Let's have a Hardware speed test for SU

Rich O Brien · 4 Oct 2009, 11:25

I got new Notebook so here's the results

jeff hammond · 5 Oct 2009, 13:16

: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 · 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

Pete · 16 May 2010, 21:34

Here are results form Macbook Pro 13"

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

Anssi · 17 May 2010, 18:51

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 · 5 Jun 2010, 12:38

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 · 21 Jun 2010, 19:30

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 · 21 Jun 2010, 20:21

Ultimatez 32 · 25 Jun 2010, 12:32

Here's the results using my new laptop

ultimatez

jim smith · 25 Jun 2010, 13:28

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

bmike · 29 Jun 2010, 02:54

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 · 29 Jun 2010, 22:07

Anyone got a new Mac Pro to test?

red44 · 29 Jun 2010, 22:08

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...

Box · 8 Jul 2010, 12:25

For reference I just tested my Asus Eeepc running XP and SU7.1.

The test shows it is pretty slow but it all works if you want something portable..

I've opened two very high poly models, and they certainly orbit and zoom quite happily, I imagine any work on them would take forever though.

SnowTiger · 13 Jul 2010, 14:40

It appears I don't know how to get both images to upload in the same post ... so here's the other one.

SnowTiger · 13 Jul 2010, 14:43

I hate to say it.. but I will.
I seem to be "smoking" all you fellers.
Here's my score.

BTW - I am running Vista Ultimate with 4 Gigs Ram and 2x (PCIE SLI) Nvidea 8800GT's

"EDIT" .. I guess I haven't "smoked" everyone. I didn't notice there are 6 pages to this Thread ..... DOH !

SnowTiger · 13 Jul 2010, 14:50

And this is with Shadows ON

PS> Sorry I don't know how to post multiple images in the same Reply Post. !!!

Gaieus · 13 Jul 2010, 15:14

@snowtiger said:

PS> Sorry I don't know how to post multiple images in the same Reply Post. !!!

You just add another one...

BTW Chris; you must have given some wrong email address the other day as it was returned to me...

glenn · 1 Sept 2010, 21:46

Hey,
Anyone try this test with SU8 yet?
I"m interested to see speed compared to 7.1
Thanks,
Glenn

bmike · 2 Sept 2010, 13:52

@glenn said:

Hey,
Anyone try this test with SU8 yet?
I"m interested to see speed compared to 7.1
Thanks,
Glenn

tried. does not work, get an argument error.
looks like the file / code will need to tweak.