Laptop or Mobile Workstation for Inventor
Sorry @iamerm I did see your private message about this, I now have 450ish videos on YouTube generating questions on a regular basis as well so it would consume me trying to give everyone what I would be happy to issue as a satisfactory answer. So what I tend to do is take the questions which aren't individually unique and circumstantial, and then respond with a video which would be relevant to and apply to a wide bunch of people, your question was one of those which applies to a lot of people.
So next week I should be getting my hands on the current 'best laptop for Autodesk Inventor' as I'm going through a workstation refresh where I work, so next week I'll have this laptop and able to test it out. But I don't particularly want to recommend it prior to seeing it for myself, especially after what happened with the Lenovo unit I recently received.
But anyway this is the one, and on paper it's one of the best spec lines for Inventor in a laptop:
HP Zbook G6 15
Intel Xeon E-2286M (8C, 5.0GHz)
32GB RAM (or whatever you need)
Nvidia Quadro RTX 3000 (or as Leo says, anything above 4GB VRAM)
SSD, Z Turbo Drive
I have no idea how a laptop chassis will handle the 8 cores of that Xeon but HP in my experience have been very good in the past, but I'm stopping short of passing judgement until I've seen how it does with my own eyes. I've got a pretty good point of reference now with the Lenovo P53 that I recently tested.
So if you can wait a couple of weeks, I'll need to actually get familiar with the laptop and then go through the video creation process before it surfaces on YouTube, but that's coming.
Well the goal posts are being moved on a regular basis regarding what "high number of cores" even means, 6 or 8 was deemed to be a high core count only a couple of years ago but since AMD stepped their game up... very soon we're getting a desktop CPU with 64 cores (ThreadRipper 3990X). So who knows what that even means now.
But to be honest, I think that advice regarding the frequency lowering as the core count increases could soon be obsolete, it was relevant and accurate for period in time but then things change. It's starting to become muddy now already when you look at the latest processors on the Intel Ark site, but because the highest frequency is on 8 core CPUs but 4 and 6 core CPUs still exist... it's muddy now.
Personally though I don't pay too much attention to the base frequency when specifying a PC for Inventor, I just make sure the turbo clock is good and as long as you're buying something fairly modern, the base frequency should be suitably set by intel. Good example, the laptop I'm sat in front of right now has a i7-1065G7 CPU which turbos up to 3.9Ghz but only has a base clock of 1.3Ghz, but this thing scores around 10.5 on the bench test and is a cracking a little powerhouse. So the base clock on something like this (Dell XP 13 2 in 1) is set low for battery efficiency, but then on mobile Xeons its set slightly higher because people tend to care less about that in mobile workstations.
