I have two Laptops -
one Thinkpad E595 with onboard graphics purchased last year and
one Dell XPS with an Nvidia graphics card bought about 10 years ago.
The only difference I can notice between the two of them is the Dell takes a bit longer to load FreeCAD. When opening my largest FreeCAD file there is no noticeable difference. I have attached some information below to make a comparison which you may find useful.
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) (XFCE/xfce)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.27008 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: (HEAD detached at 9162733)
Hash: 91627338a44371fe9a8e815b4900f62558af98a1
Python version: 3.9.9
Qt version: 5.12.9
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.5.3
Locale: English/Australia (en_AU)
THINKPAD SPECS
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System: Kernel: 5.14.0-3mx-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.14.0-3mx-amd64
root=UUID=<filter> ro splash quiet
Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.14.0 vt: 7
dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-19.4_ahs_x64 patito feo March 31 2021
base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20NFA00PAU v: ThinkPad E595 serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 20NFA00PAU serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO v: R11ET40W (1.20 )
date: 11/17/2020
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 42.7 Wh (100.0%) condition: 42.7/45.7 Wh (93.4%) volts: 11.7
min: 11.1 model: Celxpert 5B10W138 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: Full
cycles: 10
CPU: Info: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 3700U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx bits: 64
type: MT MCP arch: Zen family: 17 (23) model-id: 18 (24) stepping: 1
microcode: 8108102 cache: L2: 2 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 36731
Speed: 1177 MHz min/max: 1400/2300 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1177
2: 1179 3: 1221 4: 1222 5: 1397 6: 1397 7: 1308 8: 1376
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2
mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: AMD Picasso vendor: Lenovo ThinkPad E595 driver: amdgpu v: kernel
bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:15d8 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: IMC Networks type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-2:3 chip-ID: 13d3:5415
class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.14.0 driver: loaded: amdgpu
display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x285mm (40.0x11.2")
s-diag: 1055mm (41.5")
Monitor-1: eDP res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6")
diag: 395mm (15.5")
Monitor-2: HDMI-A-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 30 size: 1600x900mm (63.0x35.4")
diag: 1836mm (72.3")
OpenGL:
renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 10 Graphics (RAVEN DRM 3.42.0 5.14.0-3mx-amd64 LLVM 11.0.1)
v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.4 direct render: Yes
DELL SPECS
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CPU: Dual Core Intel Core2 Duo T9300 (-MCP-)
speed/min/max: 1512/800/2501 MHz Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64
Up: 7d 3h 35m Mem: 1212.1/2987.6 MiB (40.6%)
Storage: 305.59 GiB (14.9% used) Procs: 146 Shell: Bash 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06
Laurie@antix1:~
$ inxi -xxx
CPU: Dual Core Intel Core2 Duo T9300 (-MCP-)
speed/min/max: 1275/800/2501 MHz Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64
Up: 7d 3h 35m Mem: 1213.1/2987.6 MiB (40.6%)
Storage: 305.59 GiB (14.9% used) Procs: 144 Shell: Bash 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA G84M [GeForce 8600M GT] driver: nvidia v: 340.108
Device-2: OmniVision OV2640 Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1440x900~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce 8600M GT/PCIe/SSE2 v: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.108