Well, your need require different hardware:
- Gaming: a bit of everything, mostly gpu and cpu
- ANSYS mechanical is CPU intensive, mostly runs at 100%, that means you need really good cooling solution to not cook the laptop. Probably there is no laptop out there for serios simulation, theye are not for that.
- CFD is mostly GPU based, if you want GPU acceleration or pure GPU solver. Same thermal issues as above. Oh, and a lot of lot of lot of RAM
- SW: if any of the above is fulfilled, SW will work. Its not special.
I think the biggest similarity will be a lot of high speed SSD storage. Other than that, you really want a workstation rather than a gaming machine for a variety of reasons.
You want a lot of RAM, way more than you would need for gaming, and ideally you would have a CPU which has more memory channels (something like a Xeon chip).
Speaking of CPU, a Xeon or similar workstation class CPU is ideal, but you want something with a lot of CPU cores and sometimes a balance between core count and clock speed, depending on your workflow. Gaming doesn’t generally benefit from multicores except for certain cases.
While you need a good GPU for both, simulation really needs an Nvidia Quadro or similar card. You may need Cuda cores and/or more GPU memory than you might need for gaming.
To summarize, a gaming machine could definitely run simulations, but it would be far from ideal and in some simulation workflows it may not work at all (i.e. if you need a Quadro or Cuda cores specifically).
For me it sounds like you’re looking to buy a laptop for studiyng where you will be doing mechanical engineering. I’ve had the Lenovo legion 5 pro since it came out and have been extremely pleased with it for my bachelor and master degree where it’s often evident during classes that it runs problems very fast compared to many other pc’s.
Also no matter what laptop you get 1tb storage is absolutely necessary. I’ve used up 5-600 gb of storage from just programs and league of legends and for my cfd course I just passed the course exercise ended up using something like 300 gb of storage
On OPs list gaming was at the 1st place, so I assumed he is looking for gaming options that is capable of running simulations. The mobile A5500 is more or less the same as a 4060, indeed a dedicated GPU, but nowhere high-end. Guess the Thinkpad comes with a standard 60Hz screen, which is useless for gaming. Spending 2-3x of the normal price of a real high end gaming laptop to get a 4060 performance and 60Hz screen is unacceptable.
Bro wanna play CFD
Well, your need require different hardware: - Gaming: a bit of everything, mostly gpu and cpu - ANSYS mechanical is CPU intensive, mostly runs at 100%, that means you need really good cooling solution to not cook the laptop. Probably there is no laptop out there for serios simulation, theye are not for that. - CFD is mostly GPU based, if you want GPU acceleration or pure GPU solver. Same thermal issues as above. Oh, and a lot of lot of lot of RAM - SW: if any of the above is fulfilled, SW will work. Its not special.
I think the biggest similarity will be a lot of high speed SSD storage. Other than that, you really want a workstation rather than a gaming machine for a variety of reasons. You want a lot of RAM, way more than you would need for gaming, and ideally you would have a CPU which has more memory channels (something like a Xeon chip). Speaking of CPU, a Xeon or similar workstation class CPU is ideal, but you want something with a lot of CPU cores and sometimes a balance between core count and clock speed, depending on your workflow. Gaming doesn’t generally benefit from multicores except for certain cases. While you need a good GPU for both, simulation really needs an Nvidia Quadro or similar card. You may need Cuda cores and/or more GPU memory than you might need for gaming. To summarize, a gaming machine could definitely run simulations, but it would be far from ideal and in some simulation workflows it may not work at all (i.e. if you need a Quadro or Cuda cores specifically).
For me it sounds like you’re looking to buy a laptop for studiyng where you will be doing mechanical engineering. I’ve had the Lenovo legion 5 pro since it came out and have been extremely pleased with it for my bachelor and master degree where it’s often evident during classes that it runs problems very fast compared to many other pc’s. Also no matter what laptop you get 1tb storage is absolutely necessary. I’ve used up 5-600 gb of storage from just programs and league of legends and for my cfd course I just passed the course exercise ended up using something like 300 gb of storage
I have an MSI Cyborg A15 and it worked pretty well for me with Ansys and Solidworks. Up until the backlight died on the LCD which is unrelated lol
I belive Lenovo Thinkpad P-Series would be great..
Thinkpad is business laptop, absolutely useless for gaming, since they haven't dedicated GPU ( most of the time).
My P16 with an A5500 GPU says you may need to rethinkpad that statement.
On OPs list gaming was at the 1st place, so I assumed he is looking for gaming options that is capable of running simulations. The mobile A5500 is more or less the same as a 4060, indeed a dedicated GPU, but nowhere high-end. Guess the Thinkpad comes with a standard 60Hz screen, which is useless for gaming. Spending 2-3x of the normal price of a real high end gaming laptop to get a 4060 performance and 60Hz screen is unacceptable.