Amd or Nvidia gpu for mechanical engineering student

Posted by Michael-A6@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 5 comments

I’ll be studying mechanical engineering my program involves the use of solidwork, cad, matlab, inventor, c/c++ and i also gaming. CAD and sw websites recommend quadra/radeon pro, but for undergraduate study i don’t think i can justify a professional gpu. i’ve built myself a pc with 11th i5 and 32gb ram

Nvidia gpus have CUDA cores and i’m curious if these engineering software will actually benefit from it?

On the other side, AMD seems to offer better price-performance ratio and better efficiency, like the 6750xt is on par with 3070 but within the price range of 3060 ti

Any help is appreciated

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P1atinumSword@reddit

Don't spend too much on a gpu, unless you are playing games on it. The models most if the guys I have seen the mechanical guys work on could be run on toasters. Just get an entry level functional gpu. I built a pc for my girlfriend who studies mechanical engineering with a 2700x and 1650 in it and it runs fine. Im an electrical engineering student and our software is even easier to run again.

MantecaconEmpanada@reddit

so the software of electrical and mechanical in general isn't really that dependent in neither of the specifics technologies of nvidia or amd?
I'm asking because i was looking to upgrade my gpu to a 6700xt or a 3060ti for gaming purposes mainly but i'm also studying engineering.

Thanks!