Does anyone here have any experience with workstation graphics cards? It's for Solidworks (CAD) and pretty advanced stuff.
A guy at work is currently using an AMD FirePro v7800, I built his pc like 6 years ago now and he wants a full system upgrade. But I don't really know anything about CAD graphics cards.
Any recommendations on a good upgrade for around $500-$800? Thanks a lot.
>>57969235
>But I don't really know anything about CAD graphics
Then you don't need a workstation GPU. Until you have a specific reason to buy one stick to the consumer models. Having a Quadro or a Firepro will not make your penis any larger.
if solid works is openCL then a TitanXP (and a 1080 to some extent) will be just as good as the highest end quadro right now
>>57969261
I'm not the one who needs it, he is, and yes he really does need it.
>>57969235
Next best upgrade in your price range would be a W7000, though if you want to inch a little bit out of that for a bit more you might want a W8100 instead.
One of those two might be fine, but I'm not an expert on CAD graphics cards. Run those by him and see what he says, compare the model you have now, etc etc.
Hopefully it helps.
>Does anyone here have any experience with workstation graphics cards?
Do you know where you are? This board is for consumer products, reviews, and Gentoo.
Now get the fuck out, you deleted a perfectly good /guts/ thread for your stupid question
what about the latest vega meme from AMD?
I'm sure that'll be fucking expensive but it on-paper results make it great for raw processing
>>57969362
Yea, I was just looking now and found the W7100. I'm in Canada so it's looking to be $870. Can't go beyond that. Thanks for the help.
>Running solidworks on laptop
>see this thread
>start looking up gpus mentioned
Yeah I'll just nope out of that, save $1000 and savor every extra minute it takes to render a change