Let's have a Hardware speed test for SU

[thomthom]

Very interesting test.

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[thomthom]

Where does this Test.time_display command come from? Some undocumented debug feature?

[thomthom]

From a quick glance at the results - it looks like shadows are averaging to be 5 times slower than without.

[thomthom]

(CPU OC to 3.2GHZ)

[DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ]

Windows XP sp3
Pentium D965 3.4ghz
3.00gb RAM ddr2 400mhz

Without shadows

[Gaieus]

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:

Interesting that no matter how many times I tried, the performance was better with shadows on.
(Of course while making the test with shadows on now, SU temporarily turns them off for increasing orbiting and such but still...)

[blajnov]

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

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[Wacov]

@wacov said:

Using a Q6600 at 2.4GhZ, 4GB DDR2 RAM, and a GTX 295:

Now, on SU7.1, using the same setup (At a higher resolution):

That's a massive difference!
The message? Get 7.1. NOW.

[baz]

[/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

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[glenn]

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

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[glenn]

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

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[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..

with shadow ON:

shadows OFF:

[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

[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