Graphics cards for Laptops_CAD use

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Can someone please help, I am looking to purchase a new laptop and am struggling to find a graphics card from the Autodesk reccomended list on any of the custom built websites (If i was using a tower comp it would be easy as i could buy the parts individually, but due to me being on the move alot, i need to go laptop route)

I use 2103 architecture, although i do not use it to its full potential. I am a timberframe designer and the bolt on program i use (Consultec) does use a 3d element. I want a graphics card that will give me a reasonable high performance whilst not costing the earth. I do not need an all signing all dancing gaming GC.

The ones i am looking at are

Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070

Which is best and will these give me the performance i need.

Thanks so much

From the man who doesnt really know much about graphics cards.

Ps....attached is a spec of comp i am looking at getting, any thoughts??? As you will see i have chosen to not have an operating sytem installed. I cannot stand Windows 10 so will be installing Windows 7 Pro myself.

[gotphish001]

I have a similar laptop as the one you have posted except I have the gtx970 that you mentioned above that. I've never had any problems using ACA or Revit as far as it being slow or anything.  Usually the higher numbers on the card means better, but not always. You can always go to "tom's hardware guide" website. There are charts for everything to compare. The site is set up pretty good so it should be easy to find the list of mobile graphics cards with benchmarks. You can check to see which of those 3 has the highest average scores, but as I said I have the lowest number out of the 3 and it's been good so any probably would be cool. 

Here's another benchmark chart. It's always good to future proof, but sometimes if it's 500$ more then it might not be worth it if the lesser one would work just as good. 

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html