Hello
I am currently looking into buying a new laptop. Knowing that I have a good chance of doing 3D modeling (Solidworks or other), I wanted to know if it was possible to compensate for the poor quality of a graphics card with a lot of RAM with a good processor.
Hello
Well, no. Now the choice of graphics card depends a lot on the use you will have of Solidworks (for Catia I don't know). I have a laptop with an integrated graphics chipset (no graphics card), intel core i7 and 16GB of RAM and I have no problem but, be careful, I don't do any surface or part requiring big graphics calculations and I don't particularly need the realistic rendering ...
Otherwise: i7, 16GB of RAM minimum plus SSD preferably. More complete information HERE.
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Thank you for this information. I don't know yet how much I'll use modeling software but I might as well take a computer with a good graphics card when in doubt.
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Yes, that's for sure, but that's what will inflate the price...
Be careful, for the graphics card it is preferable to take a model certified by Solidworks (see HERE) and for the Gamer version PCs they are not specially adapted to CAD use!!
For example, if you look quickly, you can find a portable workstation with a 15.6" FHD (1,920 x 1,080 ) non-touch anti-glare screen, a 9th generation Intel ® Core i7-9750H™ processor , 16 GB of DDR4 SDRAM at 2,666 MHz, an Nvidia Quadro P620 w/ 4GB GDDR5 graphics card (Solidworks certified card) and a 512 GB SSD hard drive for 1550€ excl. VAT.
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Impossible, it's like wanting to gain more horsepower on your car by putting "premium" fuel instead of the standard...
As already said, it depends on the use.
For my part I have 32GB of ram, a quadro P4000 card and an Intel Xeon 3.7ghz
It's enough for the majority of my work, but sometimes having 64GB of ram could help me (3d scan post-processing in particular)