Intel® Core™ i7-6650U Processor (4M Cache, up to 3.40 GHz) Specifications
This is the graphics card on the Surface Pro 4 512GB memory/16GB RAM model.
Will it run SW2015 without any issues?
Intel® Core™ i7-6650U Processor (4M Cache, up to 3.40 GHz) Specifications
This is the graphics card on the Surface Pro 4 512GB memory/16GB RAM model.
Will it run SW2015 without any issues?
Hi Chris,
Yes I did. It gives the Intel chips as;
HD Graphics P4000
HD Graphics P4600
HD Graphics P530
Iris Pro Graphics P6300
None of these are this Intel® Core™ i7-6650U Processor (4M Cache, up to 3.40 GHz) Specifications as far as I'm aware?
I teach kids aged 13-18 graphics but it's mostly board drawings. I'd do very little Solidworks and what I do would be fairly basic. The most parts any of our assemblies would be have is 10. Maybe 2-3 hours a week is all I'd be on SW.
I'm thinking therefore that the intel chip above that comes with the MS Surface Pro 4 would be capable of the bit I'd need it to do?
Thanks for your response.
Gavin
Short answer is you don't really want to be running SolidWorks on it because it's not one of the SolidWorks compatible graphics cards (Quadro line etc).
Practically though, i've been running SolidWorks on an old GTX 260 and it hasn't had any issues for low level work, so you might get lucky.
I really doubt that an inbuilt graphics card is going to be powerful enough to handle more than the very basic SolidWorks tasks.
TL&DR: There will be issues in terms of performance and compatibility, to the best of my knowledge at least.
Hi Thomas,
"I really doubt that an inbuilt graphics card is going to be powerful enough to handle more than the very basic SolidWorks tasks"
That's the thing, I wouldn't be doing anything more than basics.
As mentioned above I teach kids aged 13-18 graphics but it's mostly board drawings. I'd do very little SolidWorks and what I do would be fairly basic. The most parts any of our assemblies would have is 10.
I'd say 2-3 hours a week (32 weeks a year) is all I'd be on SW.
I'm thinking therefore that the intel chip in my initial question that comes with the MS Surface Pro 4 would be capable of the bit I'd need it to do?
Thanks for your response.
Gavin
It might work, as long as you keep to small scale parts and are okay without some of the cosmetic things like realview graphics.
Would be a tad slow at points though, I'd suspect.
Have you checked here?
http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/videocardtesting.html