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Gaming laptop for rendering vs. workstation

Question asked by rodney mansfield on Mar 19, 2021
Latest reply on Mar 19, 2021 by Heiko Sohnholz

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I am looking to upgrade my SolidWorks laptop for SW2021. I will be using the machine for light SW modeling & assemblies (100 - 200 components). However - I will be using the laptop heavily in the SW rendering mode. I have read that the gaming laptops with the Nvidia GTX-1050 / 1060 series cards will do a better job with the rendering than some of the certified SW cards. The laptop will be a 9th generation I7 processor with 16GB to 32GB of RAM. (For reference - the GTX 1050 & 1060 have 4GB / 6GB of memory on them respectively). Does anyone have any experience / knowledge on this?

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Heiko Sohnholz Mar 19, 2021 8:16 AM

Hello,

I don't believe, that the entry-level gaming cards like 1050 / 1060 will perform very well with Visualize. Is Visualize the tool you are talking about, when you say "rendering"? Or do you mean PhotoView360? It makes a great difference, because Visualize renders on the GPU and PV360 on the CPU.

Or do you mean just mean the RealView in SOLIDWORKS? This is supported on Quadro cards only, not on the (GeForce) GTX cards you have mentioned.

So please: Clarify.

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rodney mansfield @ Heiko Sohnholz on Mar 19, 2021 8:22 AM

Hello Heiko & thank you for your response. I am referring to PhotoView 360 that I will be using. I am not concerned so much about using RealView.

Rodney

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Heiko Sohnholz @ rodney mansfield on Mar 19, 2021 8:41 AM

Thank you for this additional information.

PV360 renders only on the CPU.With this said, you can choose any GPU. I recommend a NVidia Quadro entry level GPU wich is officially supported, to make sure SWX will run without any issues. And it doesn't matter, if you'll have 4GB or 6GB on your GPU.

Your CPU should have as much and fast cores, you can afford.

And be sure that you won't switch to Visualize instead, because then all these cores will be useless!

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Heiko Sohnholz Mar 19, 2021 8:16 AM
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Hello,
I don't believe, that the entry-level gaming cards like 1050 / 1060 will perform very well with Visualize. Is Visualize the tool you are talking about, when you say "rendering"? Or do you mean PhotoView360? It makes a great difference, because Visualize renders on the GPU and PV360 on the CPU.
Or do you mean just mean the RealView in SOLIDWORKS? This is supported on Quadro cards only, not on the (GeForce) GTX cards you have mentioned.

So please: Clarify.
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- rodney mansfield @ Heiko Sohnholz on Mar 19, 2021 8:22 AM
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  Hello Heiko & thank you for your response. I am referring to PhotoView 360 that I will be using. I am not concerned so much about using RealView.
  
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  - Heiko Sohnholz @ rodney mansfield on Mar 19, 2021 8:41 AM
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    Thank you for this additional information.
    PV360 renders only on the CPU.With this said, you can choose any GPU. I recommend a NVidia Quadro entry level GPU wich is officially supported, to make sure SWX will run without any issues. And it doesn't matter, if you'll have 4GB or 6GB on your GPU.
    Your CPU should have as much and fast cores, you can afford.
    And be sure that you won't switch to Visualize instead, because then all these cores will be useless!
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