Question GPU recommendation needed for Autocad 3D design.

[Rayan643]

Hi,
Suggest me a GPU for Autocad designing. It will be for a Building construction company where 3D modeling and animation will be done. Budget is not that an issue but then it’s around $500-600(hardly). But actually I want to how I make the choice for GPU?

The autocad designer said, "3D modeling and animation will lag on this build"
CPU: 7800 X 3D
Motherboard: TUF A620M Plus
RAM: 32 GB (6,000Mhz)
GPU: PNY RTX 3060 Ti (8 GB)

If so, what if I proposed?
CPU: 7700X
Motherboard: MSI PRO A620M-E
RAM: 8+8 GB (5,200Mhz)
GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti VENTUS 3X 16GB OC GDDR6

Please answer in detail about your opinion if you have time. You can also add if there is any bottlenecks or suggest me any chances near to those builds.
Thanks in advance.

 

[USAFRet]

Autodesk has specific recommendations for hardware.
https://www.autodesk.com/support/te...oCAD-2022-including-Specialized-Toolsets.html

A lot depends on the extra toolsets you will be using.
And the minimum requirements listed are just to get it running. Not necessarily for a 'good experience'.

The person doing the work suggests a 3060ti is not enough?
Is the price difference between the 3060 and a 4XXX too much?
What productivity gain will he see with the better GPU?

 

[logainofhades]

For cad work, you ideally want a workstation card, not a gaming one. An x3d chip is wasted on such things, and even 32gb is probably not quite enough ram. Autodesk isn't very well threaded, iirc, either. Honestly, unless you really want the upgrade path, a 12 or 13th gen Intel with DDR4 might be a better solution, price/performance wise. What is total system budget?

 

[USAFRet]

and even 32gb is probably not quite enough ram.

Indeed.
Even at my hobbyist level with Rhino3D, I had to bump up to 64GB.

 

[Rayan643]

For cad work, you ideally want a workstation card, not a gaming one. An x3d chip is wasted on such things, and even 32gb is probably not quite enough ram. Autodesk isn't very well threaded, iirc, either. Honestly, unless you really want the upgrade path, a 12 or 13th gen Intel with DDR4 might be a better solution, price/performance wise. What is total system budget?

Total build budget is around $1500

 

[Rayan643]

Autodesk has specific recommendations for hardware.
https://www.autodesk.com/support/te...oCAD-2022-including-Specialized-Toolsets.html

A lot depends on the extra toolsets you will be using.
And the minimum requirements listed are just to get it running. Not necessarily for a 'good experience'.

The person doing the work suggests a 3060ti is not enough?
Is the price difference between the 3060 and a 4XXX too much?
What productivity gain will he see with the better GPU?

Do they both have nearly same performance? Which build would worth it?

 

[Rayan643]

Indeed.
Even at my hobbyist level with Rhino3D, I had to bump up to 64GB.

Okay ram will be taken 32+32 = 64 gb. But bus speed? As per AMD's site this cpu's max is 5,200. So should i take higher bus than it considering the overclock? And does my motherboard support overclock?

 

[Rayan643]

Honestly, unless you really want the upgrade path, a 12 or 13th gen Intel with DDR4 might be a better solution, price/performance wise.

Could you please make me a build? Though I have budget but it would be good of course I can save some bucks form here. I'd appreciate your help for sure.

How would the issue be of taking DDR4 build over DDR5? Also what about the gen 3 or gen 4 support?

 

[logainofhades]

I was thinking DDR4 could be a bit of a cost savings, so you could get a proper workstation GPU, and plent of storage.

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