The Hardware Recommendations

• Starting from: Intel Core i7 (from 3 GHz GHz = gigahertz, this unit indicates the performance of computers. 1 GHz means, that the processor can execute one billion (thousand million) calculation-steps per second.) or equivalent AMD systems
• Advise for quick Raytracing Raytracing is a mathematical method that copies the natural vision. With Raytracing is a trick used: the reversal of the light rays from the virtual eye in the virtual room, so that only those light rays, that actually would reach the eye in the selected position, are calculated.: Intel Core i9 or AMD Ryzen Threadripper (from 6 Cores)

Required PC working memory and graphics card for the CARAT design program with CARAT emotion Level 1 (3D-surfaces)

Product information about CARAT emotion: See also: CARAT emotion

By use of 1 monitor with Full HD resolution:

• Starting from 8 GB 1 GB (Gigabyte (= 1000 MB) =1.000.000.000 Byte) A unit to indicate the total available memory capacity. One byte means an addressable memory unit, which has the capacity to store any character. PC PC: The English term personal computer is the trade name for a range of computer systems, which originally were primarily manufactured by the company IBM. working memory (RAM)
• Starting from 4 GB graphics processor memory (GPU VRAM)
• Full support of OpenGL The OpenGL standard describes about 250 commands, which allows the display of complex 3D-scenes in real-time. (from Version 3.3 or higher)
• Current driver A device driver, most often shortened driver, is a computer program or module which controls the interaction between attached or built-in devices (hardware). It uses therefore an interface to a communications bus or other communication system that the device is attached to, to send and/or receive control signals and/or data to hardware. version
• For example NVIDIA 1060 or 2050

By use of 1 monitor with UHD (4K) resolution:

• Starting from 16 GB PC working memory (RAM)
• Starting from 8 GB graphics processor memory (GPU VRAM)
• Full support of OpenGL (from Version 3.3 or higher)
• Current driver version
• For example NVIDIA 2070 or 3060

By use of 2 monitors with Full HD resolution:

• Starting from 8 GB PC working memory (RAM)
• Starting from 6 GB graphics processor memory (GPU VRAM)
• Full support of OpenGL (from Version 3.3 or higher)
• Current driver version
• For example NVIDIA 1070 or 2060

By use of 2 monitors 1xUHD (4K) + 1xFull HD resolution:

• Starting from 16 GB PC working memory (RAM)
• 8-10 GB graphics processor memory (GPU VRAM)
• Full support of OpenGL (from Version 3.3 or higher)
• Current driver version
• For example NVIDIA 2080 or 3070

By use of 2 monitors with UHD (4K) resolution:

• Starting from 16 GB PC working memory (RAM)
• 10-12 GB graphics processor memory (GPU VRAM)
• Full support of OpenGL (from Version 3.3 or higher)
• Current driver version
• For example NVIDIA 2080 or 3070

The result depends not only on the hardware used (graphics card, monitors A monitor is a output device and/or a part of an output device used for displaying information or pictures. It is thus a display in a technical sense.) but also on the CARAT design. The more decorative articles are displayed, the better the hardware required. The current programming always aims to display the best quality. If the hardware is weak, the display may stutter. Please also note that laptops are usually approx. 20-30% slower than desktop If you start your computer, and no programs are open, the Windows user interface or "desktop" will automatically appear on the screen. Here you will find the CARAT program symbol, with a standard installation. Also, the wastebasket and other links for functions and programs are located here. PCs.

Required PC working memory and graphics card for the CARAT design program with CARAT emotion Level 2 (3D-surfaces + animations)

The use of CARAT emotion Level 2 increases the power consumption of the graphics card. Notebooks should therefore only be operated with the power supply unit connected.

Product information about CARAT emotion: See also: CARAT emotion

By use of 1 monitor with Full HD resolution:

• Starting from 8 GB PC working memory (RAM)
• Starting from 6 GB graphics processor memory (GPU VRAM)
• Full support of OpenGL (from Version 3.3 or higher)
• Current driver version
• For example NVIDIA 2070 or 3060

By use of 1 monitor with UHD (4K) resolution:

• Starting from 16 GB PC working memory (RAM)
• 10-12 GB graphics processor memory (GPU VRAM)
• Full support of OpenGL (from Version 3.3 or higher)
• Current driver version
• For example NVIDIA 3080 or 4070

By use of 2 monitors with Full HD resolution:

• Starting from 16 GB PC working memory (RAM)
• Starting from 8 GB graphics processor memory (GPU VRAM)
• Full support of OpenGL (from Version 3.3 or higher)
• Current driver version
• For example NVIDIA 2080 or 3070

By use of 2 monitors 1xUHD (4K) + 1xFull HD resolution:

