Nvdia and FIRST?

[Oblarg]

Originally Posted by yash101

That's a gaming card. It's not meant to paint excessive resolution images to the screeen. Those chips are meant to paint regular HD images to the screen really quickly.

The performance shouldn't be horrible, though. You probably have an i5 or an i7 (or maybe an AMD alternative)! The integrated graphics should be capable of running the program pretty well!

I'm not talking about rendering performance, I'm talking about performance while actually working in the application. It's slow and unwieldy at all times, and has always been this way on every machine I've ever run it on.

[tim-tim]

Originally Posted by Oblarg

If only I had a free solidworks license...

Apply under the FIRST section on the SolidWorks site. This is how we get our free licenses every season.

[Chris_Ely]

Originally Posted by yash101

That's a gaming card. It's not meant to paint excessive resolution images to the screeen. Those chips are meant to paint regular HD images to the screen really quickly.

The performance shouldn't be horrible, though. You probably have an i5 or an i7 (or maybe an AMD alternative)! The integrated graphics should be capable of running the program pretty well!

The GPU chips are actually the same in many cases and based on the same architecture, just optimized for different tasks. What makes workstation cards (Quadros) and gaming cards (GeForce) different is the drivers, build quality, and validation. The drivers of gaming cards are optimized for maximum frames per second (FPS), while workstation cards are optimized for image quality. Workstation cards also follow the reference design from the GPU manufacturer, ie. every card is the same. Workstation cards also undergo validation for hundreds of professional applications, which is why they cost more. The first 3.5 minutes of this video explains the difference well.
But you can still run Inventor on a gaming card. I run Inventor on my laptop which has a GeForce GTX 650m, a Core i7 @ 2.3GHz - 3.2GHz (Turbo), and 16GB of RAM. Inventor runs perfectly fine.

Originally Posted by Oblarg

I'm not talking about rendering performance, I'm talking about performance while actually working in the application. It's slow and unwieldy at all times, and has always been this way on every machine I've ever run it on.

The main factor in in-application performance is going to be the CPU clock speed. Autodesk recommends at least 3.0GHz. The RAM amount will affect the size and amount of parts that can be open and worked on at a time. The hard drive speed will affect how fast parts load and save. GPU and CPU cores will affect rendering times.

[Oblarg]

Originally Posted by luckof13

The main factor in in-application performance is going to be the CPU clock speed. Autodesk recommends at least 3.0GHz. The RAM amount will affect the size and amount of parts that can be open and worked on at a time. The hard drive speed will affect how fast parts load and save. GPU and CPU cores will affect rendering times.

I have a haswell i5 @3.4ghz, 16 gigs of ram, and a SSD. The hardware is not the limiting factor here.

The software simply is, as far as I can tell, poorly-optimized and clunky

[Chris_Ely]

Originally Posted by Oblarg

I have a haswell i5 @3.4ghz, 16 gigs of ram, and a SSD. The hardware is not the limiting factor here.

The software simply is, as far as I can tell, poorly-optimized and clunky

Interesting, I haven't found that to be the case. On most machines that I have used, Inventor runs just as well as every other program.

[yash101]

The main factor in in-application performance is going to be the CPU clock speed. Autodesk recommends at least 3.0GHz. The RAM amount will affect the size and amount of parts that can be open and worked on at a time. The hard drive speed will affect how fast parts load and save. GPU and CPU cores will affect rendering times.

Haha. I run on my netbook kith a 1.4GHz i3. It runs well enough for me to make decent CAD models, consisting of easily 100 parts!

[StillDefective]

I run it on my little i3 @ 2.53ghz laptop with no dedicated graphics and 4gb of ram. It isn't perfect, and if I work for a long time it eats up ALL of the ram and I have to restart, but hey, it works. Kinda

[Qbot2640]

Originally Posted by Oblarg

Not sure how much help this'll be if teams are running autodesk inventor - I've got a GTX 780 and it still runs like crap

If only I had a free solidworks license...

You can get as many free Solidworks license seats as you have registered members on your team...just ask:

www.solidworks.com/FIRST

[AndreaV]

It looks like this thread turned into a "gpu's, cpu's, and cad" discussion. If you look at the video posted, it actually mentions the Jetson tk1, a dev kit aimed at vision processing and robotics.

http://www.techradar.com/news/comput...ev-kit-1249739

At $200 it's first legal. I can see this being included in the kit or available through first choice.

"Now powering the next era of robotics"

[Uniwersel]

Originally Posted by AndreaV

It looks like this thread turned into a "gpu's, cpu's, and cad" discussion. If you look at the video posted, it actually mentions the Jetson tk1, a dev kit aimed at vision processing and robotics.

http://www.techradar.com/news/comput...ev-kit-1249739

At $200 it's first legal. I can see this being included in the kit or available through first choice.

"Now powering the next era of robotics"

Nvidia even mentioned FRC in one of their overviews with Newegg: http://youtu.be/XmnM7ikhY1s
It would be super cool to see something like this in the KOP.