Revit with K620

[tlarsonAHS]

Hello everyone. I am Tom, a design teacher in Hanover County, Virginia. My computer lab recently has been updated and so I am learning/playing with the new computers to see how well they work with Revit, Inventor, Maya and various other programs.

One aspect that my students and I have been using for years is the Raytracing tool for Revit. This create awesome renders for my students who display their work on their own portfolio websites. However, I noticed that when I attempted to utilize this feature, it was not available. After reading many... many posts about this, I decided to look for dedicated graphics card (since these computers are AMD and do not have discrete). I bought a PYN K620 Graphics Card Quadro for this job and popped it in my main computer station (along with an addition 8gb RAM). Once again, the raytracer is no where to be seen.

I would like advice about this now before I spend any more of my funding. Is there a way to utlize the graphics card I got for this purpose?? 

HP EliteDesk 705 G3 Small Form PC

• Windows 10 Pro Education
• AMD Pro A6-8570 R5
• 8 gb RAM (16 gb teacher)
• AMD Radeon R5 Graphics (PNY k620)
• HP V244h Monitor

[ToanDN]

Ray Trace is available when you are in a 3D view.  The videocard only affects the performance, not the availability of the tool.

[dgorsman]

The graphics card handles what's on screen, it doesn't handle any of the rendering stuff as the available renderers for Revit (and Maya, and Inventor) are all CPU based.  Don't get too hung up on using a Quadro video card, as it's no longer mandatory for all those programs (completely irrelevant in Inventor, actually); the newer 1050/1060/1070 consumer/gaming cards do quite well in those applications.  If you've got "small form factor" boxes that will really limit your options of what can be stuffed in there.

FYI, 8 GB RAM is *light*, even for a school computer.  If you're going to be using the listed programs you should be starting at 16 GB.