Upgrade workstation Quadro M2000 or M4000 advise please

[Ger21]

It says it uses DirectX (Direct3D), so I would think that a good gaming card would work fine. I'd try a GTX 970 or 980, for a lot less money.
I also don't think that toolpath calculation is GPU limited.
How old is your i5?

[Tom J]

3years old
i5-3570k 3.4GHz 4 cores

[Greeny]

The graphics card driver compatability page gives a more comprehensive list of tested cards including the m2000 & m4000 (the m1000 is not listed)
http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support...rdtesting.html

Might be worth trying the solidworks performance test. The listed results should give you a rough idea of what people are getting with similar systems to your current setup & if you added 2000 / 4000
http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/shareyourscore.htm

cheers

[Tom J]

M1000 is listed and is fine - this is mobile workstation

my concern is related to desktop workstation with i5
Simply do not want waste money on higher card if I won't use its potential.

[Greeny]

I'm aware your concern is with adding an m2000/m4000 which is why I suggested looking at the benchmark results for those cards, to get an estimation of the difference they make on otherwise similar systems.

I know it's not the answer you're looking for, but thought it might help give you a rough idea.

[m.marino]

You are using a mobile platform so my advise on this is rather useless. I use a D20 with a Quadro K4000 and a Tesla C7020 which gives me 9GB RAM plus being able to couple the GPU of the Tesla to the Quadro for rendering processing. SolidCAM is known to bog down non mobile workstations depending on config and RAM available. I am sorry but don't have a lot of info to offer.

Michael