After over six months with less exposure to computers than usually, I decided to build a new powerful computer for GPU rendering.

My new computer has:

Chassis: SilverStone Fortress FT05

Power Supply: Seasonic 550W Focus+ Platinum

Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

Motherboard: ASUS X470 Pro Prime

RAM: 16 GB Kingston 3200 MHz DDR4

SSD: Samsung 1TB 970 EVO Plus M.2 PCIe NVMe

HDD: Western Digital Red 6TB

GPU: ASUS Geforce RTX 2060 Super

OS: Windows 10 Professional

I think that the new computer is well suited to GPU rendering, and the cost of the machine was well below 2000€. Some parts, like the case, were second-hand, which helped to keep the cost reasonable.

Below is a test render done with my new computer. I think that the system feels very responsive, and rendering the below image took just a couple of hours, instead of one to two days, which was usual with my previous GPU rendering machine.

Test render done with Octane Render and Daz Studio. Photos taken with Samsung NX1 camera.