Let's have a Hardware speed test for SU

glenn

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

v71 shadows.jpg

v64 no shadows.jpg

v64 shadows.jpg

brodie

I got 21.1 fps with shadows off.

Computer specs are in my signature below

-Brodie

Gaieus

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

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

Wacov

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

Ultimatez 32

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

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

Rich O Brien

I got new Notebook so here's the results

Test with No Shadows.jpg

Test with Shadows.jpg

Notebook Details.jpg

jeff hammond

@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.

francois le francais

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

Pete

Here are results form Macbook Pro 13"

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

Anssi

My results, first test with no shadows

This one with shadows on

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

pyroluna

sweet...

and the GPU is an NVidia Quadro FX 770M... is that any good?

oh and with shadows off, the time was 1.141. Average frame=0.016 sec., 63.1 fr/s

joppermann

Ok. Not sure how to do screen shots but I will just give you the info.

Without shadows.

72 frames displayed in 3.420 seconds
average frame = 0.047 seconds
21.1 frames/second

With shadows.

72 frames displayed in 1.373 seconds
average frame = 0.019 seconds
52.5 frames/second

AMD phenom II x4 black edition 3.0ghz
8 gigs DDR2
ATI HD4850 1024
1920x1080
win 7 64 home prem

Vicspa

Ultimatez 32

Here's the results using my new laptop

ultimatez

jim smith

Toshiba A300 Satellite, 2 years old dual core intel, 3 gig ram, 32 bit windows 7, ATI mobility card

bmike

Dell M6400 with NVIDIA Quadro FX2700.

Stats went up after I went into the NVIDIA control panel and changed the 3d settings to 'Let Application Control' or somesuch.

red44

Anyone got a new Mac Pro to test?

red44

New Imac 27 inch as spec'ed here http://store.apple.com/nz/configure/MB953X/A?mco=MTM3NjczMzI with 8Gb Ram & i7 processor. Running SU 7.1 on Snow Leopard.

Shadows on - (47-53*) frames per second
Shadows off - 22 frames per second**

compared to old G5 PPC Dual 2.3Ghz, with 2.5Gb RAM NVidia GeForce 6600 GPU

Shadows on - 30 frames per second
Shadows off - 14.6 frames per second

and 1st gen Macbook Pro - (ATI Radeon X1600 2Ghz Intel Core Duo, 2Gb Ram Leopard, SU 7.1)

Shadows on - 27.3 frames per second
Shadows off - 9.2 frames per second

Pretty impressive improvement I guess, but can't help wondering what the Mac Pro might be capable of... No software/OpenGL issues yet to report but will post back if I find any....

*Is SU caching something here? Upon repeated testing I'm getting different results (shadows on = same as shadows off & frame rate increases to 53), even after closing SU and reopening Test file... Am I missing something here?

**The results on the Imac back up Jopperman's results with similarly spec'ed Graphics card (512Mb difference on GPU) and RAM but on a different operating system and other hardware specifically CPU...