Intel i7 or Xeon

[Shyamscool]

I have attached 2 configurations below. One is of a laptop and the other is for a workstation.

Workstation Graphic Card: NVIDIA Quadro K5000 x2
Laptop Graphic Card: IntelHD Graphics 4600 and NVIDIA Quadro K5100M

My question is, How come the viewport for sketchup is faster and smoother on the laptop when compared to the workstation?

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[juju]

CPU clockspeed plays a role, SU doesn't really gain with workstation class GFX cards, SU isn't optimized that way

[Shyamscool]

@juju said:

CPU clockspeed plays a role, SU doesn't really gain with workstation class GFX cards, SU isn't optimized that way

I have noted that this is the same with 3DS Max as well. The view ports are faster on the laptop.

[juju]

to get the best out of workstation class GFX cards the software needs to be optimized for it, often you can get a special driver from either the GFX card company website or software website that will help augment the software on the workstation class GFX card, for 3DS Max there should be a driver that you can download that will help it make better use of the workstation GFX card

[Shyamscool]

Any more ideas?

[driven]

what are the relative screen resolutions?

size matters...