7970M compatibility with CAD

I am planning on getting a NP9170 with a 7970M, mostly for the engineering program at my school. We use the autodesk inventor program, and also several similar autodesk programs.

How compatible is the 7970 with these programs, and also CAD in general.

How does it's CAD compatibility compare to that of the 675?

 

I've never used Autodesk but it does appear to take advantage of CUDA cores which comes on Nvidia cards, AMD does not have them. If your main goal for the computer is school work go with Nvidia.

 

I thought latest AMDs were better for compute functions than Nvidias that relegated that to their professional Quadro line?

 

You would be right. 7970M is about 200% faster than Nvidia for CAD programs. It's not even a competition. CUDA is dead, that should not be a reason to buy Nvidia anymore. Any company that continues to use it, is just trolling us. Long story short, Nvidia wants you to pay $5000 if you use CAD, or you only get something good for gaming.

 

amd 7970m would destryo kepler line ( nvidia 6xxm) as well as fermi line (5xxxm) in gpgpu application . so my suggestion would go for amd 7970m since both solidwork and autodesk support opencl which by the way also works on nvidia gpgpu but nvidia bailed out this time on gpgpu power on this generation sadly . for autodesk in order to have open cl support you need to have 2013 version and beyond. here is some info:

OpenCL support for 3D analysis solvers - WikiHelp

Autodesk - Autodesk Consulting - AMD (Advanced Micro Devices)

for solidworks:

AMD FirePro



so in conclusion . your desired cad application must support open-cl to have amd 7970m but if your application support cuda then go for nvidia or . most all cad application support open cl now

 

Thanks. I am feeling a bit more confident about the 7970... but now there are threads going missing...

 

Anything I can do for you ?. Test specific some a cad application u want me to test. I with download AutoCAD 2013 since my father is mechanical engineer and want to test out

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That would be helpful... although it would take you a long time to test it. My desktop has a first gen I7 at 2.7 ghz, 6 gb 1333 mhz triple channel ram, and a GTS250 with 1gb of GDDR3. The reason I first wanted to look into a new computer is because I was crashing my desktop when attempting to make tracks for tanks in Autodesk inventor. Not only did it take around 4 hours... I also lost my work in the end

If you have any complex pre-made models, I am basically just wondering how far you can go with this card.

Thank you very much for your offer.

Plus.... if it doesn't work at all, that also answers the question

 

OK I will do that however my father don't have dwg complex model. Most are building project for hvac design . I will try finding complex model in internet

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