Best graphics card for Inventor. WIll a GTX work ?

[Anonymous]

Hello

I am customizing an origin laptop and i plan to use it mostly for CAD designs

The details are below but I am wondering about the graphics card, will an 8gb gtx 980 work well for the product design suite and inventor ?

Or would i need to get the 8gb quadro 5100 ?

I would get it but it cousts more than $2000 more, plus you cant use it to play games at all.

So is my graphics card okay ?

Thanks 

DESCRIPTION
EON17-X Pro
Details
Laptop Platform: EON17-X
Graphic Cards: Single 8GB NVIDIA GTX 980M
Processors: Intel Core i7 4790K Quad-Core 4.0GHz (4.4GHz TurboBoost)
Memory: 32GB Kingston HyperX Impact 1600MHz (4 X 8GB)
Operating System: Genuine MS Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit Edition
m.2 SSD Option: m.2 SSD OS Drive
m.2 SSD Drive: 120GB ORIGIN PC Approved PCIe m.2
m.2 SSD Drive Two: None
Hard Drive: 1TB Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive
Hard Drive Two: 1TB Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive

[SBix26 · Accepted solution]

Your card is not only okay, it is something to induce envy in most of us on the forum!  Inventor graphics are basically gaming graphics, so the extra $2000 would buy you nothing except product support.  (Disclaimer: this is not the result of experience on my part, just summarizing what others have posted previously).

Sam B

Inventor Professional 2015 SP1 Update 2
Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit, SP1
HP EliteBook 8770w; 8 GB RAM; Core™ i7-3720QM 2.60 GHz; Quadro K4000M

[cwhetten]

At home, I have been using a GTX 460 for years (practically a dinosaur now) since Inventor 2010, I think.  I am now using it with Inventor 2014, and I have had zero problems with it.  At work, I use a Quadro 2000, and while it does a fine job, I have never seen anything that would make me think that Quadros are better than GeForce.  At least for Inventor.  Maybe other OpenGL CAD apps would work better with a Quadro, but I doubt it.  These days, the GeForce cards have decent OpenGL support too, so I think this argument in favor of Quadros has lost its teeth.

Cameron Whetten
Inventor 2014

[blair]

I'm running the Classified 980 at work and love it.Now if we could get the CPU side of Inventor to utilize all the iCore7 cores we'd be really cooking.