Graphics card Recomendations

Design_Studio

My organization is currently in the process of setting up a new ArcGIS Pro v3 workstation.

Are there any major advantages of purchasing a professional Nvidia RTX A4000 graphics card over a consumer Geforce RTX 3060 card for general ArcGIS Pro use?

These are the graphics cards that I am considering and need to select the best value to performance, taking into account the various price points:

12GB Geforce RTX 3060 - Around £450

10GB Geforce RTX 3080 - Around £750 

16GB RTX A4000 - Around £1150

I believe all these cards satisfy the DirectX and OpenGL requirements of ArcGIS Pro. Regarding the "General purpose computing on a GPU", all the cards support CUDA Compute Capability v8.6, which exceeds the v6.1 recommendation.

Is there anything that the RTX A4000 can do, which cannot be performed on a consumer RTX 3060?

Also, are there any ArcGIS functions that would perform significantly faster on an RTX A4000 compared to an RTX 3060?

RobertBorchert

You don't need a card as powerful as any you listed. 

The RTX A4000 is a good card but technically not as good as the RTX 3080.  The benefit of the RTX A4000 is that it is a single slot card.  And in that class is the one of the most powerful  cards in that class.

For my money I would go with the 3080. On my personal computer I have a 3080 Ti  and ArcGIS Pro runs like gang busters.