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Home PC vs Office Workstation: Better Specs, Worse Performance

clay.fritz — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 21:04:25 GMT

Good afternoon everyone,

I recently installed Autocad 2020 on home PC. I'm working on the same models, drawings and other files there that I do on my office workstation. However, the performance on my home PC is much worse than the workstation despite having (at least on paper) much better specs. See a comparison of their specs is below. (I would also like to note that I do realize that the GPU on my personal PC is not "certified graphics hardware".)

Is anyone able provide some insight into why, or how I could improve performance on my home PC? Thanks for the help!

Workstation Home PC

OS Windows 10 Enterprise | Windows 10 Professional Edition
MB Dell K240Y (Precision Tower 5810) | Gigabyte B450 Aorus Pro
CPU Intel Xeon E5-1620 @ 3.5GHz | AMD Ryzen 7 1800X @ 3.6GHz

Ram 16gb | 16gb (8gbx2) DDR4-3000

GPU NVIDIA Quadro K4200 | GeForce RTX 2060

711MHz clock w/ 4GB vram | 1680 clock w/ 6GB vram

Display Three Monitors @ 1820x1200 | Single Monitor @ 2560x1400

Re: Home PC vs Office Workstation: Better Specs, Worse Performance

natasha.l — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 21:58:57 GMT

Hello @clay.fritz,

This maybe be more of a maintenance related issue. Try giving these step by step instructions a try first on how to improve AutoCAD performance on your home PC.

Please "Accept Solution" if a reply or replies have helped resolve the issue or answered your question, to help others in the community.

Re: Home PC vs Office Workstation: Better Specs, Worse Performance

Tomislav.Golubovic — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 22:26:07 GMT

AutoCAD is a single threaded application, and the GPU doesn't mean squat unless you're going to be rendering.

I did a benchmarking post on my site, have a read. My Xeon was always better for CAD, whereas my WS63 was always better with gaming benchmarks.

https://technexus.com.au/index.php/2019/01/20/benchmarking-my-pcs/

Re: Home PC vs Office Workstation: Better Specs, Worse Performance

SeeMSixty7 — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 22:51:45 GMT

Hard Drive?

Is the workstation using an SSD drive and the home system traditional drive?

Re: Home PC vs Office Workstation: Better Specs, Worse Performance

pendean — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:58:38 GMT

You wrote: >>>.. the performance on my home PC is much worse than the workstation...<<<
That tells us nothing: can you elaborate?
Also:
- Where /how are the files being accessed at home? WHere are the stored?
- What are your DWG file sizes?
- WHat format DWG are the files saved to?
- 2D, 3D?
- Note exact AutOCAD versions being used at both locations as listed by ABOUT command?

Your PC specs alone mean nothing to anyone.