New PC spec for running Autodesk Inventor 2020

[washo]

Hi,

Can you spec me a PC that will be powerful enough to run Autodesk Inventor/AutoCAD 2020 comfortably?

I will be using this in a network environment and will need to include Windows 10 Pro. Budget is ideally around £1000, however can go up to £1500.

Inventor recommended spec is:
CPU 3.0 GHz or greater, 4 or more cores
20 GB RAM or more
4 GB GPU with 106 GB/S Bandwidth and DirectX 11 compliant

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/supp...-requirements-for-Autodesk-Inventor-2020.html

Thanks in advance.

 

[Danny75]

Looks like high clockspeed + IPC recommended but they now also have partial multi-core/thread support: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/cpu-core-utilization/m-p/8335825#M716716

Using max budget:

Spoiler

Alternatively; with for example a Ryzen 2700X, B450 Carbon Gaming Pro, CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Black, Phanteks P300 case; price comes down to £1150. Further tweaks possible.

Ideally you'd wait a couple of weeks for news on how good Ryzen 3XXX is, and if clockspeed + IPC competes with Intel. At the very least it's going to be faster than 2700X.

 

[EsaT]

Ideally you'd wait a couple of weeks for news on how good Ryzen 3XXX is, and if clockspeed + IPC competes with Intel. At the very least it's going to be faster than 2700X.

9900K beats 2700X by clear margin in Cinebench and there's that CES demo with Zen2 engineering sample matching 9900K at ~50W/30% lower system power consumption.
So I think matching 9900K is pretty reasonable expectation.

 

[Danny75]

9900K beats 2700X by clear margin in Cinebench and there's that CES demo with Zen2 engineering sample matching 9900K at ~50W/30% lower system power consumption.
So I think matching 9900K is pretty reasonable expectation.

Let's hope the engineering sample and the conditions have been replicated successfully on a big scale. Fairly confident that at least they will come very close, at which point paying approx £150-200 more for the 9900K would be pretty pointless.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

^^^
Zen2 was done on Cinebench R15, if done in R20 it wouldn't beat 9900k - but then its an engineering sample at lower clock speeds , and not overclocked (at which energy saving goes out the window - which is easily compensated for with a plat rating PSU )
Shame AMD havent done a demo with R20 since, but as above would hurt PR slightly if done on Engineering sample

least more common board vendors dont have active chipset cooling... roll on computex , boards look lush

danny's pretty much nailed it on the head, can go lower with Aorus Elite board if you want since VRM is the same ! though x570 boards are a tad better