Even a mobile graphics card like the 960M in my notebook has way more cores than the processor. i7 4720 HQ = 4 cores NVidia GTX 960M = 640 cores Always enable the CUDA feature of Cycles, if it's supported. Alternatively, there are online "render farm" services that charge pennies for the GHz/hour and can render your…
For those that have tried Eevee (the PBR viewport of 2.8), have you noticed getting a different result on screen than the demos that are around? There's these demo scenes: https://www.blender.org/2-8/#try-it-yourself If I load the "Race Spaceship" scene it looks very different from the pictures, with the scene almost all…