i7-11390H Any good for a CAD a workstation?

[bigmaz2000]

a mate was looking at a mini PC with a i7-11390H, he uses mostly CAD software, is it decent enough?

 

[Tetras]

Depends what kind of work they're doing, if it is fairly light then sure, I guess so, but seeing as an i3-12100 is faster according to PassMark, it's unlikely to cut it for professional level work that hammers the CPU.

 

[jigger]

If possible set it to 35 watts and it should be reasonable. Tell him to try it, not happy send it back.

 

[Kurgen]

Depends on the CAD Software, but you "should" also have a discrete GPU. CAD software generally doesnt perform well with iGPU. even a cheapo 2nd hand Quadro can make a big difference.

 

[mattyfez]

It might be an 'i7' but it's a laptop processor.

Any reason why they need a mini PC as opposed to a regular atx pc?

Seems pretty big compromise to make unless you really need something small.

 

[Rroff]

The story with most of these kind of processors (and there are much better 10 and 11 series H processors in mini PCs never mind 12 series) - if you are only loading up 1-2 cores and/or only putting them under heavy use in bursts they are decent, load up most/all the cores under sustained workloads and performance drops off a cliff compared to a similar on paper desktop chip.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

tinkercad working fine here on a hp mini micro pc with i3-8100t