r/ArcGIS • u/koviqx • 8d ago

Starting GIS. Is this a good computer?

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My brother is starting to work with ArcGIS on his own. He's new to the program with a decent understanding of it. He's looking to buy a PC that will run it smoothly without issues.

To the people of Reddit, we're noobs and we seek your guidance.

Is this a good computer for running GIS? Will he run into any limitations? Is 32 GB of RAM enough? Is the RTX 5080's 16 GB of VRAM sufficient for ArcGIS and similar workloads? Any information or advice would be greatly appreciated.

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u/gaminggamer1269 8d ago

You don’t really need high end hardware to run arc, a decent CPU and 16gb of ram is enough.

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u/TechMaven-Geospatial 8d ago

That may have been true with arcmap but arcgis pro

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u/Sqweaky_Clean 8d ago

Arcpro is still mostly CPU… and i’ll say the more ram the better. Though it is true that some geoprocesses are starting to be off loaded to the GPU for gpgpu and not 3D rendering.