Hi
We are considering building a workstation for zbrush artist in our small studio. Mostly, we work on 1080p resolution movies and series.
Will quadro 400 be sufficient? How much ram I should get?
Thanks
ZBRush doesn’t rely on your graphics card, its all coming from the cpu. Also it is currently only a 32bit application so it is limited to how much RAM it can use. Version 5 should be 64bit so you should be able to utilise more ram at that point.
Thanks for reply
So, we should invest in i5, 8GB RAM and a moderate GPU?
Im curious how big studios make crazy-detailed zbrush medel, if it limited to 4GB of ram.
An i5 should do fairly well but if you have the budget get the most powerful CPU you can. Zbrush has multi-thread support.
The other main component that will help is a SSD which will improve responsiveness whenever ZB wants to acces the drive on which it is installed.
Like it was stated, ZB5 will be 64bit but until then you need not dedicate more than 4GB RAM to this app.