https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/graphics-card-recomendations/m-p/1236071#M62818 <P>My organization is currently in the process of setting up a new ArcGIS Pro v3 workstation.</P><P>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?</P><P>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:</P><P>12GB Geforce RTX 3060 - Around £450</P><P>10GB Geforce RTX 3080 - Around £750&nbsp;</P><P>16GB RTX A4000 - Around £1150</P><P>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.</P><P>Is there anything that the RTX A4000 can do, which cannot be performed on a consumer RTX 3060?</P><P>Also, are there any ArcGIS functions that would perform significantly faster on an RTX A4000 compared to an RTX 3060?</P> Tue, 29 Nov 2022 18:15:18 GMT Design_Studio 2022-11-29T18:15:18Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/graphics-card-recomendations/m-p/1236071#M62818 <P>My organization is currently in the process of setting up a new ArcGIS Pro v3 workstation.</P><P>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?</P><P>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:</P><P>12GB Geforce RTX 3060 - Around £450</P><P>10GB Geforce RTX 3080 - Around £750&nbsp;</P><P>16GB RTX A4000 - Around £1150</P><P>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.</P><P>Is there anything that the RTX A4000 can do, which cannot be performed on a consumer RTX 3060?</P><P>Also, are there any ArcGIS functions that would perform significantly faster on an RTX A4000 compared to an RTX 3060?</P> Tue, 29 Nov 2022 18:15:18 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/graphics-card-recomendations/m-p/1236071#M62818 Design_Studio 2022-11-29T18:15:18Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/graphics-card-recomendations/m-p/1236373#M62854 <P>You don't need a card as powerful as any you listed.&nbsp;</P><P>The&nbsp;<SPAN>RTX A4000 is a good card but technically not as good as the RTX 3080.&nbsp; The benefit of the&nbsp;RTX A4000 is that it is a single slot card.&nbsp; And in that class is the one of the most powerful&nbsp; cards in that class.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>For my money I would go with the 3080. On my personal computer I have a 3080 Ti&nbsp; and ArcGIS Pro runs like gang busters.&nbsp;</SPAN></P> Wed, 30 Nov 2022 14:37:05 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/graphics-card-recomendations/m-p/1236373#M62854 RobertBorchert 2022-11-30T14:37:05Z