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  • 3d heavy modeling

    Depending on the program of choice to go with AMD over NVIDIA will heavily impact your performance as cuda is better optimized than rocm. For me rocking rtx3060 it was hit or miss. It mostly depends on the distro if they choose to package the NVIDIA drivers out of the box. Some distros value freedom over usability. Right now I am daily driving bazzite and I am happy with it. For drivers its self I didn’t notice any major issues.

    From your convoluted explanation I assume you have one PC already and you want to upgrade. I would just get a new one for work stuff and old one set up as “light work” as you put it or hook up to the TVs











  • For blender nvidia gpu is a the best for cycles as it has optiX support.

    If she does ONLY modeling and uses eevee renders without viewport previews then integrated graphics could work.

    If she wants viewport preview then dedicated GPU is a must. IDK how fares AMD gpu in blender as I didn’t have one for years.

    Some gaming laptops with dedicated GPUs need external kernel modules just to work if they even have one.

    My best bet would be to go for old gaming laptop.

    My second best bet would be to go for system76 as they have some gaming laptops