy another desktop system, one day, and have it dedicated to design. I hope this helps.

* I have updated this statement.  After posting this, I went back into DAZ this morning and checked my render settings for that sequence,  it is set to Quad High Def (QHD) not Ultra High Def.  I then set DAZ ro UHD and Rendered a few close ups of my new girl, Dhalia (Gen 8.1 series), for the MAD Series and in UHD rendering a close up took more like 10 - 12 minutes.  A render that was not a close up took between 4 and 9 minutes.  That's still not bad IMHO.

Edited by user Thursday, February 8, 2024 10:25:30 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Render times vs. settings were not divulged correctly.