CAD Mini ITX workstation: GTX 1660 Ti vs RTX 2060 vs RTX 2070

[DenvilX]

Greetings!

 

I have to create a Mini ITX workstation for CAD (Revit mostly) and have most of the build figured out however I'd like to hear your opinion/suggestions. The PC will be on 24/7 while real workload will happen for around 12h for 5 days a week (max load time per week).

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RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR4 16GB x 2 @2666Mhz

MoBo: Asus Prime H310i Plus R2.0

Drive: Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe 250GB

Cooler: Standart which comes with CPU.

GPU-2060; CPU-8700 - favourites.

 

My choices were GTX 1660 Ti / RTX 2060 / RTX 2070. Price per performance wise RTX card seem to be better with RTX 2060 being most appealing, but I didn't succeed to find sufficient information to verify, how better each of those is against other one. Only fact is that AutoCAD/Revit apps hugely benefit from VRAM but yet to understand the real world difference for 2GB extra from RTX 2070.

 

Thank you all a lot in advance!

 

P.S.

I've submitted original post on Reddit, there you can read the whole story.

Sister posts: CPU question; Case/PSU question.

[Fasauceome]

5 minutes ago, DenvilX said:

Sister posts: CPU question; Case/PSU question.

These will probably all be combined in "new builds and planning"

 

Anyways, my mini ITX senses tingled so I came as soon as I could.

[bimmerman]

Does AutoCAD/Revit recommend or benefit from a Quadro? Solidworks definitely does unless you do some registry hacking. LTT did a video on that exact subject, comparing consumer GTX vs Quadro in CAD applications, specifically Solidworks. I'd give that a watch.

 

I haven't used AutoCAD/Revit so I can't speak to their needs.

[DenvilX]

Just now, bimmerman said:

Does AutoCAD/Revit recommend or benefit from a Quadro? Solidworks definitely does unless you do some registry hacking. LTT did a video on that exact subject, comparing consumer GTX vs Quadro in CAD applications, specifically Solidworks. I'd give that a watch.

 

I haven't used AutoCAD/Revit so I can't speak to their needs.

It will, however the price/performance ratio ain't as great for particular use case. Nowadays in particular, quadro benefits come mainly from best support/cooperation with AutoDesk, whilest performance is on par and sometimes even below the regular "gaming" GPUs.