Hardware Recommendations

[LTA,A]

I'm looking to have a computer built for me and was wondering what is best to spend my money on. I feel like Revit utilizes CPU more so than GPU and therefore believe I should go for the fastest processor, but is this true? What about cores/threads? Is a faster quad-core better than a slower hex-core? I don't know all that much about hardware, so try and keep responses in layman's terms! The projects I work on are fairly small in scale (I'm a mostly residential Architect and file sizes rarely exceed 60MB) and currently have no problems modeling with a Surface Pro 4, but rendering on this machine is almost pointless. I'd like to build a desktop that handles rendering with vray for revit really well.

Thank you in advance

[Ana Lyubenova]

Hi LTA,

We avoid recommending specific hardware, as rendering time depends on scene size and complexity as well.
You can measure your machine's performance using the V-Ray Benchmark free app. More info can be found here: https://www.chaosgroup.com/vray/benchmark
And you can compare with other user's results which can be found here: https://benchmark.chaosgroup.com/cpu

Regards,
Ana

[LTA,A]

Thank you Ana, I downloaded it and ran it... my computer is HORRID!