Quadro T600 4GB DDR6 for student desktop?

Anonymous · ‎10-03-2021

I need a PC for Autocad, Revit, Fusion 360, possibly Solidworks and Matlab, for basic engineering student work, it will never be used for gaming. Would a Quadro T600 4GB DDR6 be sufficient for my needs? The PC's in the university I go to only use integrated graphics to run the software.

I'm looking at 2 custom PC builds, the 1st from PC Specialist with a Quadro T600, there is an option to have a Geforce 1050 Ti for £18 less, or a Geforce GTX 1660 6GB for £167 more.
The 2nd PC build is from Scan with a Quadro T600, or for £13 more a GeForce GTX 1650 SC ULTRA GAMING 4GB GDDR5.
PC Specialist has a better warranty on the PC.

Any advice would be appreciated.
Thank you.

pendean · ‎10-04-2021

What are the rest of your PC specs? video card alone is never going to be the utopia you may have read about and got distracted by somewhere.

There are many good online articles about gaming vs workstation grade video cards in AutoCAD: read up.

Anonymous · ‎10-04-2021

The other specs are Ryzen 7 5800X, ASUS TUF X570-PLUS GAMING, 32GB 3600 RAM, 1TB SSD Seagate 520.

I have read many articles about gaming vs workstation grade video cards. My question is whether a Quadro T600 is sufficient for my needs? How much of an improvement would a Geforce GTX 1650 4GB be?

Thanks

pendean · ‎10-04-2021

Nice, you are building a super gaming PC: then you probably can do whatever your game(s) support/require instead of worrying about AutoCAD/ARCH. 4GB is low end today, regardless of card chosen IMHO, if it matters to your games or other 3D/Rendering/Graphics software, you probably want to be in the 8GB range.

In my experience setting up users and offices for 30-years...
1) Having more than 32MB Ram today will make a bigger difference if, an only if, you have massive files.
2) Swapping out one video card for another will only matter if, and only if, you also RENDER and HIDE those massive all 3D files in AutoCADARCH all day long.

Which applies to you? If you are not dealing with any of these file conditions now you'll not anytime soon either.