That's a really tough one. In all likelyhood if you are going to use a laptop for Octane rendering, it is going to be plugged in, not running on battery power.
There seem to be several 17 inch laptops with a 1080gtx that are at or beyond $3000.
From B&H in the U.S. those at or below $3000:
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- Tue Jun 19, 2018 8:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Looking for BEST LAPTOP for OCTANE RENDERING, under $3000.
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- Tue Sep 27, 2016 1:59 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Z820 GPU setup
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Re: Z820 GPU setup
The HP Z series doesn't support SLI with the GTX cards (it does with Quadro cards) but you can use multiple GTX cards for Octane, 2 with one CPU, more require 2 CPUs.
            		