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(OP)
I'm looking at a new laptop and I can choose from the following two graphic cards:

AMD Radeon HD 6990M:
- 2GB GDDR5 memory
- DirectX 11
- AMD HD3D technology
- AMD EyeSpeed technology
- AMD Eyefinity technology


GeForce GTX 580M:
- 2GB GDDR5 memory
- DirectX 11
- DVI Dual Link
- HDCP support
- HDMI 1.4
- nVIDIA PhysX
- GeForce Cuda technology
- 384 Cuda Cores

Will NX take more advantages of any of the technologies(Cuda maybe?)?

Any experience or thoughts of which of the cards that would be best for >=NX7.5?

thanks

Øyvind Seim
Product Manager NX
Summit Systems
 

RE: Graphics card

Keep looking! Neither of those cards are certified for use with NX.

I'm not saying they won't work becasue I have used Radeon cards with V18 and gotten better line definition than my Nvidia Quadro card on my work computer.

Start here at the hardware certification page: http://support.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com/online_library/certification/

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

RE: Graphics card

(OP)
Yes, I couldn't find them there, but not many new cards are there either... I don't know how often they update that site..  With the spec I am looking for, this computer is very close if one of these cards will work.

15.6" full-HD LED 1920x1080 matt screen
Intel Core i7 Extreme 2920XM quad core prosessor, 2.5GHz, 8MB SmartCache
16GB DDR3 SO-DIMM 1600MHz (4x4GB)
INTEL SSD 510 250GB
500GB SATA 7200RPM 2.5"

nVidia GeForce GTX580M 2GB GDDR5
    or
AMD Radeon HD 6990M 2GB GDDR5

RE: Graphics card

The Radeon and GeForce series of cards are designed for games, not CAD applications. You won't find any of these series cards in the certification pages.

The difference is in what the hardware is doing. Gaming cards are generating the images in DirectX and off loading the CPU. CAD uses Open GL, so the CPU has to do more work generating the graphics for the display.
 

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

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