I'm running Autodesk Revit 2018 on a 1050 and it runs perfectly, even large size factory models. I have also run P3D on a card from the Quadro series, and it ran fine for me.

 

If it were me, I'd choose the gaming card. I think the benefits of having a prettier P3D outweigh the benefits of a better optimised card for Solid Works.

13 hours ago, pilot100ll said:

A lot of good feedback but what's the verdict?

Did you read the article in my link above to Tom's Hardware? It made it very clear that the Quadro 4000 series cards performed poorly in games when compared to older generation NVIDIA cards. If you factor in the huge performance increases from the latest cards I would say that the best compromise solution is to buy the fastest gaming card you can afford (1080 Ti?).

If you're still not convinced, take a look here: https://youtu.be/JtX5o-MlyaU and here: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/nvidia-gtx-1080-vs-quadro-m4000/td-p/6879003.

Just checked: our main design engineer works on Inventor 2017 and has still his old 1GB ATI Radeo HD5670 in his machine ;-)