Is the Ryzen 8700G good for AutoCAD and SketchUp?

[Nhonho]

A friend asked me for a suggestion on how to configure a new PC for him to use with AutoCAD and SketchUp.

I told him that he doesn't need to spend money on a video card and that the Ryzen 8700G with its iGPU is already enough for these two applications.

He won't be using the PC for gaming.

What do you think?

 

[G777]

I have a laptop with a 7840HS, which is basically the same as the 8700G and it works fine with CAD software such as Solidworks and Fusion. I think your friend will be fine with the 8700G, and they can always upgrade by adding a graphics card later.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

AutoCAD is, and I think Sketchup is, lightly threaded and loves CPU clock speed. Neither program is graphics-bound in my experience. An 8700G should be plenty.

 

[QuietBob]

The Ryzen 7 8700G is an 8c/16t CPU well in excess of AutoCAD's minimum requirement of eight logical cores, whereas SketchUp will run on literally any CPU.

A dedicated graphics card is, however, recommended for either app. AutoCAD suggests a DX12 FL12_0 GPU with 8 or 12 GB VRAM and 106+ GB/s bandwidth, which the integrated Radeon 780M does not meet. SketchUP will be happy with any DX12 FL11_0 GPU, though a rendering plug-in will necessitate a more powerful card.

32 GB of system RAM should be the minimum on any workstation-class PC.

 

[damric]

A dedicated graphics card is, however, recommended for either app. AutoCAD suggests a DX12 FL12_0 GPU with 8 or 12 GB VRAM and 106+ GB/s bandwidth, which the integrated Radeon 780M does not meet.

Eh how do you figure it doesn't meet those? Even my 760M has more than twice that bandwidth and you can allocate as much VRAM as you want, I usually do 8GB.

 

[kapone32]

Eh how do you figure it doesn't meet those? Even my 760M has more than twice that bandwidth and you can allocate as much VRAM as you want, I usually do 8GB.

I put 16 on my 8600G. I am surprised at how fast these chips are. My 5600G is joke next to this chip.

 

[QuietBob]

Eh how do you figure it doesn't meet those? Even my 760M has more than twice that bandwidth

You're using an old version of GPU-Z which seems to be misreporting the specs. There is no way Phoenix could achieve over 100 GB/s memory bandwidth: