Fusion
@Anonymous
I have not heard anything. Can you share some of what you know? I'm happy to track anything down.
As usual with graphics, the latest drivers, and not overloading the GPU, etc. are always best practice. So from time to time customers find graphics crashes, but many times these are cleared up by new drivers or not overloading (such as a 512MB card trying to run two UHD monitors).
Thanks,
Phil Eichmiller
Software Engineer
Quality Assurance
Autodesk, Inc.
Several forum users here have reported negative experiences with Quadro cards.
The "PRO" graphics cars such a NVIDIA quadro or the AMD Fire GL cards use the same graphics chips as the gaming cards but sometimes lag behind a generation.
The reason for that can be found in the driver software that is optimized and "hardened" for Open GL performance, which is used by most "other"CAD and DDC software packages.
Autodesk Inventor and Fusion 360 use the DirectX API and over the last 10-15 years repeatedly these Pro graphics cards, when tested have show sub par performance when using DirectX software.
In general the driver software and the more robust design (assumption on my side) yield a much higher price for the pro graphics cards compared with a gaming card with the same chip set.
However, if you've tested your set-up and already have a quadro card and everything works fine, I'd see no reason to change.
Interesting fact. On macOS Fusion 360 uses the Open GL API.
Cx2 wrote:As Peter has stated it seems to be an openg/directx issue, Solidworks has a selection box for use opengl and although it has it, it is not recommended that people use it!
Can you site sources for your information?
I think there might be some confusion here.
SolidWorks uses OpenGL by default while many people are using DirectX gaming cards rather than OpenGL CAD cards.
I think the selection box you refer to is for software OpenGL, not for dedicated hardware GPU OpenGL.
@Anonymous wrote:
"....Some software, like fusion 360 for example doesn't work at all on workstation cards because fusion uses direct x instead of open gl."
https://www.reddit.com/r/cad/comments/58fsly/graphics_card_for_cad_and_gaming/
That is absolute and utter nonsense! Of course Fusion 360 runs on a pro card.
All Graphics cards are delivered with DirectX as well as OpenGL drivers. You cannot run Windows without running DirectX, so you can also run games on Quadro, or Fire GL cards, because they also are delivered with these drivers. However, the drivers that receive most attention in terms of 3D performance and stability on the PRO cards are the openGL drivers, because most other CAD and DCC software run Open GL.
Gaming cards also come with OpenGL drivers, simply because there are also game engines that run OpenGL, for example the idtech game engine that run the first person shooter Doom. These drivers often don't receive the level of attention they should because stability is not as much of a concern in the gaming world as it is in the content creation industries.
I've had a subscription to a German computer magazine for over 20 years now and they regularly test Pro Graphics cards and that usually includes test how these perform in Games. They are always outperformed by the gamin cards, which is not much of a surprise, but they do work.
Gaming cards also are often designed for max performance with clear comnromises in terms of stability and frequencies and timing setting for the GPU, chip sets and memory chips are set to borderline values to get the most out of these cards.
@Anonymous the "issue" you are reporting is completely unrelated from your graphics card. Rendering performance is also completely unrelated as rendering in Fusion 360 is not done on the graphics card.
