Is AMD Integrated Radeon™ Graphics good enough for revit?

[Lucasmanya2809]

I already have a desktop pc, and it's a beast. But I need to buy a new laptop to do minor work when not at home; it needs to be budget-friendly. I found one in my price range with AMD Integrated Radeon™ Graphics, but I don't know if it will be enough to run Revit. I know it runs best with dedicated, but they are out of my budget.

[RDAOU]

@Lucasmanya2809 

An integrated AMD GPU can run Revit, but it’s not ideal.

Revit relies more on CPU power rather than GPU, but a dedicated GPU with good OpenGL and DirectX support will provide a smoother experience, especially for large projects, realistic views, and 3D navigation. Integrated GPUs (like AMD Radeon Vega or RDNA-based iGPUs) share system RAM, which can lead to performance bottlenecks. Hence, when navigation views in realistic mode, zooming...etc it will be sluggish.

If you are ok with that go for it

[Lucasmanya2809]

That's what I was thinking, I just want some confirmation and see if anyone has had an experience with it. If it's as you describe, I think I'm ok with it. The bigger tasks I'll be doing on my desktop, anyway

[mfaiqmansoor]

I have Laptop Lenovo T495 AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U with integrated AMD Radeon Vega 8 GPU with 8 GB DDR4 RAM and 256 GB PCIe 3.0 SSD. Excellent Performance for AUTODESK REVIT and SIEMENS TIA PORTAL. And Budget friendly. 

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadt/t495/22tp2ttt495?orgRef=https%253A%252F%25...

[HVAC-Novice]

A LOT in Revit depends on model size and detail level/complexity. 

In general a laptop isn't great. And iGPU isn't good either. One major issue with any iGPU is, it has much slower access to RAM since it uses the (slower and shared) system RAM. Normally that is DDR5. a dedicated GPU (dGPU) has its own RAM, and that typically is DDR6, or DDR7. Plus shorter physical distance to RAM. If you see a dGPU layout, the RAM chips sit literally next to the GPU chip - there is a reason for that.

FWIW, AMD iGPU typically is miles ahead of intel iGPU. They even have some APU (Accelerated Processing Unit, 8000-series) with relatively capable iGPU). You still have the above RAM issue. 

Whatever laptop you get, make sure it has actual cooling. Most don't and then the CPU/GPU throttle due to heat. The specs listed are meaningless if it throttles. 

[damien_cresp]

Do you use semi-complex realistic views with shadows on? How does revit perform? Is there any stutter or lag when flying around?

I'm considering getting a mini-pc with an iGPU, but I use realistic views a lot and I'm wondering if the new AMD range can handle it.

[mfaiqmansoor]

I AM USING  Laptop Lenovo T495 AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U with integrated AMD Radeon Vega 8 GPU with 8 GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM and 256 GB PCIe 3.0 SSD. I

have tried to orbit, zoom and pan the 3d model of the Snowdon Towers Architectural File, the LINK is given below. I have used visual style realistic with edges and detail level fine with shadows On. There was virtually no lag except a very little. The overall performance is fine. If you use AUTODESK REVIT 2026, the ACCELERATED GRAPHICS feature will offer much better performance than AUTODESK REVIT 2025.4. AMD RYZEN PRO and AMD RYZEN AI PRO both offer brilliant GRAPHICS PERFORMANCE. The AMD Radeon iGPUs will offer impressive and amazing graphics performance for almost any Graphics Workload.

The link for the Revit 2024 Sample Project Files is given below:

https://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-61EF2F22-3A1F-4317-B925-1E85F138BE88

AMD RYZEN PRO DESKTOP PROCESSORS LINK

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/ryzen-for-professionals.html

AMD RYZEN PRO LAPTOP PROCESSORS LINK

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/laptop/ryzen-for-business.html

If you need more help please let me know. I will be more than happy to help.

[luisPDAN6]

Generally the integrated cards will perform poorly when compared with GPUs with large VRAM size (and available VRAM). We talk on a magnitude of up to 5-10x on demanding graphic documents / views. 

You can see the results that come from real users, using Revit 2025 and 2026 on the following pages:

https://goto.archi/best-desktop-gpu-for-revit

https://goto.archi/best-laptop-gpu-for-revit

You can also test your current setup and get a % benchmark on how well your current computer performs compared with the previous test. The results are from 0% to 100%, being 100% the best computer ever tested, and 0% the worst computer tested.

You will do reasonably well on most views with an integrated card, but on demanding view it will perform extremely poor.

[johannabarge]

Would something like this mini PC be enough to use Revit if I'm not rendering complicated models? 

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/geekom-a6-mini-pc-amd-ryzen-7-6800h8c-16t-32gb-ddr5-ram-1tb-m-2-2280...

[mfaiqmansoor]

Greetings

Yes this Computer AMD RYZEN 7 6800H with Integrated AMD RADEON 680 GPU hass very good Graphics Performance for Graphics Intensive Softwares like AUTODESK REVIT, AUTODESK INVENTOR, SOLIDWORKS etc.

Thanks

[augustinojhunea]

what about Ryzen 5 with 2GB dedicated graphics cards

[mfaiqmansoor]

Yes AMD RYZEN APU with Integrated Graphics is very good for Graphics Intensive Softwares like Autodesk Revit, 3DS MAX, Inventor, SOLIDWORKS and almost any Graphics Software.

AMD RYZEN APUs with Integrated Graphics are very good at Graphics Processing, GPU Computing OpenCL, AI etc.

AMD RYZEN APUs with Integrated Graphics are also VERY BUDGET FRIENDLY

If you need more help please let me know. I will be more than happy to help.

THANKS