Question A graphics card for a XEON Windows 7 machine

[cve60069]

I have a XEON PC running Windows 7 which I spare no expense to keep alive (legacy software worth £1000's to replace) . Recently, the graphic card fried and the replacement is not up to the job. If I found a second-hand (or new) Windows 7 era graphic card on the internet, what should I look for. My last card was a P2000 but I would like someting better.

Main software is AutoCAD 14 and Revit 14 and Photoshop 6 - Yeah, that old but it works and its paid for. Lots of 3D work.

Also, I do a lot of VBA code in CAD and Excel and I notice that AutoCAD can be slow. Are there Maths processors that AutoCAD could use - maybe the graphic card processor, bit-coin like?

Regards

Dan

 

[Eximo]

Xeon isn't exactly specific. Windows 7 can run on lots of generations of Xeon.

Complete specifications, including power supply would help.

Pascal is 10 series cards, and that is the oldest with current driver support. Larger Pascal Quadros is a potential answer. P4000, P5000, P6000. As long as you have the appropriate power supply and room in the chassis.

P2000 has 1024 CUDA cores.
T1000 has 896 CUDA cores (Turing though) (RTX 20 series, with tensor and ray tracing cores as well)

The GPUs are acting as co-processors for the system already, not really much to add. The Quadro drivers do enable certain features that help programs like AutoCAD.

Sounds more like you need a new CPU, if we know the socket could maybe find a faster Xeon, either clock speed or core count that could help you. Nothing says you can't migrate the OS to a new system, but that does come with risks and the potential to lose your activations.

Cloning the system to a VM and running it on newer hardware with passthrough is another potential option.

Photoshop 6 could probably be replaced by GIMP easily enough. Been a lot of changes since PS6.

AutoCAD 14 is also quite old, predates my even seeing AutoCAD I think. Can't quite recall what version I used in High School, but it was probably something like 16 or 17. Have you looked at FreeCAD, QCad, LibreCAD, and many others. Given the age these probably cover the actions and toolsets you need.