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Originally Posted by Jared

For 95% of the CAD work most FIRST teams do, that video card is very overkill. An affordable ($200 range) workstation graphics card is all you really need for most modeling tasks. At this point, most reasonable computers are bottlenecked by CPU, not GPU, the opposite of most video games.

That said, if we have left over FC credits, I wouldn't be upset if our team grabbed one for the CAD stations.

Agreed that it's overkill. I'd argue for 90% of teams, a processor with integrated Intel HD graphics or a $100 graphics card is more than adequate. Most teams do not work at a level that would see any benefit whatsoever from this video card over one if the aforementioned solutions.