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Accord­ing to var­i­ous sources, the num­ber of design-relat­ed vacan­cies has grown by an aver­age of 20% over the past 10 years. This is log­i­cal, because there are more and more com­pa­nies that put the visu­al com­po­nent in the first place. It’s not for noth­ing that they say: they are greet­ed by clothes… If you want to mas­ter this dif­fi­cult but inter­est­ing pro­fes­sion, then you need a fast and pow­er­ful lap­top.

Design­er lap­tops always have spe­cial require­ments. Here are just the main ones.

• Pow­er­ful iron. Oth­er­wise, you will not be able to com­fort­ably work with heavy soft­ware.
• Large HDD. Because the source files take up a lot of space.
• Screen with per­fect col­or repro­duc­tion. You need to see the col­or as it real­ly is.

We’ve com­piled a list of the best graph­ics lap­tops 2020 for archi­tects, game design­ers, ani­ma­tors, inte­ri­or design­ers, and more.

DELL Precision 7740

Price: 2200$.

If you don’t both­er, then choos­ing a lap­top for a web design­er in 2020 is very sim­ple. In the pre­mi­um seg­ment, there are a huge num­ber of mod­els that are very sim­i­lar to each oth­er in terms of char­ac­ter­is­tics. We chose the DELL Pre­ci­sion 7740 for a good bal­ance of price and fea­tures.

The video card is one of the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the NVIDIA Quadro RTX fam­i­ly. The user can choose from one of two mod­els: RTX 3000 or RTX 4000. The old­er mod­i­fi­ca­tion will be 20% more pro­duc­tive in terms of aver­age per­for­mance, how­ev­er, such a set­up will also cost more. It is also pos­si­ble to switch to the video core built into the proces­sor. Here it is the Intel UHD Graph­ics 630 inte­grat­ed into the Intel Core i7 9850H. It is a proces­sor with 6 cores and 12 threads. Clock fre­quen­cy 2.6 GHz. Such hard­ware will allow you to com­fort­ably per­form any graph­ic tasks.

The amount of RAM is 16 GB. You can increase this val­ue up to 128 GB. By the way, the devel­op­er equipped the moth­er­board with 4 slots for RAM. This is a good stock for a fur­ther upgrade. The screen is also in order. The diag­o­nal is 17.3 inch­es. Res­o­lu­tion — Full HD. The matrix, of course, IPS. We can say that this is the min­i­mum for a mod­ern design­er. No TN and low res­o­lu­tion!

But even in such an expen­sive device there are dis­ad­van­tages. The lap­top holds a charge for only 4 hours. And dur­ing ren­der­ing, this val­ue will def­i­nite­ly fall, at least twice. So it is bet­ter to pick up anoth­er lap­top if the out­let is not always near­by. Also note that only one 512 GB SSD is installed as a dri­ve. Obvi­ous­ly there is not enough hard dri­ve to store fin­ished projects.

Apple MacBook Pro 16

Price: 1820$.

Yes, infre­quent­ly Apple prod­ucts are in the top, as the most afford­able. But when it comes to choos­ing the best lap­top for a graph­ic design­er in 2020, incred­i­bly expen­sive deals (more on that below) sur­face. Nev­er­the­less, it is fool­ish to deny the advan­tages of the Mac­Book: it is in many ways bet­ter than its com­peti­tors.

One of the best proces­sors on the mar­ket (Intel Core i9 9880H) will be avail­able to the user only in the old­er ver­sion of the mod­el. There are three in total. They dif­fer in the proces­sor, the amount of RAM and video mem­o­ry, as well as the capac­i­ty of the dri­ve. When order­ing from the Apple web­site, you will be able to cus­tomize the con­fig­u­ra­tion for almost all para­me­ters. So you can choose the right set­up and not over­pay. Return­ing to the proces­sor, it is worth say­ing that 8 cores and 16 threads is the max­i­mum that you can get in a mod­ern lap­top.

