Can the GeForce GTX 1650ti (GDDR6) run 3D modeling softwares like AutoCAD and SolidWorks?

[puneethkumar]

Hey everyone Tech Newbie here, 
So a couple of weeks back I bought a premium laptop from Dell called the Dell Inspiron 15 7501 and I bought it for my uni's mechanical engineering program. Having in mind the 3d modeling software I'll be dealing with throughout the course, the specifications and build quality seemed to be in line with what I needed. The specifications of the laptop are as follows:- 
1) 10th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-10750H (12MB Cache, up to 5.0 GHz, 6 cores)
2) NVIDIA® GeForce GTX® 1650 Ti 4GB GDDR6
3) 16GB (8GB onboard + 8GBx1 SODIMM), DDR4, 2933MHz
4) 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive 

Coming to the quality of the laptop, the laptop boasts a full aluminum build along with really good thermal management with multiple vents allowing better airflow. Having briefly described the laptop, there was a certain doubt which arose on the laptop's GPU on whether it was enough to run 3d modeling software like CAD, Solidworks which as most of you already know are used widely in the mechanical engineering program. So I searched it up on many places to see on whether this particular GPU was powerful enough to run this software and I couldn't find satisfying answers (mixed review) as in some people suggest the RTX lineup cause of its ray-tracing feature, while others suggest the Quadro lineup and finally a few who agree with it stating that it worked for them even with an old I5 and an Nvidia 940mx laptops. I'm anxious about it and if it doesn't fully support this 3d modeling software I seriously don't see the need of having this GPU. I'm seriously not willing to game over it cause I want the laptop to be future proof. And yeh just to be clear I won't be using this software like every day but time to time practicals and I don't think it's gonna be high-end modeling so yeh please help this poor soul here.

 

And if you wonder why I didn't go with the RTX GPUs with then the answer is simple you can see that the specs are almost the same as the Dell XPS 15 (India) with the XPS being one of the best lineups of dell for all-round purpose and thus this laptop seemed to be perfect for what I need for college. 

[SupaKomputa]

Yes i think so, if it supports GTX (non workstation gpu - quadro / firegl), you can use any gtx gpu.

The difference might be the vram requirements, and obviously speed.

[Jurrunio]

Let's say you're not going to work with anything large enough to need faster GPUs. As for Xeons, Quadros, ECC etc, you don't need those either. Even in later years when you start doing larger projects, you will do that in groups and have access to the faculty's computers.

[puneethkumar]

13 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Let's say you're not going to work with anything large enough to need faster GPUs. As for Xeons, Quadros, ECC etc, you don't need those either. Even in later years when you start doing larger projects, you will do that in groups and have access to the faculty's computers.

Yeh, you're right you make a good point thanks :))))