AMD vs. Intel for Inventor

[casey.fienberg]

I’m interested in buying a Lenovo laptop, and my primary concern is getting a machine that can handle doing CAD using Autodesk Inventor 2022. I’ve narrowed it down to a Lenovo P14s. My question is which of the following two options is better? (I’m getting 48GB of RAM with either option)

OPTION A:
PROCESSOR: Intel Core i7-1185G7 (3Ghz, 4 Cores, 8 Threads, 12MB Cache)
GPU: NVIDIA Quadro T500 4GB

OR

OPTION B:
PROCESSOR: AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U (1.9Ghz, 8 Cores, 16 Threads, 16MB Cache)
GPU: Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics

Pros and cons of each:

I’m pretty convinced that the AMD chip is better than the Intel chip overall. And it sounds like there have been some heat/thermal issues with the Intel chip causing hot areas and throttling. So the AMD seems to be the clear processor winner. But the one area where the graphics card seems to be important is in computationally-heavy applications like CAD (which I intend to do a lot of). And from what I understand, the AMD Radeon GPU doesn’t have a built in cache (is that true?) and therefore might really slow down my CAD work. Is that true? Is that enough of a concern that I should opt for the Intel option instead?

[Frederick_Law]

CAD software won't use all the cores on Intel or AMD.

What are you designing?  Huge 10k parts assembly?  Less then 1000?

Graphic card, nVidia for life 😜

If you don't do rendering, any (non-AMD) graphic card will do.

I run IV and SW on Dell E7240 laptop.

[casey.fienberg]

Designing less than 1000 parts assemblies, but also do rendering.

So to be clear, you think the Intel setup will work better for me?

[Frederick_Law]

I'll go for Intel and nVidia.  Make sure you get SSD.

[pcrawley]

Intel + nvidia for me too.  It is quite a generalisation to say "CAD software won't use all the cores" - there are several of areas of Inventor which do use all the cores.  But as an equally general guide, faster clock speed should be a preference over more cores because some functions can only use a single core.

Onboard graphics cards aren't a great option (like the Radeon option in your spec') - especially if CAD work is the primary use for the hardware.  They're built-in to the processor chip to make them cheaper, and you typically get what you pay for.

[swalton]

Both processors are listed on @Neil_Cross's benchmark here: https://invmark.cadac.com/#/

Filter by the processor name to see the results.

Based on my quick view, the performance of the machines might be a wash.