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The customer may not be too keen on spending over $800 on a card however, but im open to options.
He thought he did well getting it for $1099, which im sure if it was needed then sure... but those displays are meant to be for high end graphics works like texture work, photo editing and anything needing accurate color reproduction, which they don't need thus far.
They will be dealing with 2D autocad for the most part and one of his kids (almost 30) is going through a masters program and may be using it for some more advanced 3D autocad in the future. Otherwise id just throw in a higher end consumer card. However he would like it to be capable just in case.
Consumer cards as much as they would be almosy identical for the 2D stuff they are doing... they still could benefit from the graphics having ECC and the added attention to the drivers that the Pro cards get. Again if they are doing some 3D stuff in the future then it is another reason to have a pro card.
Perhaps more embarassing is that plenty of CAD software is still single-threaded. Seeing one 100% thread and eleven idle threads when only AutoCAD is running makes me a SAD PANDA
Chrispy_ wrote:By those criteria, an inexpensive Bonaire GPU in a Radeon R7-260X 2GB might suffice. Have you tried any cards this cheap with your real-world applications?Maya, Catia, Solidworks - Those are the applications I know of that benefit from Quadro/FirePro.
AutoCAD, 3DSMax, Revit, Inventor, Rhino, Sketchup, Microstation - I would actively AVOID workstation GPUs and aim for a consumer card.
JustAnEngineer wrote:Chrispy_ wrote:By those criteria, an inexpensive Bonaire GPU in a Radeon R7-260X 2GB might suffice. Have you tried any cards this cheap with your real-world applications?Maya, Catia, Solidworks - Those are the applications I know of that benefit from Quadro/FirePro.
AutoCAD, 3DSMax, Revit, Inventor, Rhino, Sketchup, Microstation - I would actively AVOID workstation GPUs and aim for a consumer card.
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Storage: Crucial MX200 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Snigle biggest performance bottleneck for real-world AutoCAD usage is RAM, based on the sort of modelling we do. Slap 32GB in there if the budget allows - then you've maxed out the board and don't have to worry about it for a while!
whm1974 wrote:Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Storage: Crucial MX200 500GB 2.5" Solid State DriveSnigle biggest performance bottleneck for real-world AutoCAD usage is RAM, based on the sort of modelling we do. Slap 32GB in there if the budget allows - then you've maxed out the board and don't have to worry about it for a while!
Isn't 16 GB of memory and a 512 GB SSD kind of on the small side for CAD?
the wrote:There are a handful of exclusive features for Pro cards:
1) Hardware acceleration for 2D line anti-aliasing - this makes working in wireframes far nicer due to AA being applied.