AMD Processor

[Anonymous]

Hi,
in CPU's market appeared a new processor AMD Ryzen 7 1700X and AMD Ryzen 7 1800X.
Has anybody checked those processors ? Are they compatibile with Revit and AutoCad? Till last weeks Autodesk was recomending Intel's Xeons and i-Series.
Since a few days on Autodesk website (system requirements) you can see also in "CPU Type" field the AMD.

It's equally powerful processor as released by Intel Company (i7-6900k) but so much cheapper.

Could anybody tell me if Autodesk have tested new AMDs ?

Thanks a lot.

[dgorsman]

There is sufficient abstraction between the CPU, BIOS, OS, framework, and actual program that it generally doesn't matter about what "brand" of processor, motherboard, RAM, etc. is in use.  Video cards are another story, as is on-chip graphics hardware.  They interact with DirectX, driver software, and operating system.  If there's a problem, it will be there.

Autodesk normally tests with the "big box" suppliers (Dell, HP) and their available workstation-class hardware.  That's almost exclusively Xeon processors and Quadro/FirePro video cards.  So you won't likely see other components listed as "tested".  Note that not tested does NOT mean don't work.

[ronsarlo]

If you look at the Revit pc requiremennts documentation, it is not optimized for true multi-threadeded performance.

Unless I'm mistaken,
Revit is a 2 threaded application.

So your bottleneck is IPC "instructions per clock".

More clock speed, more instructions.

The Ryzen R5 and R7 are reaaaallly beast for properly optimized software that can fully utilize more cores of a modern CPU.

But still fall short of Intel's i5 and i7 line, Intel is still king for IPC and clockspeed.

Compatability-wise, you shouldn't have any issues.

But check a bit on 2 core performance benchmarks on Intel vs AMD before you buy.

[ToanDN]

Looks like Intel is still kicking in single-core performance, which is what Revit using for now.  On the other hand, if you  are using Revit along with posting in multiple social networks, generating memes, and creating YouTube video in the background then an AMD may not be a bad choice.

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-7700K-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-1800X/3647vs3916