Quadro Cards or Gaming Cards for Fusion 360?

[Cl4rkie]

Hi Internet,

 

In the school I work at we have a design studio running Autodesk Fusion, however we are looking to replace the machines in it to some more up to date ones. We have in mind what we want but cant seem to weigh up if a Quadro card is better suited for fusion 360 or a gaming card like a 3060. This is because I've seen people say that gaming cards can be better in some situations with this software but I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience with it?

 

Cheers.

[DalekSec]

Quadro's are designed for this, but nowadays you can get the driver packs for RTX cards that are more designed for 3D modelling etc.

 

Will be hardly anything in it tbh (at low end), but with enterprise PCs will more likely be a Quadro in it!

[robyholmes]

Fusion 360 doesn't use GPUs very well. Only really when rendering. It's more CPU and Memory that matter.

[Tones]

When we replaced our DT machines with new ones and we tested GPUs vs onboard and didn't find much difference using SFFs and GT1030s so we didn't use them in the end. If you were using AutoCAD or something then I think you would need them but Fusion doesn't utilise them that well from what I could see.

[PotNoodleTech]

I mean a GTX 1030 is barely worth fitting for these types of tasks- about 10% of the processing power that a more modern card has?

 

I think you'd be better off overall just going for better CPUs across the board if possible. Do some testing on one or two test machines and see what difference budget cards make to your workload.

 

The Quadro should be better but they are orders of magnitude more expensive for that power than the desktop cards.

[synaesthesia]

Considering power usage, physical size, more things to go wrong etc a decent CPU with built in graphics will be more than enough grunt for Fusion. Ryzen G series for instance should make short work of it.