I need some advice regarding a recent purchase of RTX 4070 laptops for our engineering team. We've got over 300 engineers relying on stable software environments, but our asset manager mistakenly ordered these RTX cards instead of RTX 3000 Ada ones, and now all sales are final from the vendor. I'm tasked with deciding if these laptops can be distributed, despite the risk of running unsupported graphics cards in a professional setting. How risky is it to deploy these RTX 4070s, considering our engineers can identify the differences in GPUs? The Director and CFO are concerned about wasting $160,000 and have left the decision up to me, and I really don't want this to backfire.
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While those RTX cards might work fine generally, they’re not certified for professional use in AutoCAD. You might risk being blamed if something goes wrong, especially since you’ll have to sign off on this. It really sounds like the asset manager might have made a mistake this time.
It's definitely a slippery slope. If the manufacturer doesn’t support the RTX 4070 cards, that could lead to problems when your engineers run into issues later. I wouldn't approve this without written confirmation about the risks. Just a heads up, if anything goes wrong, you could end up being the scapegoat.
The RTX 4070s aren't certified for software like AutoCAD. That said, many use GeForce cards in CAD environments without major issues. Just remember, issues can arise that you won't be able to get support for if you're using unsupported hardware. You might want to push for someone higher up to take responsibility for this choice.
Exactly! It's probably best to verify with AutoCAD’s guidelines before proceeding. Can't hurt to be thorough.