GrabCAD Community User Group

Criteria Recommended System Requirements

Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit or newer

Processor: Not provided (several third-party sites have tested this and recommend anywhere between 3.0–3.5 GHz processor)

RAM: 16GB to 32GB

Graphics Cards:

1. EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti - Our Choice
2. PNY Quadro RTX 4000 - Solid performance
3. ZOTAC GeForce RTX 2060 - Full backplate
4. PNY Quadro RTX 8000 - Ideal for professional 4k+ rendering
5. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 - Easily overclocked
6. NVIDIA VCQP2000-PB Quadro P2000 - Good quality

Hard Drive: Any fast Solid State Drive (SSD)

This list is nonsense written by Nvidia fanboys. Why are no ATI cards listed? And you can use gaming cards without ANY problems!

The problem with gaming cards is that they are built to have good frame rate, and to do that they sometimes sacrifice the rendering quality, but when doing cad, you want better rendering, and maybe not high frame rates. You can use gaming cards, but they will not give you the optimal experience.

No idea what you mean by 'rendering quality' in this contex?

I have never experienced any disadvantage by using gaming cards, but I have been frustrated over slow and expensive 'approved' cards, because while being good for CAD, they are terrible for everything else.

I have never had issues with recommended graphics cards. Gaming cards do not provide the performance I require.

CUDA core matters!!

Whats means CUDA core

Thank you

Thank you

CUDA core matters NOT for Solidworks when doing parts and assembly modelling.

CUDA core matters only for rendering, which was not what the question was about.

If you want fast rendering, you can also get a multi-core workstation CPU; which is much more affordable than an 'approved' high end workstation card.

Partially agree sir, but in the time of doing large scale assembly during shaded view as well as if ambient occlusion on that time may face some lag or slow in perfomance, thats why qudro is more preferable.

Why on earth would you turn on shaded view and ambient occlusion with a large assembly???

I use a Quadro RTX A6000 at work. It works fine.

I use a GeForce RTX 2070 Super at home. It works fine.

More recent version of SOLIDWORKS have an option to make better use of more powerful graphics cards: https://www.goengineer.com/blog/solidworks-2021-enhanced-graphics-performance

Many times this option (or the wrong drivers) lead to display issues.

Some rendering applications are CPU based. Others are GPU based. I can render a scene MUCH faster in Keyshot using the GPU option compared to CPU rendering (Intel I7-10700K - 8 core, 3.80 Ghz)

The largest advantage to using an approved graphics card is support. If you're running a "gaming card" you'll get zero technical support from a SW reseller for graphics related issues, or even things that might be graphics related. If you are running an approved card you'll get better support for such issues.

I used an ATI-Radeon Fire Pro something in one workstation but it always had little graphics issues in SOLIDWORKS, Design X, Lightyear, and Materialise Magics. Nothing terrible, but small annoyances. I've not seen the same issues with nVidia based cards. ATI cards might be perfect now? My experience was years ago.

Using RealView and similar options while designing in SOLIDWORKS is dumb. Turn that crap off. I will admit the ambient occlusion option looks nice but not for the performance impact. If a nice looking image is needed render it.

Thank you

Can i used NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 1650 4GB 

with CPU intel i5 11th gen