topic System requirements in AutoCAD Forum

System requirements

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 12:12:55 GMT

Is intel i3 7th gen processor with 8gb ram and 2gb graphics enough to run autocad and 3ds max smoothly.

Re: System requirements

pendean — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 12:54:53 GMT

Only if you are very casual user that never wants to deal with complex files.

Re: System requirements

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 23:12:02 GMT

The "System requirements for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018" are found here.

Of note:

CPU Type: 1 GHz

Memory: 4GB (8GB required for large datasets, point clouds, and 3D modeling)

Display Card: DirectX 9 (DirectX 11 compliant card recommended. 128 MB VRAM or greater required for large datasets, point clouds, and 3D modeling)

Your setup sounds like it's more than the bare-minimum required to run AutoCAD well. The only time you should really notice performance issues, as has been said, is when using large datasets, etc.

Re: System requirements

Alfred.NESWADBA — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 23:21:56 GMT

Hi,

,,,and the system requirements for 3DS-Max are >>>there<<< 😉

3DS-Max has to do with rendering, it uses multicore, so an I3 can't be a processor I would like to use, even not for the smallest project!

- alfred -