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Re: Using a Tesla M2090 for CAD

You won't get a benefit. The GTX 1060 is way more powerful than you would likely need for any FRC related CAD, but it's not a workstation card.

If I were you, unless I had a specific purpose for the M2090 I'd sell it and buy a quadro/firepro graphics card for SolidWorks. SolidWorks and most other CAD software uses OpenGL and video games almost always use DirectX. OpenGL stuff works way better on a workstation graphics card - you do a ton with even an entry level workstation card. SolidWorks is much more stable on a workstation card than a gaming card.

Something like an M2090 is really hard to take advantage of unless you really know what you're doing. MATLAB has pretty good support for doing lots of matrix operations with CUDA cores/xeon phi hardware, but something like SolidWorks can't really take advantage of the technology.

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