I have been quoted for a new pc to run Archicad18;
• CPU – Intel Core i7 4790 3.60 GHz, 8MB LGA1150
• CPU cooling system - the Intel Liquid Cooling System
• RAM - 4x Adata 8GB Adata XPR DDR3 2133 DIMM RAM (32GB RAM total)
• GRAPHICS - PNY Quadro VCQ600-PB 1GB Graphic Card – Display Port & DVI outputs
then an option to upgrade to an AMD FirePro W5000 (2GB) but at quite a cost.
I'm no expert and there are so many options listed by Graphisoft that I'm not confident which to select.
Is the PNY Quadro good enough? Is the FirePro just a 'nice to have' or essential. Perhaps there is another card I should look at instead?
My suggestion is to add more cores and install a graphic card with more memory and more Cuda cores - RAM is more than enough (for archicad I mean). I dont' know which software you are going to use to make rendering ... but You'll need CPU cores (in case of use of CPU calculation renderers) or GPU Cuda cores + Graphic memory (in case of use of GPU calculation renderers)