Let's have a Hardware speed test for SU

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...

Box

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

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

SnowTiger

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

And this is with Shadows ON

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

Gaieus

@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

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

bmike

@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.

pmolsen

Ran it successfully on SU7.1 and SU8. Medion akoya MD97310 (from Aldi). 15.4 fps on SU7.1. 27.6 fps on SU8.

speed test1.jpg
speed test2.jpg
speed test SU7.jpg
speed test SU8.jpg

naikrovek

SketchUp 8:

Not bad for a $500 PC and $50 video card.

Wo3Dan

How come my old dusty machine is performing rather well? / what am I doing "wrong"?
(PC=5.5 years of age, almost retired)

Micromaxx/Medion
AMD Athlon 64/3000+
Clockspeed 2.00GHz 1.5GB
NVIDIA GeForce FX5700

With SU8 pro (didn't test SU7) and testing the original file:

nothing changed (hidden geometry and shadows off) => around ~62.7 frames/second
(shadows on didn't seem to matter that much, same results => ~62.5 frames/second)
2)edges+profiles on, hidden geometry (and shadows) displayed => ~35.8 frames/second

~ indicates that I did run the code line multiple times.
After changes to settings like 'hidden geometry' only the first run drops down frame rate.
After that a constant higher rate as stated above.

fuzzion

To lazy to cut n paste.

72 frames displayed in 3.963sev
Avg. frames = 0.055 seconds
18.3 frames/sec

System spec

2 year old FX gateway laptop

64bit VIsta
6gb 1066mhz dual chan ram
centrino 2, dual core 2.33ghz , not sure about fsb
9800 GTS 1GB Nvidia card
Intel Chipset

mac1

wo3dan
So much for all the hype about new machines. Are you running on a AGP_ bus also? Try toggling the transparency select on the face styles and see if it makes much difference. It did for me
fussion
It appears you are running too slow for these test conditions. Do you have problems with model display?? Suggest you run the GLview 322.exe and see what type of OpenGL you really have. Also toggle the transparency on the face styles and see if that makes any difference for you. My testing showed the extents of the model play a roll. Make sure to hit zoom extents before running test

juju

SU 8.0.4811

juju pc.jpg

Krisidious

mine... I'm depressed, although I do have 4 monitors.

bentleykfrog

Wow, some unusual results here. I've had some discrepancy between Sketchup v.8.0.4811 and Sketchup v.7.1.6860

Under v.7.1.6860 I got:
Sketchup 7.1.6860 test result
But under v.8.0.4811 I got:
Sketchup 8.0.4811 test result
After some troubleshooting, I found that disabling "Enable Transparency" in the Styles window gave this result in v.8.0.4811:
Sketchup 8.0.4811 (No Transparency) test result
Its unusual, I disabled "Enable Transparency" under 7.1.6860 and there was no noticable difference in the animations performance, but this is different for 8.0.4811. I'm not sure what is going on here but for consistency in results I think the style in the file should be updated to disable the transparency.

Here's my stats:
Mac Pro (1,1) with a modified 8 core x5355 @ 2.66 GHz (2 processors)
16gb DDR2 ECC ram
Ati Radeon HD 5770 (apple version)
SATA II
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit