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EUROCOM // RX18 · 3D & VFX
Laptop for Blender, Maya, Houdini, and Cinema 4D rendering.
We benchmarked the Raptor X18 across the workloads that pay 3D artists: Blender Open Data, the full SPEC Blender suite, and the OPTIX-accelerated pipeline that turns the RTX 5090 Laptop into a portable render node. The headline number: an 8,114 Blender Open Data score and a 4.27× SPEC ratio on the Classroom scene.
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