AMD or NVIDIA Quadro for Autocad 2018

[RDL1963]

I need to find out which graphics card to order. ( AMD or Quadro)For autocad 2018 I do 2D & little 3D work. Also insert pdf to dwg (open large files at times) Work with a lot of hatching with textures.

I have a:
Dell Precision Tower 5810 w/xeon e5-1650 v3
AMD Firepro w5100
With 16gb ram

 

[okcnaline]

Order something Radeon Pro WX, I guess. OpenGL rules for this type of work.

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/workstation-graphics-2013/05-AutoCAD-2013-2D-Performance-Summary,3281.html

 

[fastcountach]

AutoCAD is not particularly taxing on the GPU (or the CPU for that matter). I use 2015 and have used it with integrated graphics and Quadros. When you turn on the Hardware Acceleration in AutoCAD, the only difference i noticed i was able to drag around a larger quantity of things without reducing to a bounding box.

So, just buy whatever is cheaper, unless your using very large complicated 3D models, in which case AutoCAD probably isn't the right choice.

 

[RDL1963]

Thank you fastcountach. Your right about 3d in autocad. It's not 3d friendly. And will do on the cheapest GPU. Thanks again.