I agree with the above post but,,,
This was taken for a mixed revit / acad enviroment and it's also a bit old. Remember this is just my opinion but I think it works.
I’ve set things in order of importance and given them a rating of quality needed. This way you can see the where relationship between price and function is. The lower the number the more the sweet spot of function\price is ok.
CPU (Clock) Speed | 10/10 | | |
Ram (Clock) Speed | 6/10 | | See note |
Cache’s | 7/10 | All caches not just cpu | See notes |
CPU Multi-threading | 4/10 | Over 4 is overkill for my work. | |
Ram Amount | 6/10 | | |
Storage Speed (hd) | 10/10 | Price difference makes this a gimme. | |
GPU Capabilities | 7/10 | | |
GPU VRam Size | 5/10 | | |
CPU / PROCESSOR/CACHE Revit requires a mix of single-threaded and multi-threaded CPU tasks to operate at its peak.
Single-threaded CPU performance (GHz) is most important for model manipulation and general design tasks.
More than ever though there are Revit tasks that are multi-threaded. Multi-threaded tasks would include rendering, point-cloud operations, printing, Vector Exports and Imports such as DWG (I do this a lot) and Background computations of MEP systems.
In addition to that, heavy multi-tasking operations are useful for me. When I am required open up multiple models at the same time I eat memory quite quickly.
Side notes L3 Cache Because of their substantial performance benefits, Autodesk strongly recommends CPUs that include an L3 cache. i5-12600KF at 20 MB Intel® Smart Cache(L3) L2 Cache 9.5 MB
i9-12900KF at 30 MB Intel® Smart Cache(L3) L2 Cache 14 MB
I do feel it would be percentage points faster in picking and the selection of objects.
| MEMORY / RAM Multi-channel memory is my preference. (See side note below) Revit memory requirements are determined by how large and complex the model is and how extensive I want my edit history to be. I feel 32GB of RAM should be enough in most cases.
I will note it is important to have enough memory. When Revit runs out of RAM, the data spills over to the paging file, as hard drives are SSD there is no real clue when this happens and you run REALLY slow until you notice the problem.
Side note
Multi-channel (Dual) memory if possible. (Personal Preference here. I can’t say I see a difference in speeds.
As a further fyi (AKA stupid tech talk.) I don’t like overclocking memory and I prefer Xeon for the ecc and stack checking but I will take the speed/price point of of a core processor. |
