Home PC vs Office Workstation: Better Specs, Worse Performance

[clay.fritz]

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

[natasha.l]

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.

[Tomislav.Golubovic]

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/

[SeeMSixty7]

Hard Drive?

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

[pendean]

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.