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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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      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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          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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                  • G Offline
                    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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                      • G Offline
                        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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                                  • jeff hammondJ Offline
                                    jeff hammond
                                    last edited by 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.

                                    dotdotdot

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                                      francois le francais
                                      last edited by 6 Oct 2009, 12:41

                                      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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                                        Pete
                                        last edited by 16 May 2010, 21:34

                                        Here are results form Macbook Pro 13"

                                        hardware.gif
                                        graphics.gif
                                        results.gif

                                        Strangely, I was getting 15-16 fps then I turned on shadows and it increased??

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                                        • AnssiA Offline
                                          Anssi
                                          last edited by 17 May 2010, 18:51

                                          My results, first test with no shadows
                                          test-1.png
                                          This one with shadows on
                                          test-2.png

                                          • core i7-860, 2.8GHz
                                          • 8 GB memory
                                          • Nvidia QuadroFX 1800 graphics card with 768 Mb memory
                                          • 1080 x 1920 screen, SU maximized
                                          • Windows 7 Pro 64-bit

                                          securi adversus homines, securi adversus deos rem difficillimam adsecuti sunt, ut illis ne voto quidem opus esset

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