Please check back to the CATI blog as we will continue posting our series of articles that goes further into the details of each of our tests. ![]() If we look at the deltas going from 4 cores to 6 cores the overall cost difference was just over $1700 but the total performance gain was only. You can, by looking at our deltas, see that going from 2 cores to 4 cores was an overall cost difference of less than $750 but gained us an almost 65% total improvement. If you are utilizing the workstation for SOLIDWORKS Simulation Products, Photoview360 or other applications that can take advantage of multiple cores, then it may be worth the investment in a second processor to gain the additional cores. Im a full blown user of Draftsight professional for my day to day use and been using AutoCAD based 2D software for over 25 years. We recommend that before purchasing a new machine you evaluate your daily use to make sure you are getting all that you need from a single multi core processor. ![]() EDIT: I am a long time Industrial machenery design/drafter and used only AutoCad until 1996 when I began drafting in 3D modeling. The graph above reveals that when SOLIDWORKS is the only application running on a workstation, anything more than four cores is simply overkill. DraftSight is easy to use and is available for professional CAD users, students and educators to download and activate for free. Since SOLIDWORKS can only take advantage of 2 cores itself, the numbers of cores needed is determined by how many other activities the workstation is going to need to perform while SOLIDWORKS is operating. ![]() The number of cores that a workstation has is critical for use of SOLIDWORKS - but only to a point.
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