Let's have a Hardware speed test for SU

[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.

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[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 !

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[SnowTiger]

And this is with Shadows ON

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

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[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.

[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:

1. 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

[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:

But under v.8.0.4811 I got:

After some troubleshooting, I found that disabling "Enable Transparency" in the Styles window gave this result in v.8.0.4811:

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

[Masta Squidge]

since i like this kind of stuff...

Q6600 quad core @ 3.2 GHZ.
EVGA GTX465SC core unlocked to 448 cores and overclocked 10%

No shadows:

Shadows:

[masrulpilami]

does anyone know how to test it in SU8?=D

[thomthom]

@masrulpilami said:

does anyone know how to test it in SU8?=D

Exactly the same as in SketchUp 7