Hello! I just visited seven different tech subreddits to try to post this question, and laptop hardware recommendations were against the rules in all seven of them, so if this is still not the correct place, can you direct me to a better community?

With that out of the way, I am trying to purchase the Legion Pro 5i Gen 10 for first year Mechatronics, and while I am very proficient with anything software related, I don’t really know much about specific cards and their performance. This model that I am looking at has the following options:

Processor

  • Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 255HX Processor
  • Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 275HX Processor

Graphic Card

  • NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5060 Laptop GPU 8GB GDDR7
  • NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5070 Laptop GPU 8GB GDDR7

I have chosen to upgrade to 32GB of RAM for that necessary speed.

Does anyone here have any advice? Thanks.

Edit:

Found my school uses Fusion 360, not Solidworks, so I changed the title

  • JayleneSlide@lemmy.world
    5·
    8 days ago

    Most operations on CAD and solid object modeling software are single-threaded, so focus on single core performance stats… Even my largest models in Inventor don’t get my 4080 Super spooled up.

  • Dem Bosain@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

    You should ask this in a CAD dedicated subgroup. I’ve been running high-end CAD software (I-DEAS, UG NX, Solidworks) on low to midrange PCs since 2000, and never had any issues. I don’t know of any CAD system that supports the high-end features of the graphics cards you specify. There are some advanced rendering packages that might, but those cards aren’t necessary. You might just get your pretty picture faster.

    If you’re going to be running FEA or simulations, just pack as much RAM as you can. 32Gb minimum.