Dell Ultrabook and Revit 2020 performance

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Dell Ultrabook and Revit 2020 performance

Anonymous
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Hi

 

Below Dell XPS 15 Inch 7590 Ultrabook we are looking at getting for using Revit 2020.

 

Unfortunately our options are limited at the moment and with no workstations options.

Would these specs suffice for rendering in Revit or would performance suffer since this is GTX rather than workstation GPU such as Quadro.

 

Key Specs:

Dell XPS 15 inch 7590 Ultrabook

  • i5-9300H Quad Core up to 4.1GHz Processor, 8MB Cache, 4x Cores, 8x Threads
  • 16GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM
  • 512 M.2 NVMe PCI-e SSD
  • 15.6" FHD InfinityEdge Display 500NITS
  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB GDDR5 DirectX 12

 

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bill_gilliss
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For Revit 2020, see

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/S...

 

Also, for Revit 2021, look ahead to

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/S...

 

On both of those checklists, shoot at least for the the "Balanced - Price and Performance" configuration.

 

  • 16 GB memory is fine.
  • 512 GB SSD is fine.
  • The GTX card will be fine, since Revit doesn't render to the GPU, regardless of type -- it still uses the CPU. It's a great card anyway - renders in Enscape in real time.
  • The i5 CPU, however, is really not going to be optimal for desktop rendering, since you asked about that specifically. Any way to kick that up to an i7? I see that it's a couple of hundred dollars more. For a reason.
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Anonymous
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Thanks Bill

 

While the option for i7 in Dell is not in stock, there is Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme (Gen 2) with i7 that got slightly different / better spec.

 

Can you advise on this one? I'm guessing it has two GFX chips not sure if this is worse for GFX chip.

 

Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme (Gen 2)

-Intel Core i7-9850H (6 Core Processor 2.6GHz up to 4.6GHz, 6 Cores, 12MB Cache)

-32GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM

-1TB M.2 PCI-e NVME SSD

-Intel UHD Graphics 630 & NVIDIA GeForce 1650Ti 4 GB GDDR5 Max-Q

 

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dgorsman
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When you say "rendering", do you specifically mean creating image files?  Or just display performance during normal operation? 

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Anonymous
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Rendering as creating the image files. 

We have an old an machine that takes would take over 40 minutes just to render a simple desk with white background only using sunlight option.  Will mainly be used for renders of office spaces and custom furniture.

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bill_gilliss
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This looks pretty sweet to me: much better CPU, twice the RAM, twice the storage.

 

Again, Revit rendering uses the CPU, not the graphics card. (Revit 2021's much faster Realistic visual style does appear to use the GPU.)

 

If you ever plan to use Enscape, Lumion, or TwinMotion for real-time rendering, see https://enscape3d.com/community/blog/knowledgebase/system-requirements/. It appears that the 4GB NVIDIA card you mentioned meets the recommended requirements for Enscape.

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