Let's have a Hardware speed test for SU

Gaieus · 1 Aug 2009, 10:05

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).

thomthom · 21 Aug 2009, 07:15

Very interesting test.

thomthom · 21 Aug 2009, 07:19

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

thomthom · 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.

thomthom · 24 Aug 2009, 15:58

(CPU OC to 3.2GHZ)

DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ · 23 Sept 2009, 03:37

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

Without shadows

Gaieus · 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:

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

blajnov · 23 Sept 2009, 20:12

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

Wacov · 24 Sept 2009, 16:52

@wacov said:

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

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

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

baz · 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

glenn · 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

glenn · 30 Sept 2009, 15:45

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

brodie · 30 Sept 2009, 18:34

I got 21.1 fps with shadows off.

Computer specs are in my signature below

-Brodie

Gaieus · 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!

jeff hammond · 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..

with shadow ON:

shadows OFF:

Wacov · 2 Oct 2009, 11:05

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

Ultimatez 32 · 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:

The picture below shows my computer stats......

It's a laptop by the way

Gaieus · 4 Oct 2009, 09:37

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

Rich O Brien · 4 Oct 2009, 11:25

I got new Notebook so here's the results

jeff hammond · 5 Oct 2009, 13:16

@wacov said:

:shock:

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

i'm not sure because i've never used windows for comparison.. there was an export test around here a while ago in which the macs were able to export jpgs at more than twice the size as windows but other than that, i haven't seen anything alluding to SU being better with OS X..
in fact, there are often things i see that work on PCs that i can't do.