32-Bit Autodesk Revit Architecture
- Microsoft® Windows® 7 32-bit Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium; Microsoft® Windows Vista® 32-bit (SP2 or later) Enterprise, Ultimate, Business, or Home Premium; or Microsoft® Windows® XP (SP2 or later) Professional or Home*
- Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ dual core, 3.0 GHz (or higher) with SSE2 technology for Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit or Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit (SP2 or later). Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual core, 1.6 GHz (or higher) with SSE2 technology for Microsoft Windows XP (SP2 or later)
- 3 GB RAM <== Way too Low!!
- 5 GB free disk space
- 1,280 x 1,024 monitor with true color
- Display adapter capable of 24-bit color for basic graphics; 256 MB DirectX® 9-capable graphics card with Shader Model 3 for advanced graphics. Find out more about recommended graphics hardware.
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 (or later)
- Microsoft Mouse-compliant pointing device
- Download or installation from DVD
- Internet connectivity for license registration
64-Bit Autodesk Revit Architecture
- Microsoft® Windows® 7 64-bit Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium; Microsoft® Windows Vista® 64-bit (SP2 or later) Enterprise, Ultimate, Business, or Home Premium; or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional x64 edition (SP2 or later).*
- Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ dual core, 3.0 GHz (or higher) with SSE2 technology for Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit or Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit (SP2 or later). Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual core, 1.6 GHz (or higher) with SSE2 technology for Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 edition (SP2 or later)
- 3 GB RAM <== Way too Low!!
- 5 GB free disk space
- 1,280 x 1,024 monitor with true color
- Display adapter capable of 24-bit color for basic graphics; 256 MB DirectX® 9-capable graphics card with Shader Model 3 for advanced graphics. Find out more about recommended graphics hardware.
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 (or later)
- Microsoft Mouse-compliant pointing device
- Download or installation from DVD
- Internet connectivity for license registration
Performance Recommendations
- Microsoft® Windows® 7 64-bit Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium
- Quad Core Intel® Xeon® Processor (2.50 GHz, 2X6M L2, 1333) or equivalent AMD processor
- 8 GB RAM (or more) <== Still too Low??? I think so.
- 1,280 x 1,024 monitor with true color
- 1 GB (or more) DirectX® 9-capable graphics card with Shader Model 3. Find out more about recommended graphics hardware.
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You feel 8 GB RAM is too low? I haven’t worked on any monster projects, but 8gb has handled everything I’ve thrown at it since 64-bit was first released…
I have seen large projects, multistory hospital bed towers fail with 8 megs and we bumped it up to 12 on newer machines. I agree – these are very large projects and most will not encounter troubles with 8megs.
Do you ever reach a point where the cost of a workstation needed to run the software is too high and the software needs to be toned down?
Matt, You bring up a valid point. It is a case by case call. Not only do you have the cost of the design software, but also the hardware. Let’s not forget training, short term loss of productivity (which may not last long), incompatability with other firms and more.
This can get really expensive.
Hi,what about 2GB NVIDIA Quadro 4000 will it support Revit Architecture 2012
Madhan,
Check the list on the Autodesk site for recommended cards
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/cert?siteID=123112&id=16391880
whatever the RAM recommendation is – double it
we are in the process of upgrading all of our 8gb ddr2 ram pcs to 24gb ddr3 ram to handle our large projects and multiple linked files from MEP & structural,,
I am running Revit Arch 2012 on a desktop hp Z800 w/windows xp 64 bit professional. Single license user. Want to load the program on a laptop that can be used for mobile purposes. The laptop is an ASUS and the operating system that it has is windows 7 64 bit. My question is would there be any problems copying dwg files back and forth to each computer system with these 2 differents windows applications or do they have to be the same?
Steve
Steve, no issue whatsoever for the purpose of copying files, it may not be able to read/open it, but you’re essentially using the hard drive like a floppy disk.