CPU or GPU

[Anonymous]

Wgen Inventor is crunching numbers for a large assembly, is it using primarily the CPU or the Graphics (GPU) processor?

[swalton]

As I understand it,  Inventor is bound by the single-thread performance of the CPU while calculating a large assembly. 

Take a look at some of the results from this thread http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/how-fast-is-your-inventor-pc-really/m-p/6577781#M614280

[Anonymous]

For Inventor CPU is more important.