Processor Speed Requirements

[Anonymous]

AutoCAD requires a minimum 2.5-2.9GHz and recommends 3+GHz. I am using a 1.3GHz with turbo boost maxing at 3.7GHz. will that still work? if not, what will happen?

[DarrenP]

nothing will happen

it will install & run you may have slow performance due to the lower clock speed but i couldn’t tell you where & when it will take place in Autocad

[Anonymous]

Hi darren,

would the turbo kick in and meet the requirements of AutoCAD?

[pendean]

It will when the OS decides it is needed, and when that happens your battery will drain much quicker and your laptop will heat up slightly too. It will just be ever so slightly slow feeling if you are a power user coming off a desktop, if you are not for either I'm not you'd notice too much most of the time.

What are the rest of your laptop's specs? RAM, HD type/speed/Capacity, video card, what type of drawings do you do (2D, 3D, small files like under 10MB, huge files line 50MB and larger, point-clouds etc.)?

Processor alone does not help or hinder AutoCAD's performance alone.

[Anonymous]

i5 quad core (1.2GHz w Turbo up to 3.7GHz) [correction to specs stated previously]
8gb RAM

intel iris plus graphics card

256GB SSD

2D floor plans and geo-referenced mapping. under 10MB in size

[dan908]

Hello,

It would be good to know what sorts of things you will be doing with this setup? If you are mainly viewing and plotting or using it to do small projects you could probably get by with the 1.2 GHz all of the time. If the project is Xref heavy and large, you will probably speed up your CPU frequently. As others have said, your experience will vary, but you will probably have your CPU running up to turbo during heavy operations. The machine you are using, has an Intel card right? If you are on an Intel card this set up will probably show lag. You could push a lot of the work off from the CPU to GPU if you had a nice spec gaming card or certified card (zooming, panning, etc). I think it is going to feel laggy on bigger files or files with large xrefs with an Iris card and that CPU.

When we used to certify entire laptops, the lowest clock speed that could pass our certification test that I can recall was a 2.3 GHz laptop. It is a very 3d heavy certification though. I can't be sure on this set up because it is not a certified set up.

[pendean]

You'll run out of HD space next month if you save all those files types to the laptop, that's a travel-laptop capacity for someone with a desktop they use all the time when they are in the office.
Unless you have a high-speed files location (not a thumbdrive) to take up that storage need.

Other than that, that's an average laptop for an average AutoCAD user if you don't mind the occasional slow performance: I bet the price of that laptop is/was likely very attractive.

HTH

[Anonymous]

i deal mostly with architectural and engineering details. but im also working on plotting multiple floor plans into one file for mapping purposes. I'd imagine it is best for me to get a higher spec computer with min 2.5 GHz based on everyones helpful input.

[dan908]

If your budget allows, just get a gaming laptop with a GTX 1650 card or something along those lines. Details will probably get by with a lower end machine, but publishing sheets would be a pretty heavy operation. You can probably get by with the lower end of the CPU recommendations. Consider that the majority of the work you are doing would not take advantage of multiple cores (maybe some of the hatching), so go with fewer cores and higher clock speed if you are choosing between the two and take advantage of a higher powered GPU (graphics) with more dedicated video memory.