Nvidia recommendations for a new laptop

Dear Rhino friends,

As I am looking for a new laptop, I’d like to have some feedback on the nVidia RTX A cards.
These are the specs: Dell Precision 5760 – LaptopCentrale.nl
I am not rendering in real time, but like to be able to open files with a lot of geometry and be able to rotate them well.
What do you recommend? I am happy to hear from you.

These are my current laptop specs:
Windows 10 (10.0.19045 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 32Gb)

Computer platform: LAPTOP - Plugged in [100% battery remaining]

Hybrid graphics configuration.
Primary display: Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 (Intel) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 1-20-2022 (M-D-Y).
> Integrated graphics device with 3 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display is laptop’s integrated screen or built-in port
Primary OpenGL: NVIDIA Quadro M3000M (NVidia) Memory: 4GB, Driver date: 3-9-2023 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 528.79
> Integrated accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Video pass-through to primary display device

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)

Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High

Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 3-9-2023
Driver Version: 31.0.15.2879
Maximum Texture size: 16384 x 16384
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 16384 x 16384
Total Video Memory: 4 GB

not sure about the current benefits the RTX A give over standard RTX…

I stopped bothering with quadro cards a while ago. Especially when using Rhino. To my knowledge there isn’t anything the quadro does within Rhino, a “gaming card” can’t.

So in my latest laptop, I went for max GPU ram (3080 mobile w. 16gb Vram) for the purpose of having many openGl powered apps open synchronously. I usually have 3+ Rhinos open and Photoshop, Blender sometimes, etc.

Have been very happy with the performance.

I think the RTX A2000 has only 12GB Vram. not sure it’s worth the “downgrade”

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Thank you very much for your reply dk2079

If I understand you well, the amount of GPU RAM is most important to you.
That’s valuable advice.