3D Modeling & Design – Do you REALLY need a Xeon and Quadro??

What exactly makes Solidworks work.. solidly? We test a whole bunch of hardware to give you the answer.

Buy a Quadro

Intro Screen Music Credit:
Title: Laszlo - Supernova

[Tuffenoughu]

This really really needs to have a 2021 follow up Linus! GET ON IT DAWG! We really need this now with the new cards and dump of the quatro lineup

[agr]

Can you update this video with 2020 hardware?

[baxterb]

Can we get a 2020/2021 update on this topic ? There is very little information out there

[TimvanHelsdingen]

Please rename this video to '3D CAD modelling and design'. Because in a regular 3D environment in a vfx or motiongraphics pipeline you're not going to benefit from quadro at all.
They have little to no benefit in maya/houdini/c4d/max.
Also if you are going to do gpu rendering you will need a nvidia card, because most gpu render engines use cuda. So AMD is out of the question there. AMD does perform slightly better on opencl so may be better for gpu based simulation loads (like houdini opencl nodes) But overall I recommend nvidia for that.
CPU workload for workstation I recommend higher clocked i9s over xeons due to most 3d applications not being fully multithreaded, your overal workflow will be faster on a faster clocked system then a high thread/low clock one (talking from experience here)
Your benefit on having a lot of cores will be rendering or heavy simulation (or having simulations run as background tasks while you continue to work) But for a workstation I'd then still recommend getting a lower core one and getting a extra few cheap ebay xeon rendernodes on the side.

[jonathanxdoe]

You should do a more "artist" friendly version of this video: with 3DS Max / Maya / Blender, Zbrush, Unreal, etc.

[Rickles]

It's amazing how hard it is to get real information about this kind of stuff out of companies like Autodesk. The problem is that they don't want to reccomend anything because no matter what you buy, their software will run like shit. Heyoooo... I'd like more content like this. An update with more software products would be cool.

[sijokxavier]

Please revisit the CAD system again. With the new consumer graphics card, we would love to hear your test results.

Softwares: Siemens NX, AutoDesk PowerMill

I use an old i5 with 8GB of ram and a gtx550ti for 3d stuff in Blender. Well, it really teaches how to handle resources :D

[Impractical_Engineer]

What happened to the Radeon Pro WX series?

[fernsbaronia]

Imagine having a really large channel where you can just ask big companies to give you stuff for free.

[vigneshkv]

@Linus tech tips, it's time to update your recommendation. Looking forward to it. Cheers.

[rushabjames]

Can you make such a video for Architecture in specific!
The net doesn’t have a good video on that topic and it covers a bigger spectrum of softwares

[TheBIMCoordinator]

It would be great to see an updated vid for this! Maybe testing out Revit.

[flintDx]

I'd love to see you guys redo this video using modern hardware (RTX; Xeon vs, say, threadripper; ECC necessity?). You took a hard CAD slant with this last video. How about the abundant creative community using software like Maya, Vray, Arnold, Zbrush, Substance Painter, etc?

[ciceropizutti]

This type of video should be updated every year. It's amazing how little information there is about Quadros or Firepros on youtube, and it's amazing the amount of people passing erroneous information all over the internet.

[michaeldagasso]

plz do a update by 2025, I figure by the time I graduate engineering ill build a proper workstation

[kittyrules]

Umm you totally ignored the WX cards, like why i wanted to see how they faired

[dsofe]

Most of this is really only valid advice for CAD designers/engineering students. A 3D artist, animator or game designer would be making quite a poor choice with 16GB or RAM and a P4000. Maybe the title could be a little more specific.

[SmaxyMiguel]

I love how he's talking about all these updates and in my old job we did SW of machine assemblies that can fit in building with +1000 parts with only a standard Dell precision laptob.

[DipenHansawala]

Can you please make new video with 2020-21 new hardwares?

Suggestion: make video in aspect of devlopers (.net, android, php etc..), web server handlers(devops), video editor (adobe after effect, premiere), graphics designers, 3d model makers.

You always make video for gamers. You should make video for productivity. And help them to build best pc to improve thier productivity.

This really help a lot for lots of people out thier. Suggest them best hardware that they can possibly buy (i.e. Mx master 3 mouse for devlopers and video editors).

I really hope that you will help them. 🙂