Gaming GPU for solidworks?
Hi everyone! I’m a 4th-year Mechanical Engineering student looking for a new laptop, as my current one unfortunately isn’t going to make it through my final year.
I need something that can handle SolidWorks for school projects and occasional personal projects. I don’t expect to work with extremely complex parts or large assemblies, but I will occasionally be doing FEA. I also don’t care much about shadows or other advanced graphics settings in SolidWorks.
I’m leaning toward a gaming laptop since there are more options within my budget, and I’d also like to do some light gaming. However, I’ve heard that gaming GPUs can sometimes cause issues with SolidWorks.
Does anyone have experience using a gaming GPU with SolidWorks, particularly an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50-series GPU? How well does it work for modeling and occasional FEA?
For context, I’ve been running SolidWorks on a Surface Pro 7 for the past few years without a dedicated graphics card and I haven’t experienced any graphics-related errors—only performance limitations.