As always, Apple prod­ucts stand out for their excel­lent screen. Let’s start with non-stan­dard para­me­ters. It has a 16-inch screen with a res­o­lu­tion of 3072x1920. With this num­ber of pix­els, the pic­ture looks much more detailed when com­pared with the clas­sic Full HD. But that’s not all. In the Mac­Book Pro 16, you’ll find a cou­ple of design­er-friend­ly tech­nolo­gies. For exam­ple, the True Tone func­tion, which adjusts the col­or bal­ance to the envi­ron­men­tal con­di­tions. Or the Night Shift func­tion, which makes the pic­ture warmer at night.

But there are also dis­ad­van­tages. First­ly, due to the pro­duc­tive hard­ware, the bat­tery charge lev­el drops from 100% to 0% very quick­ly: in a cou­ple of hours under heavy load. Sec­ond­ly, for the same rea­son, there are prob­lems with cool­ing, which can hard­ly cope with pow­er­ful fill­ing. How­ev­er, this mod­el is bound to be at the top of the 2020 archi­tects and inte­ri­or design lap­tops with its amaz­ing screen capa­bil­i­ties and out­stand­ing proces­sor.

ACER CONCEPT D 7

Price: 2800$.

Design­er lap­tops are sim­i­lar to gam­ing lap­tops in many ways. They have incred­i­bly pro­duc­tive hard­ware. Often the dif­fer­ence lies only in the video card (this is either an RTX or RTX Quadro series). The CONCEPT D 7 mod­el is great for both con­tent cre­ators and gamers.

She has a top-end RTX 2080 chip installed on board. The proces­sor is only 6‑core: this is the Intel Core i7 9750H. How­ev­er, its com­put­ing pow­er will be enough for you to work with heavy design pro­grams. And 32 GB of RAM will con­tribute to this. You can store files on one of the two SSDs. The vol­ume of each is 1024 GB.

A dis­tinc­tive fea­ture of the device is a 15.6‑inch screen. It is based on an IPS matrix with a res­o­lu­tion of 3840x2160. Adobe RGB col­or gamut is 100% fac­to­ry cal­i­brat­ed. The col­or accu­ra­cy coef­fi­cient is at the lev­el of Delta E 2. With such indi­ca­tors, you can be sure that the pho­to on the screen will be as close to real­i­ty as pos­si­ble.

Despite the pow­er­ful stuff­ing, the gad­get turned out to be quite com­pact and light. The weight was 2.1 kg. And the dimen­sions are 358.5 x 255 x 17.9 mm. You can eas­i­ly car­ry the device with you all day long. You will not expe­ri­ence any dis­com­fort. One bat­tery charge lasts approx­i­mate­ly 8 hours. Agree, the lap­top has real­ly out­stand­ing char­ac­ter­is­tics. We think the ques­tion “which lap­top in 2020 is bet­ter for a design­er?” now becomes rhetor­i­cal.

Acer Predator Triton 900

Price: 3300$.

If the capa­bil­i­ties of pre­vi­ous mod­els are not enough for you, pay atten­tion to this mon­ster. “But, how can there not be enough top-end iron? What could be bet­ter? — you ask. When pro­duc­tiv­i­ty is at the peak of mod­ern tech­nol­o­gy, var­i­ous know-how solu­tions come into play.

In this mod­el, this is a spe­cial Ezel mount that allows you to rotate the screen as you like. You can make a monoblock out of a lap­top, hang it on the wall and use addi­tion­al periph­er­als. You can fold it in such a way that you get a tablet. Heavy (very heavy), but still a tablet. The bezels around the screen (which mea­sures 17.3 inch­es diag­o­nal­ly) are thick and the mounts are mas­sive. This led to the fact that this mir­a­cle weighs 4.5 kg! There­fore, it is bet­ter to use this gad­get as an alter­na­tive to a desk­top com­put­er.

If you do not take into account the above chip, the device is also “on the lev­el” in terms of oth­er para­me­ters. Under the hood is an Nvidia RTX 2080 video card. The already famil­iar Intel Core i7-8750H was installed in a pair with it. There are two SSD dri­ves with a capac­i­ty of 512 GB each. As well as 32 GB of RAM. The screen res­o­lu­tion is 4K.

