What should i buy between a Ryzen 7 cpu or a Intel core i7 cpu for a CAD design workstation?

[Ayrton Piuza]

Hey guys. This is my first topic posted in the forums.

So heres the thing... I just requested a quotation for a CAD Workstation and it had a core i7 cpu in the build, but the company i am buying it from said that the core i7 are out of stock for this year and they could give me a Ryzen 7 instead.

 

I have never used AMD Ryzen processors and so i would like to know what would be best for a CAD workstation between a ryzen 7 or i7.

 

Also i see a lot of people just getting general gaming gpu builds because QUADRO cards are quite expsensive and i would like to undestand how much of a difference does it make if i get a 1060 3GB OC edition instead?

 

I hope i was explicit enough.

[jj9987]

Budget? What i7 was it?

[voiha]

Quadro cards are not meant for gaming, but that doesn't mean you can't game on them tho. Same for GTX cards.
For CAD systems I advise getting Intel, as CAD and games generally work better on them. They don't scale with 8 core CPU's that good yet, and I don't see them doing it in the near future.

i7 8700K would be more than enough for your needs. If you want to take GTX 1060, better go with the 6GB variant, not the 3GB.

[Fasauceome]

19 minutes ago, voiha said:

Quadro cards are not meant for gaming, but that doesn't mean you can't game on them tho. Same for GTX cards.

Do you mean the other way around, as in GTX cards are means for gaming but can 3D model?

 

Ryzen will be great for 3D models. If you render complex things in blender, turn on cuda acceleration and the core count of the ryzen CPU along with the graphics card will help you a lot.

[aakopa]

8 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

Do you mean the other way around, as in GTX cards are means for gaming but can 3D model?

 

Ryzen will be great for 3D models. If you render complex things in blender, turn on cuda acceleration and the core count of the ryzen CPU along with the graphics card will help you a lot.

Quadros and GTX cards are basically the same cards. The difference comes in software, there are some specific features that only Quadro cards support in professional applications. But this is very application dependant, a lot of applications can do just fine without these. Quadro drivers also go through a lot more testing but how much this affects normal usage is arguable. Quadro cards can basically game just as well as Geforce cards, just look at the clock speed, architecture and cuda count, that determines how fast the card can game.

[JuztBe]

What software will you be working with? For example Autodesk Inventor uses only single core for most tasks expect for rendering (it fully utilities CPU). 

 

[Fasauceome]

2 minutes ago, aakopa said:

Quadros and GTX cards are basically the same cards. The difference comes in software, there are some specific features that only Quadro cards support in professional applications. But this is very application dependant, a lot of applications can do just fine without these. Quadro drivers also go through a lot more testing but how much this affects normal usage is arguable. Quadro cards can basically game just as well as Geforce cards, just look at the clock speed, architecture and cuda count, that determines how fast the card can game.

I know. It depends more heavily on the program being used to 3D model.