The SketchUp to LayOut Book Download the Table of Contents. The SketchUp to LayOut book is the essential guide for woodworkers, carpenters, architects. Quadro vs. Ge. Force The Best for Auto. Cad, Solidworks, Sketchup, CS6 Quadro vs. Ge. Force Whats Best for an Auto. Cad Solidworks Sketchup Adobe CS Workstation Round 1. Mates,As I moved from 2. D to 3. D CAD in 2. Dell Precision T5. Xeon x. 54. 60 Quad Core 3. GHz, 4. GB RAM upgraded to 1. GB, Quadro FX 5. TB Barracuda, Vista Business 6. Windows 7 Ultimate 6. I was unprepared for the complex decision of which graphic card would be best suited for the applications I use Auto. Cad 2. 00. 7, Sketchup now 8 Pro, Solid. Works 2. 01. 0 x. Corel Technical Designer X 5, and Adobe CS4. Quadros were and are almost universally praised for their 2. D CAD capabilities and Autodesk and Solidworks have provided specialized drivers to optimize performance of their software using Quadros. However, it occurred to me that the lesser 3. D performance of Quadros as compared to Geforce GTX should be considered as I work then and now more in Sketchup and other 3. D applications and with large files 8. MB. I am learning Revit, a 3. D program with big files and a lot of rendering power needed. The more I learn about rendering, the more I see the need for a very high performance computer CPU, GPU. Mempry, and disk all have to be great. Because the graphics performance is so essential to fluent use of the applications I use, it seemed to me, one of the best ways to choose a graphics card is to visit the sites of the applications you intend to use and look into their recommendations for the most demanding version of their applications. Also, nvidia, which makes the chips and drivers for both Geforce and Quadro offers drivers that are partnered for specific use you can get a specific Solidworks x. Autodesk and I think Archi. Cad, do this as well with Autodesk having tested cards with subsequent recommendation and certification. When I use the T5. Auto. Cad 2. 00. 7 with a Geforce GTX 2. I had a periodic message, This computer has non certified hardware or similar error message, no doubt referring to the GTX card. Quadro vs. GeForce Whats Best for an AutoCad Solidworks Sketchup Adobe CS Workstation Round 11,3491. Mates,As I moved from 2D to 3D CAD in. SketchUp is 3D modeling software thats easy to learn and incredibly fun to use. Download SketchUp today for free and get started drawing in 3D. Sketchup Style' title='Sketchup Style' />The Autodesk application I think is the most demanding is the Product Design Suite Ultimate, a vast program which includes Auto. Cad, Mechanical Inventor Pro with simulation, 3ds Max, Mudbox, Electrical, and much more. Ive read that Mudbox is quite demanding though Autodesk only mentions the need for Open GL support for that application. Maya is another heavy resource program lots of rendering, lots of polygons. You need 6. 0GB HD space and something over 1. For 3. D modeling the minimum system is amazingly, a Pentium 4, 3. GHz and 4. GB RAM, or 8. Gb for large assemblies. Sketchup Style' title='Sketchup Style' />The recommended cards include ATI Firepros, but mainly Quadros. I was interested to see that Autodesk still recommends the old Quadro FX 5. MB card I now use in my old Dell Optiplex 7. AMD X2 6. 00. 0, 3. GHz, 6. GB, WD 7. GB a card which I see on Ebay for as little as 3. The Quadro FX X8. XX cards are all there 1. Geforce. In less demanding applicati. Auto. Cad 2. 01. 3 still having a lot of 3. D capability the old series Quadros such as FX 3. Bay, 5. 80 3. 5, 1. Geforce 2 series GTX 2. Useful guides for graphics cards may be found in Wikipedia under Quadro and Comparison of nvidia Geforce, listing the specifications of those lines of graphics cards. See http en. ComparisonofNvidiagraphicsprocessingunits See http en. Quadro I was struck in the Quadro list by the specs of the FX 5. GB, and so on, all for only 2,7. Quadros until the 6. GB FX 6. 00. 