As you can see, the lap­top is well stuffed from the inside and it seems that it is dif­fi­cult to some­how improve it. How­ev­er, the engi­neers man­aged to imple­ment an inter­est­ing fea­ture that dis­tin­guish­es the device from its com­peti­tors. But, accord­ing to the tra­di­tions of the genre, there are also dis­ad­van­tages. First, it is the afore­men­tioned weight. And, sec­ond­ly, this is the bat­tery life, which at its peak reach­es a mis­er­able 3 hours. The ques­tion is brew­ing: is it real­ly a portable device?

The video card is one of the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the NVIDIA Quadro RTX fam­i­ly. The user can choose from one of two mod­els: RTX 3000 or RTX 4000. The old­er mod­i­fi­ca­tion will be 20% more pro­duc­tive in terms of aver­age per­for­mance, how­ev­er, such a set­up will also cost more. It is also pos­si­ble to switch to the video core built into the proces­sor. Here it is the Intel UHD Graph­ics 630 inte­grat­ed into the Intel Core i7 9850H. It is a proces­sor with 6 cores and 12 threads. Clock fre­quen­cy 2.6 GHz. Such hard­ware will allow you to com­fort­ably per­form any graph­ic tasks.

The amount of RAM is 16 GB. You can increase this val­ue up to 128 GB. By the way, the devel­op­er equipped the moth­er­board with 4 slots for RAM. This is a good stock for a fur­ther upgrade. The screen is also in order. The diag­o­nal is 17.3 inch­es. Res­o­lu­tion — Full HD. The matrix, of course, IPS. We can say that this is the min­i­mum for a mod­ern design­er. No TN and low res­o­lu­tion!

But even in such an expen­sive device there are dis­ad­van­tages. The lap­top holds a charge for only 4 hours. And dur­ing ren­der­ing, this val­ue will def­i­nite­ly fall, at least twice. So it is bet­ter to pick up anoth­er lap­top if the out­let is not always near­by. Also note that only one 512 GB SSD is installed as a dri­ve. Obvi­ous­ly there is not enough hard dri­ve to store fin­ished projects.

Apple MacBook Pro 16

Price: 1820$.

Yes, infre­quent­ly Apple prod­ucts are in the top, as the most afford­able. But when it comes to choos­ing the best lap­top for a graph­ic design­er in 2020, incred­i­bly expen­sive deals (more on that below) sur­face. Nev­er­the­less, it is fool­ish to deny the advan­tages of the Mac­Book: it is in many ways bet­ter than its com­peti­tors.

One of the best proces­sors on the mar­ket (Intel Core i9 9880H) will be avail­able to the user only in the old­er ver­sion of the mod­el. There are three in total. They dif­fer in the proces­sor, the amount of RAM and video mem­o­ry, as well as the capac­i­ty of the dri­ve. When order­ing from the Apple web­site, you will be able to cus­tomize the con­fig­u­ra­tion for almost all para­me­ters. So you can choose the right set­up and not over­pay. Return­ing to the proces­sor, it is worth say­ing that 8 cores and 16 threads is the max­i­mum that you can get in a mod­ern lap­top.

As always, Apple prod­ucts stand out for their excel­lent screen. Let’s start with non-stan­dard para­me­ters. It has a 16-inch screen with a res­o­lu­tion of 3072x1920. With this num­ber of pix­els, the pic­ture looks much more detailed when com­pared with the clas­sic Full HD. But that’s not all. In the Mac­Book Pro 16, you’ll find a cou­ple of design­er-friend­ly tech­nolo­gies. For exam­ple, the True Tone func­tion, which adjusts the col­or bal­ance to the envi­ron­men­tal con­di­tions. Or the Night Shift func­tion, which makes the pic­ture warmer at night.

