Buying a new laptop....is Intel Iris Plus Grafics strong enough to handle Fusion360?

[eddelbeck]

Hi there,

I just received my new laptop, an ACER Swift3 (SF314-57-75YP) with Core I7 10th Generation, 16GB RAM and Intel Iris Plus onboard graphic chip with 128MB GPU RAM.

After installing and first time opening Fusion360 on this laptop I got the warning: Your graphics card might not be optimal to run Fusion 360. Please run Graphics Diagnostic under the help menu to get more information. 

So I did, and updated the graphic chip driver as recommended. Now everything seems to run smoothly...and no warning popped up again.

Still I'm a bit concerned that the graphic card might not be sufficient to handle bigger tasks in Fusion360??!!

I got another 10 days to return the laptop and get my money back....which would be sad because it was quite a bargain...🤔

Anyone got more insights about using an Intel Iris Plus integrated graphic card on Fusion360??!

Grateful for any help!

Regards

Eddel

[ampster40]

Sorry I do not have any experience with that specific on-board graphics but generally speaking it's ideal to have a dedicated graphics card for CAD or gaming and not use an "on-board" type graphics solution.

The rest of the laptop looks good.  Other than a SSD hard drive would be nice too.

Typically graphic cards for gaming or CAD work are going to have 2GB of video ram or more so the first clue would be 128MB is very low.

HTH

[g-andresen]

Hi,

take a look here.

I understand that the graphics is comparable to a GTX 1650.

The 128 MB are therefore very doubtful*.

günther

* bus width = 128 Bit !

[randyT9V9C]

Running Fusion on a laptop is always a compromise. One of the reasons I like Fusion 360 is that it appears to run reasonable on lack luster hardware. My laptop (MacBook Pro) has Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 1536 MB, it works for what I do. I do recall seeing a similar graphics warning. I run with the check box "Limit effects to optimize performance" checked.

[Jacques_Bayman]

Hi

I have the Acer Swiftt 5 that is essentially the same laptop. I also got a warning on Fusion, but simply ignores it as it run so much better than my old gen 3 I5 ! You can always turn a few "blings" off in Fusion. I am happy with my purchase. I run a dual screen setup, and it works well for me. Of course if you are used to much better... 🙂

[eddelbeck]

Hi all,

thanks a lot for your responses! Each and every comment is very helpful! I decided to keep the laptop (...if no other trouble occurs within the next week! 😉).

Greets from hot hot Berlin (35C/95F)

Eddel

p.s. happy to read more responses still. I guess this topic is interesting for other users too as more and more people want to use Fusion360 with very light devices (Ultrabooks, Tabletts, Convertibles) which come with such graphic cards?!

[Jacques_Bayman]

LOL! "Hot Berlin!" In my part of the tropics, add 90% plus humidity to your hot day! Good luck with the laptop. I love Swift 5. Compared to my old laptop, I keep checking my bag if it did not fell out by accident, it is so light.

[addictedtoediting]

Hi, 

I just bought a laptop with Intel Iris XE. 

However, fusion360 is using its integrated Graphics rather discrete high performance graphics. 

I have tried to force Fusion360 to use high performing discrete graphics by going to "graphics setting" and choosing high performance. 

And it is still not working. 

I hope the moderator can help me out as soon as possible. '

I am running out of time. 

Thanks, 

BengLoon