• Starting from 16 GB PC working memory (RAM)
• 10-12 GB graphics processor memory (GPU VRAM)
• Full support of OpenGL (from Version 3.3 or higher)
• Current driver version
• For example NVIDIA 3080 or 4070

By use of 2 monitors with UHD (4K) resolution:

• Starting from 16 GB PC working memory (RAM)
• 12-16 GB graphics processor memory (GPU VRAM)
• Full support of OpenGL (from Version 3.3 or higher)
• Current driver version
• For example NVIDIA 3080, 4070, 4080

The result depends not only on the hardware used (graphics card, monitors) but also on the CARAT design. The more decorative articles are displayed, the better the hardware required. The current programming always aims to display the best quality. If the hardware is weak, the display may stutter. Please also note that laptops are usually approx. 20-30% slower than desktop PCs.

Onboard-graphic chips or graphic cards only offer limited 3D-graphic support, and should therefore not be used, especially for the CARAT-Perspective!

Because of the diversity of today's graphics cards and the still very unclear and often confusing labelling of individual graphics card types, it is not possible for us to generally release certain series of graphics cards for the use with CARAT. This is because there are sometimes considerable differences in performance Performance, in the context of computing and software, is a term meaning the effectiveness at usage of resources and the quality of output from programs. despite the fact that the type designations are almost identical. Please note that the flawless functioning of a graphics card can only be ensured when also all other components (motherboard, power supply unit, drivers) work properly.

Non suitable graphics cards:

For the use with CARAT we generally would recommend the use of graphics cards from the consumer sector. Besides the bigger and partly less expensive assortment, is in this sector a very good graphics driver support offered, because of the shorter cycles of software Software denotes all nonphysical functional components of a computer, which contains at least one microprocessor. This primarily includes computer programs, as well as data used with computer programs. updates An update designates a new version of a base software program, which fixes faults or contains small improvements.. Furthermore uses CARAT the possibilities of Pixel- and Vertex-Shader for the calculation of perspectives, with which especially the consumer cards series are relatively well equipped. We would however, advice against the use of the graphics cards listed following, because these graphics cards are usually developed for highly specialised CAD The term CAD stand for Computer Aided Design. All detailed articles from a particular manufacturer, as well as the neutral catalogues in CARAT, are generated with CAD.-applications and updates of the graphics driver are clearly significantly less frequent.

• NVIDIA Quadro
• AMD FirePro
• All onboard-graphics chips

See also: Information about EDP-Systems

• Starting from 1280 x 1024 Pixel Pixel or picture element identifies both, the smallest unit of digital raster graphics and the display of these graphics on a monitor with raster activation. with a 19" screen size The screen size is stated in inches (1 inch = 2.54 cm) and indicates the distance along the diagonal of the viewable screen. Unlike a TFT-Monitor however, is with a cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitor the visible range somewhat smaller than the diagonal of the CRT.
• Recommended resolution Commonly the picture resolution means the quantity of pixels (picture points), which make up a digital image. Normally values are given in width x height.: 1920 x 1080 Pixel (HD) with a 27" (inch The inch became more and more out of use with the implementation of the metric system, only in the English language area (and with non-metric threads) is the inch still in use, which is in 1956 defined as international or English Inch on exactly 25,4 mm. The unit symbol for the inch is „in“ or the inch character ("), which is the same as the second symbol.) screen size

• Recommendation:
  • HDD: 1 TB, access time under 10 ms
  • SSD: minimum 500 GB with release for database systems
• For an average CARAT Design Program Installation, you should reckon with a space requirement of at least 100 GB on your hard drive A hard drive (hard disk drive = HDD) is a ferromagnetic storage medium in computer technology, to which binary data is written on the surface of a rotating platter. The hard magnetic coating of the platter is magnetized with the relevant information as the platter rotates..

• Outlook 32 Bit-Desktop version

• DSL Over DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) private users and companies can send and receive data at very high transmission rates. DSL uses the existing phone lines. connection or wired internet

• Colour printer starting from 2400 x 1200 Dpi The relative resolution is the quantity of picture basic elements (pixels or dots) per unit of length (dpi = dots per inch); this is also called point or pixel density. With inch is the international inch of 2,54 cm meant.
• Black and White printer starting from 600 Dpi

• USB flash drive A USB flash drive (USB = Universal-Serial-Bus) is a data storage appliance that can be attached via the USB port of a computer and is usually no larger than a small lighter. or similar removable medium A portable data storage device, often non-specific called a storage medium, serves to save data and/or information.

• On RDX-drive, hard drive, tape drive A tape drive, also know as a streamer, is an external data storage device used for storing additional and rare data, e.g. for data backup. or similar