But there are also dis­ad­van­tages. First­ly, due to the pro­duc­tive hard­ware, the bat­tery charge lev­el drops from 100% to 0% very quick­ly: in a cou­ple of hours under heavy load. Sec­ond­ly, for the same rea­son, there are prob­lems with cool­ing, which can hard­ly cope with pow­er­ful fill­ing. How­ev­er, this mod­el is bound to be at the top of the 2020 archi­tects and inte­ri­or design lap­tops with its amaz­ing screen capa­bil­i­ties and out­stand­ing proces­sor.

ACER CONCEPT D 7

Price: 2800$.

Design­er lap­tops are sim­i­lar to gam­ing lap­tops in many ways. They have incred­i­bly pro­duc­tive hard­ware. Often the dif­fer­ence lies only in the video card (this is either an RTX or RTX Quadro series). The CONCEPT D 7 mod­el is great for both con­tent cre­ators and gamers.

She has a top-end RTX 2080 chip installed on board. The proces­sor is only 6‑core: this is the Intel Core i7 9750H. How­ev­er, its com­put­ing pow­er will be enough for you to work with heavy design pro­grams. And 32 GB of RAM will con­tribute to this. You can store files on one of the two SSDs. The vol­ume of each is 1024 GB.

A dis­tinc­tive fea­ture of the device is a 15.6‑inch screen. It is based on an IPS matrix with a res­o­lu­tion of 3840x2160. Adobe RGB col­or gamut is 100% fac­to­ry cal­i­brat­ed. The col­or accu­ra­cy coef­fi­cient is at the lev­el of Delta E 2. With such indi­ca­tors, you can be sure that the pho­to on the screen will be as close to real­i­ty as pos­si­ble.

Despite the pow­er­ful stuff­ing, the gad­get turned out to be quite com­pact and light. The weight was 2.1 kg. And the dimen­sions are 358.5 x 255 x 17.9 mm. You can eas­i­ly car­ry the device with you all day long. You will not expe­ri­ence any dis­com­fort. One bat­tery charge lasts approx­i­mate­ly 8 hours. Agree, the lap­top has real­ly out­stand­ing char­ac­ter­is­tics. We think the ques­tion “which lap­top in 2020 is bet­ter for a design­er?” now becomes rhetor­i­cal.

Acer Predator Triton 900

Price: 3300$.

If the capa­bil­i­ties of pre­vi­ous mod­els are not enough for you, pay atten­tion to this mon­ster. “But, how can there not be enough top-end iron? What could be bet­ter? — you ask. When pro­duc­tiv­i­ty is at the peak of mod­ern tech­nol­o­gy, var­i­ous know-how solu­tions come into play.

In this mod­el, this is a spe­cial Ezel mount that allows you to rotate the screen as you like. You can make a monoblock out of a lap­top, hang it on the wall and use addi­tion­al periph­er­als. You can fold it in such a way that you get a tablet. Heavy (very heavy), but still a tablet. The bezels around the screen (which mea­sures 17.3 inch­es diag­o­nal­ly) are thick and the mounts are mas­sive. This led to the fact that this mir­a­cle weighs 4.5 kg! There­fore, it is bet­ter to use this gad­get as an alter­na­tive to a desk­top com­put­er.

If you do not take into account the above chip, the device is also “on the lev­el” in terms of oth­er para­me­ters. Under the hood is an Nvidia RTX 2080 video card. The already famil­iar Intel Core i7-8750H was installed in a pair with it. There are two SSD dri­ves with a capac­i­ty of 512 GB each. As well as 32 GB of RAM. The screen res­o­lu­tion is 4K.

As you can see, the lap­top is well stuffed from the inside and it seems that it is dif­fi­cult to some­how improve it. How­ev­er, the engi­neers man­aged to imple­ment an inter­est­ing fea­ture that dis­tin­guish­es the device from its com­peti­tors. But, accord­ing to the tra­di­tions of the genre, there are also dis­ad­van­tages. First, it is the afore­men­tioned weight. And, sec­ond­ly, this is the bat­tery life, which at its peak reach­es a mis­er­able 3 hours. The ques­tion is brew­ing: is it real­ly a portable device?

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