Graphic card

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June 13, 2020
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Hello, has anyone experience with graphic card NVIDIA^® GeForce RTX™ 2060, for CREO design. I work with some full parametric designs, and the projects that I develop, can have up to 4000 components (the most complexes). I have defined a budget to the computer, and I was trying to have a better processor instead a quadro graphics, for the same money. In the end of a project, is quite normal to have 5 to 10 minutes in regeneration. I was trying to reduce as much as possible this value.

Any experience?

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rreifsnyder

15-Moonstone

The GeForce graphics cards are gaming cards. sometimes you can get them to work, and in the old days some gaming cards were faster than some supported OpenGL cards BUT they can also lead to issues with crashes as well as being overwhelmed if your workflow is that you open multiple windows. You mention wanting to save money here to get a better CPU and I agree with that to a point. I haven't looked at it in the last 6 months or so but when selecting the CPU remember that Creo is single threaded so don't go off spending huge money on a 12 core Xeon or something. I would recommend looking at this web site to try to maximize your bang for the buck. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html.

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T_F

Author

16-Pearl

Thanks by your reply. The processor that I have in mind is the i9 10th generation. The xeon for CAD proposes only, is wasting money.

The gaming graphics card is less expensive. But my big question, and probably for the most people, is that they will perform similar to quadro?

Can we save a couple of hundred € , and have similar graphic performance?

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BenLoosli

23-Emerald III

Speed of the CPU isn't everything when it comes to CAD. The Xeon is a good example. Check the different caches on the chip along with CPU speed for performance. As mentioned, a high core count does not help Creo. Also, disable hyperthreading when you do get it, as that does nothing for performance.

Like it was mentioned the Nvidia gaming cards are cheaper for a reason, they support Direct-X in hardware, not Open-GL. The Quadro cards support Open-GL in hardware, so the graphics processing is faster. You may also find opening multiple parts/assemblies may be limited with the RTX.

You get what you pay for when it comes to CAD workstations. A few extra bucks up front may save you hours over the course of a project.