Archicad 21 on notebook with Nvidia MX150

[Anonymous]

Hi,
is Archicad 21 going to run on notebook with this parameters?:

CPU Intel Core i5-8250U
GPU NVIDIA GeForce MX150, + Intel UHD Graphics 620
SSD 256GB
RAM 12GB
Windows 10 Home


Thank you for your help.

[Laszlo Nagy]

This is what the Help Center says:

https://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/knowledgebase/83528/

Recommended graphics cards for laptops
There are professional cards available for workstation laptops, such as the Nvidia Quadro and Radeon Pro, that slightly under-perform from their desktop counterparts. We have also good experiences with most of the dedicated Nvidia’s GeForce cards, somewhat middling experience with AMD/ATI cards, and very bad experience with on-board (integrated) graphics cards. Definitely avoid the latter at the moment. Although integrated graphics cards (iGPU) are gradually improving in terms of performance, still perform quite badly for 3D demanding applications like ARCHICAD. At the moment, AMD’s Ryzen processors with integrated Vega 10 & Vega 8 graphics processors perform significantly better than the rest of iGPU solutions.

[Anonymous]

I know it's better to avoid integrated cards, but this laptop also has a dedicated card Nvidia MX150

[Laszlo Nagy]

It is up to you, you have to decide whether you take the risk or not.

[Anonymous]

But they write that:
"We have also good experiences with most of the dedicated Nvidia’s GeForce cards..."

So I think, that should work 😉

[Laszlo Nagy]

Ah, OK, I misunderstood you a bit here.
Yes, the MX150 is a dedicated card. My only concern would be that it is a pretty low-end one. It is based on the NVidia GeForce 1030, which is about 4 times slower than the NVidia 1060, so I don't know if it is powerful enough.

[Anonymous]

OK, thanks for your answer

What do you think about GTX 1050 (mobile - for notebook)? Do you think that is enough?

[Laszlo Nagy]

I usually look at GPU comparison charts like this:

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

According to this chart, the 1050 is about twice as fast as the 1030.

What I was looking at was the FPS rate of my card for a medium sized project as shown in this page:

https://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/knowledgebase/83528/

As you can see, with a 1050 you can get over 60 FPS for a medium project with around 1.5 million polygons in 3D. So I think if you choose the 1050 it will probably be good for years (if you are not working on projects with very high polygon count).
Personally, if I did not have money for the 1060 when I bought it, I would have settled for the 1050 and would have felt good about it.