Workstation build

[victor.popL6VDR]

Hi,

I've been a Graphisoft user for the past 4 or so years and recently decided to abandon ship and hop on to Autodesk products. Mainly due to the fact that Revit has so much support from third parties compared to Archicad - but this is for another time.

My main issue with Archicad was it being very sluggish in large, complex files, while Revit seems to be much more well optimized for this.

At the same time, I'm thinking of buying two brand new workstations for the office. Budget is around $3500 each, including monitors (which shouldn't be more expensive than, say, $5-600).

That being said, I'm not very knowledgeable with Revit requirements for large projects, especially when you pair it with Lumion, Enscape or V-Ray, but my main concern is, obviously, the graphics card. I really don't know what should I choose between a 2080ti and a Quadro P4000 (P5000 is out of my budget).

Also, processor. I know people recommend Xeon processors, but let's assume I don't care that much about stability, I want raw power and very smooth performance when navigating through 2d and 3d, while renderings will be performed using the graphics card. Would a 9900k or 3900x be that bad compared to a similarly priced Xeon (or Xeons)?

Any recommendations or complete build guides?

Thanks 

[jvpantin2]

Hi @victor.popL6VDR, I think that only will be useful for you the community member's experiencie working with large models and the PC's specs used for that. In my entreprise case, we model interior architecture for buildings about 100.000 sq. ft. (very performance demanding because of LOD) but we don't use Lumion or V-Ray (occasionally Enscape mostly for fun), our PC's use CPU's Intel CoreI7 7800, 3.2 GHz, 16GB of RAM memory and  Nvidia Gforce GTX with 4 GB memory graphic cards. They are not all strong and fast we need but they do the job decently (I'd like to have a better graphic card). In fact, the most important tip I can give you is the use of SSD drives, at least with 500 GB of storage capacity.

My recomendation: buy a HP, Dell, or another brand PC with similar specs, with a graphic card tested for Revit, and a 500 GB SSD drive. Anyway, another community member will have a different opinion, so wait for more...

[ennujozlagam]

you can also refer here Autodesk System Requirements and see if helps. thanks

[jvpantin2]

Absolutely right @ennujozlagam. I suppose @victor.popL6VDR took a look on them before and wanted to know real experiences with any given setting.