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    Let's have a Hardware speed test for SU

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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      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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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
        last edited by

        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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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
          last edited by

          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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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by

            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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            • D Offline
              DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ
              last edited by

              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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              • GaieusG Offline
                Gaieus
                last edited by

                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

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


                  test.jpg

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                  • W Offline
                    Wacov
                    last edited by

                    @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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                    • bazB Offline
                      baz
                      last edited by

                      [/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

                        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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                        • G Offline
                          glenn
                          last edited by

                          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

                            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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                            • GaieusG Offline
                              Gaieus
                              last edited by

                              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

                                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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                                • W Offline
                                  Wacov
                                  last edited by

                                  😲

                                  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

                                    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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                                    • GaieusG Offline
                                      Gaieus
                                      last edited by

                                      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

                                        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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                                        • jeff hammondJ Offline
                                          jeff hammond
                                          last edited by

                                          @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.

                                          dotdotdot

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                                          • F Offline
                                            francois le francais
                                            last edited by

                                            MY CONFIG : macbook pro - mid 2009 unibody 15" 4GbRam 512Mo 9600MGT HD500gb 5400rpm - snow leopard 10.6.1
                                            I ve run the cube test with each graphic configuration on the same machine running sketchup pro 7.0, and results are quite surprising :

                                            9400M : 5.336s - 27.4665s (shadows on) -- with SU7.1= 1.228 - 1.229(shadows on)
                                            9600M GT : 5.327s - 27,669s (shadows on) --with SU7.1= 1.324 - 1.225(shadows on)

                                            I've run the same test with my architecture diploma file (40000m2 hotel+parking+many cars+trees and textures = 4mb files)

                                            9400M : 6.572s - 99.579s (shadows on) --with SU7.1= 4.774 - 5.074(shadows on)
                                            9600M GT : 6.601s - 101.156s (shadows on) --with SU7.1= 5.034 -5.225(shadows on)

                                            That confirms my impression, I can't notice any difference between running sketchup with 9400 and with 9600. 😞 What do u think about that ? Could some mac users confirm these results ?

                                            And 7.1pro version is really impressive. 😍

                                            related link (hardware recommendation) :
                                            http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=10750&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=285

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