Macbook Pro 8 core or 10 core 14inch

[Hades100]

Hi, i am an engineering student who runs Fusion 360 and keyshot as my main software. should i opt for the 8 core on 10 core 14 inch macbook pro?

 

[Sheepish-Lord]

whatever your budget can afford, doubt you'll see much of a difference between a couple cores.

 

[jav6454]

Hi, i am an engineering student who runs Fusion 360 and keyshot as my main software. should i opt for the 8 core on 10 core 14 inch macbook pro?

As an Electrical Engineer myself, during my time in college I went with the highest spec CPU and highest amount of RAM I could afford. Why? In my case, MATLAB computational work for projects flowed easier. Also, I used MultiSIM quite often for complex circuit analysis.

If you are within Mechanical, Civil or Naval, then SolidWorks (or CAD) does a number on CPU/GPU cycles due to rendering and mathematical calculations. RAM here is also critical.