

Also, professional cards' memory usage is optimized for using multiple application windows, while in gaming this is not relevant. Typically a 3D model in a game contains a low number of polygons with textures applied to them, while polygon count is high in CAD modeling, and the quality of the stationary image of the wireframe or the shaded model is more important than navigation speed. "Gamer" cards (such as Nvidia GeForce and AMD/ATI Radeon) are optimized for 3D games, where speed is more important than image quality/accuracy. While the hardware setup is very similar for both cards, there are main differences in their firmware and driver. Graphics card manufacturers typically have different product lines targeted for "gamers" and "professional content creation users".

Both Nvidia and AMD provide "Clean-install" options with their driver installers. "Clean-install" means removing all previous driver files before installing a new driver. If you experience display issues with the drivers listed below, please "Clean-install" the driver again. It may happen that remnants of a previous installation interfere with the current driver installation. Graphics cards only perform properly if they have a hardware vendor-supplied driver (not system built-in driver) installed correctly. Please note that at the moment, only Nvidia GPUs are supported for using Redshift on Windows. Redshift is introduced from Archicad 25 Update 2.

Nvidia Quadro FX and Quadro (Fermi architecture) series.We do not recommend the following graphics card legacy families: OpenGL 4.5 compatible graphics card with dedicated memory of 2GB or more is recommended to fully utilize hardware acceleration capabilities.
