I'm going to buy a dell precision m6700, which GPU for it? AMD FP M6000 or Quadro K4000M?

Daniel Sudakov

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Well, Instead of building a computer for work....i found out that the Machine I'll be working with doesn't have a USB port lol.....

I'm going to work with Mastercam, and a small amount of solidworks. Maybe some other programs in the future, but all of them I guess will be CAD related programs.

So the laptop I decided I will buy will be a Dell precision m6700, with windows 7, 16gb of ram, 256gb ssd, and 1tb HDD. But the only problem I have picking is the GPU for it. It comes included with the AMD firepro, but then there's the nvidia side of quadro.

The firepro comes with 2gb of gddr5 memory, and the quadro comes with 4gb of gddr5 memory. I guess that's the only differences.

If someone has any knowledge about them, please give me a suggestion. I'm more knowledgeable in the GTX series haha.
 

Monica Grenty

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It's not only about dedicated memory, but also about drivers. I can tell you from my experience, while using quadro k4000m on my dell I had some troubles with working on 3dsMax (autodesk). Funny, cause I bought it for working with it easily. Happily, I found a driver which doesn't cause a damage for any of my software. I'm telling you this, cause you should be aware of the role of drivers; so look for information about these two gpus working with your software too.