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Answer» Hi,
I'm a new mechanical engineer (apprentice). I want to buy a used cad MOBILE workstation because a new one is to much pricey for me. I want an advice on what professional GPU is the minimum for middleweight mechanical assemblies in PTC Creo and Solidworks.
The current NVIDIA Quadro range with Lenovo starts with :
- Quadro T1000
- Quadro T2000
- Quadro RTX3000
- Quadro RTX4000
- Quadro RTX5000
The previous range is :
- Quadro P1000
- Quadro P2000
- Quadro P3000
- Quadro P3200
- Quadro P4000
- Quadro P5000
What is the threshold for good mid-range 3D CAD capabilities. I have a sentiment that 3 TFLOPS single precision is a minimum. Thus saying that P1000, T1000 are out of range. It is leaving the treshold with T2000, P2000 as a minimum.
Is that a good assumption? I would like detailed comments. P2000 and P3000 seems to be pretty similar DESPITE the numbering difference according to www.techpowerup.com. Is there an explanation?
According to what I just said, I saw these used mobile workstations on Ebay (under 2500$CA = 1900$US) :
Are they good for a mid-range 3D CAD (for a beginner)?
The last thing, I would like to classify the different workstation makers by reliability (Lenovo, MSI, Dell, HP, OTHERS?).
I like the sleekness of MSI, but I like the RUGGEDNESS of Lenovo...
Thank you!
Joel Lapointe
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