topic Re: Hardware Inquiry in AutoCAD Forum

Hardware Inquiry

thaddeus.morrison — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:16:10 GMT

Hey folks,

Preference for Autocad Laptop:

12th Gen i7 w/14 or 16 cores
12th Gen i5 w/8 Cores
11th Gen i7 w/8 Cores

All of the new i7 processors have more than 8 cores. Am I only getting 1/16th or 1/8th of the processor in these conditions or does the overclocking/chip design let it pump more resources into 1 core for a single threaded program like Autocad?

Re: Hardware Inquiry

paullimapa — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:59:17 GMT

I would always go with i7 over i5. If you can afford the higher cores, go with that too.

Re: Hardware Inquiry

pendean — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 20:35:52 GMT

i7

Don't sweat the specs there: what does the rest of your laptop look like?

Re: Hardware Inquiry

thaddeus.morrison — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 20:43:02 GMT

32 Gigs DDR5

1 TB Solid State

Standard Graphics (not sure what the specs are)

backlight keyboard!😁

Re: Hardware Inquiry

pendean — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:41:20 GMT

Very "average", nothing special: you must be on a budget or a light user (a supervisor/manager perhaps?). Then save your money, stick with the i5, you'll not notice too much difference from your current rig.

HTH

Re: Hardware Inquiry

paullimapa — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:43:52 GMT

I would go with if available a graphics card Autodesk has certified with AutoCAD:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/certified-graphics-hardware

Re: Hardware Inquiry

thaddeus.morrison — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:56:07 GMT

I want to guarantee no lag on 2d drafting or 3d drawings. Not planning to use rendering, but it'd be nice to get rid of that pause when switching layouts or hitting the iso corner on the view cube.

I will be using sheet sets and all the cool functions like the sheet page numbers/labels and auto naming call-outs.

Re: Hardware Inquiry

thaddeus.morrison — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 21:51:39 GMT

How did that get marked as a solution?🤔

I still would like to know if the i7 processor only uses 1/8th or 1/16 the Ghz when running cad or if it's able to up resources to a single core and get more power to run the program. Is that even the right question?

My current rig is a xeon processor and ddr3 (or 4) and out of warranty. I hope to see a vast improvement with the i7 machine. It's possible I'll be doing a good bit of drafting later.

Thanks @pendean & @paullimapa for all the input so far.

Re: Hardware Inquiry

paullimapa — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 22:01:03 GMT

this thread may shed some more light to your question:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/multicore-processors-more-2-cores/td-p/9044203#:~:text=AutoCAD%20takes%20advantage%20of%20multi,are%20slowed%20down%20by%20it.