Question Prioritizing graphics cards in software

AMT11

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Hello

To work with Solidworks 2023 and Catia latest version, please sort and type the following cards from strongest to weakest in terms of rendering. After sorting, please, if the graphics card is not a suitable product in your opinion, please type an equivalent card in front of it, even if it is from the previous generation.

RTX 3050, RTX 3050 ti T RTX 3060, RTX 3060 ti , RTX 3070, RTX 3070 ti, RTX 4050, RTX 4050 ti, RtX 4060, RTX 4060 ti 8GB, RTX 4060 ti 16GB

Thank you
 
For Solidworks I think you actually do want a Quadro.


From personal experience I can say that Quadros make quite the difference for Solidworks. We had a policy where I worked that we would essentially always buy the third best Quadro available at the time of workstation purchase. Nvidia may be artificially make the Quadro drivers better, but that doesn't put all Quadro out of reach.

PugetSystems is well known for their workstation benchmarks.


Assembly Size | Resolution1080P (1920×1080)4K (3840×2160)
Small (<1 million triangles)NVIDIA T600 or higherRTX A2000 or higher
Medium (>1 million triangles)RTX A2000 or higherRTX A4000 or higher
Large (>10 million triangles)RTX A4000 or higherRTX A5000 or higher