Question about autodesk inventor and dual gtx 1080's

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I recently got my 8 core cpu stable at 5ghz (overclocked) and I realised my gpu is my main bottleneck (The library I use has sketches on all the surfaces of metal parts that outline the whole part, and once I finished modeling half a robot, I was getting ~15 fps on a gtx 970), so I went out and bought two gtx 1080’s. My question is when running inventor, is it better to use an SLI bridge? Or should I have them run independently?

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And over here I’m CADding with my sweet integrated graphics card…

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Specs?

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Bad. It’s not a discrete graphics card.

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Oh, rip. Any ideas on my actual question though?

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Isn’t dual GTX 1080 a little overboard? Might as well consider Quaddro unless you’re into gaming. I’m happy with my 970 CADing.

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The library I use has sketches on all the surfaces of metal parts that outline the whole part, and once I finished modeling half a robot, I was getting ~15 fps on a gtx 970

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I can cad just fine on an Intel HD 5500 hahaha, seriously, if anything’s holding you back while doing CAD it’s RAM

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Ah, well I was running 16gb, and also bought 6gb more (24 gb total), so if it was an issue, its probably fixed now

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There’s no reason why you need an insane setup to run inventor for VEX. Depending on what you’re doing, your “main bottleneck” is probably actually accessing storage - or better yet just your familiarity/proficiency with the program in general.

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SLI… I don’t see why it would hurt…

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So I should get an ssd?

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Quaddro’s don’t run crysis 3 at 4k :frowning:

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Lol I don’t think you’re making this conversation to talk about autodesk, are you? (I’m joking)
In my opinion it shouldn’t matter, even with a videocard that good. I usually work on autodesk with a little 4GB RAM PC at school, and yet it does the job(It only runs about 1-3 tasks at once). The main question is why were you having such low framerate? Have you tried stopping unnecessary programs? If you are not able to, I suggest adding more CPU to your computer.

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Get 4 and set them up in RAID0. 1 pair for programs and OS (ie inventor & windows) and the other pair for media files (in this case your part/assembly files).

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Got it

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I only was running Skype, Google chrome, and inventor. It runs fine when I turn off visibility for sketches.

Uhhh, you mean ram?

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I’ll make a vid of it running terribly

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Kill Cortana. She eats unnessary ram on your computer