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    Have a question regarding video card and CAD software

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by RollinD, Oct 3, 2011.

  1. RollinD

    RollinD Newbie

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    We're ordering a laptop for my brother in college who will be studying civil engineering. The laptop will mostly be used for AutoCAD and other engineering software. Does anyone know if the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M will run most CAD software with no problems?

    Thanks.
     
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  2. Anthony@MALIBAL

    Anthony@MALIBAL Company Representative

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    I imagine almost any discrete graphics card will run it just fine, as per the requirements for say, AutoCAD (which is only 128Mb graphics RAM):

    Autodesk - AutoCAD - System Requirements

    Ideally you'd want a Quadro Workstation class card for the better drivers for professional type rendering, but the 560m should probably run it without any trouble at all :)

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M - Notebookcheck.net Tech
     
    Anthony@MALIBAL, Oct 3, 2011
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  3. RollinD

    RollinD Newbie

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    Thanks. Yeah, I was reading about the Quadro cards, but they are way out of our budget. I'm hoping that whatever we go with,will at least get him through these next 3 years of college.
     
    RollinD, Oct 3, 2011
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  4. MightyAA

    MightyAA Notebook Guru

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    Seriously... you do not want a Quadro card. Autodesk barely uses OpenGL anymore and has been consistantly moving away from it since Autocad 2008. There is zero performance increase at all, barely any driver updates, and you even would have to change the Autocad default to use OpenGL. Do more research over at Autodesk forums.

    A nice discussion about it here:
    Quadro (best available) vs Other Graphics Cards - Autodesk Discussion Groups
     
    MightyAA, Oct 4, 2011
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