Let's have a Hardware speed test for SU

[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]

: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"

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

[Anssi]

My results, first test with no shadows

test-1.png

This one with shadows on

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- 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...

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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]

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[Ultimatez 32]

Here's the results using my new laptop

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ultimatez

[Jim Smith]

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

[red44]

New Imac 27 inch as spec'ed here http://store.apple.com/nz/configure/MB9 ... TM3NjczMzI 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...

[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?

[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]

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]

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

[SnowTiger]

And this is with Shadows ON

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

[Gaieus]

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]

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.

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[naikrovek]

SketchUp 8:

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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

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[Krisidious]

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

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[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.jpg

But under v.8.0.4811 I got:

sketchup_8_0_4811.jpg

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_trans.jpg

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:

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Shadows:

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[masrulpilami]

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