I would like to get some advice for the decision for a new PD:
How important is it to have a Geforce or Radeon graphics card? Or is an integrated card like Intel® UHD Grafik P630 in conjuction, with an i9 processor, also sufficient to have a good performance with CDR?
Regards
Rüdiger
Radeon cards are better bang for buck at the moment.
I've just changed from twin Geforce GTX 760 2GB to RX570 Radeon 8GB.
Reason being that to edit UHD video in Resolve needs 8GB of RAM.
I doubt that Corel drive the graphics card that hard. Anything reasonable will likely do for Corel.
The RX570 has stopped a real PITA refresh issues I was having in Draw.
@ $300 I'd put the RX570 or better as being good for Corel.
If you are using AMD processors then I'd say use AMD graphics cards.
You need to match the graphics cards to the processor and what upgrades you intend in the near future. I'd say the RX570 was enough for up to 16 processor cores. It seems with my testing here on 8 cores that it never gets far beyond 40% processor usage. If you are going beyond 16 cores then step up the GPU.
I've been keeping track of CorelDRAW performance and system configurations for decades. I regularly run 1.5GB files in memory. Configuration is a big deal if you do heavy lifting with your system.
I run an ASUS Main board, an i9 9900, a Samsung 1TB SSD, 64 GB of RAM, a 6GB NVidia graphics card (a true NVidia) as the core configuration.
Any AMD processor or Raedon video card is risky with CorelDRAW as is a Xeon processor. AMD for some reason in many systems has display refresh and complex file handling issues. Those who have been regularly successful with AMD systems are high level technicians and in every successful case it takes them quite some time, weeks to months. In some cases they use one driver for one software and another on a daily basis.
I have come to suspect that Xeon systems that have issues are lacking capability in the mainboard BUSS. However I have never seen one used as a graphic work station that I could examine close enough to find out, most of them are 3D rendering stations or servers although the i9 is displacing them in 3D.
The graphics card performance with CorelDRAW is significant part of the configuration. I only have 1 unit with an Intel on board graphics card and it's an i5 laptop. In my opinion with my work load any laptop is a non starter, performance for the cost fall significantly behind a desktop as does color image editing. The Intel UHD P630 performance is mediocre at best.
Make sure if you choose NVidia that it's a true NVidia card and not an NVidia chipset card. I would avoid top of the line gaming cards, if you use a laptop make sure you can disable the onboard graphics card in the bios otherwise many time Draw resorts to the onboard card. .
You can not judge any AMD or Nvida cards based on "last year's models".
It's more about "what were the computers Corel staff were using in development and testing"? I bet whatever the brand is they weren't more than a few years old.
There was some risk with AMD a while back, 15 years ago. AMD have held the best bang for buck position for at least 8 years.
Actually using CorelDRAW last years chips are where I recommend users look to build. Core users have enough trouble with Corel programming, they don't need to troubleshoot the very latest chips. The 6 month or 1 year old chips are very cost effective.
I've always thought, that if you are charging an hourly rate, that it is better to use a slower computer. What's the rush!