0 over 3,0. However, there is a note on this listing that the GPU and specification except memory the GTX 2. GB, instead of 4 is shared with the Geforce GTX 2. I could buy a lightly used GTX 2. Bay for 1. 40, that too seemed a no miss choice. I also then believed that it was possible to soft mod the GTX 2. Quadro 5. 80. 0, but of course learned later that that trick was by then no longer allowed by nvidia. After installing Windows 7 Ultimate 6. I installed the GTX 2. T5. 40. 0 and put the Quadro FX 5. Dell Dimension 8. Pentium 4 6. 30 3. GHZ, 3. GB, ATI Radeon 9. GB Seagate, XP Pro 6. CPUs, the hyperthreading Prescott single core which read in Device Manager as two cores. Then I discovered Passmark Performance Test and surprise and disappointment. The T5. 40. 0 with the GTX 2. D score was only 3. D score as 2. 20. Strangely, The Dimension 8. Aua Update Series Pdf on this page. RAM has an overall mark of 4. D was 4. 44 and 3. D 2. 61. In 2. D, the 5. MB Quadro FX 5. 80 on a single core CPU was outperforming by nearly 5. GB GTX 2. 85 on a quad core Xeon computer that new cost about 9,0. D Given the relatively low 3. D score of the FX 5. I learned then that Quadros of that era were indeed 2. D specialists, but the much lower 2. D score of the GTX on the T5. To make a long story 2. I eventually learned that the Windows 7 Classic and Aero themes Id tried were killers of 2. D performance, at least on this T5. Turning to the nasty baby blue Windows 7 Basic theme, the 2. D score of the T5. D improved from 2. The overall rating of the 5. How To Install En Focus Pitstop Pro Torrent'>How To Install En Focus Pitstop Pro Torrent. I have never read of anyone else reporting the severe performance penalty of the Win 7 Classic and Aero themes, but there we are. This event made we wonder about all the other discreet performance hogs lurking in all the helpful fuzzy bears background program and Ive become an obsessive Task Manager watcher right click on the Task Bar to see what the CPU and memory is up to at any given moment. As Ive used the T5. I began to be dissatisfied with the performance in Sketchup, which I was using more and more in ever larger files. As the models became large, each time I changed the viewpoint, the wait to regen was frustrating. I use Sketchup too casually that is not very systematically, not taking full advantage of layers and components, and consequently, waiting to regen a view with shadows on a 1. MB model seemed to take forever. I did learn that view regens depend on the amount of geometry that is visible, so I learned to navigate over the model in plan or around the edges and then zoom in to the position I wanted at the very last so that the least amount of 3. D trees and other polygon rich objects were visible. It even helps to always save the drawing in a view with little geometry visible. Also, a big performance help is to add trees and any complex imported 3. D models at the last minute when everything else is finished and still place them on a layer that can be turned off. For general working, display in monochrome, and definitely, do not turn on shadows until you need to test views for rendering or 2. D image export. When navigating, keep the model in constant motion artificially moving it about, or it will freeze and begin to fill in all the complex geometries. Last month December, 2. I was planning a Solidworks assembly of 6,0. I decided to try a higher level Quadro again. Searching the specification charts, I was again immersed in the morass of Quadro precision and specialized application drivers vs. Geforce 3. D speed and at much lower cost. Interestingly, the newer Quadros seemed to have changed their emphasis from 2. D to 3. D performance in accordance with the extreme shift, especially in architectural CAD to 3. D applications like Revit. After some research, which showed the FX 4. GB, 1. 92 CUDA cores producing stunningly good results in Solidworks and interestingly, this card was optimizied also for Adobe CS4, I found a relatively low hours one about 1. Precision T3. 50. Bay for 1. 50. The FX 4. The Quadro 4. 80.