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  • A Offline
    arail1
    last edited by 1 Aug 2009, 03:12

    I'm curious about this -
    My (rather underpowered) computer -

    AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core 5000 2.6 GHz
    NIVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
    1GB PC2-5300
    2GB DDR2 PC2-8500
    32 bit Vista Home

    My results -

    No textures or shadows:
    72 frames in 7.228 seconds
    Average frame = 0.100 seconds
    10.00 frames/second

    With textures (1 wood texture on the whole group):
    72 frames in 30.46 seconds
    Average frame = 0.423 seconds
    2.4 frames/second

    With shadows on:
    72 frames in 34.9 seconds
    Average frame = 0.485 seconds
    2.1 frames/second

    I'm going to upgrade the video card on this computer in a couple of weeks. I'm limited in my options because it's a HP Slimline so I can only use a low profile card. But no matter what it is, the memory available for the GPU will be increased. If I understand the situation correctly (which is doubtful) I should see better scores on the texture and shadow tests because it's the GPU that's handling texture and shading, right?

    I invite anyone who is actually knowledgeable about such matters to correct me if I've totally misunderstood this issue.

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      Gaieus
      last edited by 1 Aug 2009, 10:05

      @arail1 said:

      Gaieus -
      Those are impressive numbers. Could you tell us which CPU you have?

      Thanks

      Here is a screenshot of the processor(s) and the video card. Since the test above, I found that SU performed glitchy with certain models and updated my video driver (but haven't made another test yet).


      Specs.png

      Gai...

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      • T Offline
        thomthom
        last edited by 21 Aug 2009, 07:15

        Very interesting test. πŸ€“


        Without shadows


        With shadows

        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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          thomthom
          last edited by 21 Aug 2009, 07:19

          Where does this Test.time_display command come from? Some undocumented debug feature?

          Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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          • T Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by 21 Aug 2009, 07:22

            From a quick glance at the results - it looks like shadows are averaging to be 5 times slower than without.

            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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            • T Offline
              thomthom
              last edited by 24 Aug 2009, 15:58

              Without shadows

              (CPU OC to 3.2GHZ)

              With Shadows

              Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
              List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ
                last edited by 23 Sept 2009, 03:37

                Windows XP sp3
                Pentium D965 3.4ghz
                3.00gb RAM ddr2 400mhz

                Without shadows

                http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/6665/testzzc.jpg

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                • G Offline
                  Gaieus
                  last edited by 23 Sept 2009, 06:44

                  Still the same machine as here but with SU 7.1 now:

                  • 3.0 GHz Dual core CPU
                  • nVidia 9600 (1Gb) GPU
                  • 4Gb RAM
                  • Windows XP SP3 (32 bit)
                    To me, the improvement in speed (with this test model) is very stunning:

                  Shadows off
                  Shadows on
                  Interesting that no matter how many times I tried, the performance was better with shadows on. πŸ˜•
                  (Of course while making the test with shadows on now, SU temporarily turns them off for increasing orbiting and such but still...)

                  Gai...

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                  • B Offline
                    blajnov
                    last edited by 23 Sept 2009, 20:12

                    I had such result, without shadows and with shadows...


                    test.jpg

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                    • W Offline
                      Wacov
                      last edited by 24 Sept 2009, 16:52

                      @wacov said:

                      Using a Q6600 at 2.4GhZ, 4GB DDR2 RAM, and a GTX 295:

                      Time test1.png

                      Now, on SU7.1, using the same setup (At a higher resolution):

                      Test2.png
                      That's a massive difference!
                      The message? Get 7.1. NOW.

                      http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?mid=3096a836877fb9af6cd8ad826e9017b8&prevstart=0

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                        baz
                        last edited by 25 Sept 2009, 02:20

                        [/quote]
                        Now, on SU7.1, using the same setup (At a higher resolution):
                        That's a massive difference!
                        The message? Get 7.1. NOW.[/quote]

                        I got the message, wow!
                        Baz


                        shad off V7.0


                        shad off, V7.1

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                        • G Offline
                          glenn
                          last edited by 30 Sept 2009, 15:43

                          Interesting test results:
                          XP sp3, duo 2.8, 4gb ram, 8500gt 512mb

                          Ran it with SU7.1, then saved it as SU6 and ran it with v6.4
                          Glenn


                          v71 no shadows.jpg

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                            glenn
                            last edited by 30 Sept 2009, 15:45

                            hmmmm...I can't upload multiple images?
                            ok, got it, sorry.


                            v71 shadows.jpg


                            v64 no shadows.jpg


                            v64 shadows.jpg

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                            • brodieB Offline
                              brodie
                              last edited by 30 Sept 2009, 18:34

                              I got 21.1 fps with shadows off.

                              Computer specs are in my signature below

                              -Brodie

                              steelblue http://www.steelbluellc.com

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                                Gaieus
                                last edited by 1 Oct 2009, 10:14

                                Glenn,

                                Now that's some impressive speed increase (of course, there areno textures in the model and such but still)

                                Brodie;
                                OK-ok... there are your computer specs but we don't know (just suspect maybe) what SU version you have!

                                Gai...

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                                • jeff hammondJ Offline
                                  jeff hammond
                                  last edited by 1 Oct 2009, 12:04

                                  i didn't run this pre su7.1 but i'm willing to assume a huge difference since upgrading...
                                  with an older quad mac..
                                  screen 5.jpg
                                  screen 6.jpg

                                  with shadow ON:
                                  screen 3.jpg

                                  shadows OFF:
                                  screen 4.jpg

                                  dotdotdot

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                                    Wacov
                                    last edited by 2 Oct 2009, 11:05

                                    😲

                                    Does SU run better on Macs? Or is it your RAM? Because... 150 fps... ? Wow...

                                    http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?mid=3096a836877fb9af6cd8ad826e9017b8&prevstart=0

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                                      Ultimatez 32
                                      last edited by 4 Oct 2009, 09:06

                                      Here's something odd.....I tried the test on 2 models, one the test model and the other one my roller coaster model. Here's the result.....quite suprising:
                                      coaster model
                                      test model
                                      The picture below shows my computer stats...... πŸ˜•
                                      system.png
                                      It's a laptop by the way

                                      Windows 7 64-bit, Intel Core i3 M350 @2.27GHz, nVidia GEFORCE 310M 512Mb with CUDA, 4gb RAM

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                                      • G Offline
                                        Gaieus
                                        last edited by 4 Oct 2009, 09:37

                                        How about the video card and OpenGL hardware support ("acceleration" in Preferences > OpenGL)?

                                        Gai...

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                                        • Rich O BrienR Offline
                                          Rich O Brien Moderator
                                          last edited by 4 Oct 2009, 11:25

                                          I got new Notebook so here's the results

                                          Test with No Shadows.jpg

                                          Test with Shadows.jpg

                                          Notebook Details.jpg

                                          Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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