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Benchmark for Autodesk Inventor 2012

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prusas
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Benchmark for Autodesk Inventor 2012

Autodesk inventor 2012 has worked exclusively on Direct3D. At the moment, there is no single test that is likely to correctly identify performance hardware.The results of such tests as Cinebench, 3DMark, SPECviewperf - untrue. But the need to determine the real performance of video cards is growing. According to this offer on their own to determine the performance of different video cards. For the test we will use the internal mechanism of Autodesk inventor 2012 definition of refresh rate.
One benchmark test that you can perform is to run the Post Statistics.

This requires an understanding of registry editing.
Go Start>Run & type “regedit”. Click OK & navigate to this branch: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersionXX\System\Preferences\Scene Manager\Debug\Post Statistics, set the REG_DWORD to 1.
The next time Inventor is run, a small information box will appear at the bottom of your screen.
 We twist the assembly . Pattern editing in the assembly "1000.iam", we change the number of parts in the assembly until the refresh rate will be equal to 15 Hz. This is the minimum, and psychologically comfortable refresh rate.We work exclusively in the factory settings
The results report in the next volume:
1.     The operating system and its capacity
2.    Processor
3.    RAM
4.    Video card
5.    Number of parts with assembly at a refresh rate of 15Hz.

Windows 7 64 bit
Intel® Core™ i7 CPU X 990 @ 3,9; RAM 12Gb x 1600
OCZ-Vertex 4 SSD (119.24GB)
Asus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580; PLE2607WS 1920x1200
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Message 21 of 103
mcgyvr
in reply to: blair


@Blair wrote:

I get around 500 parts for the 15Hz rotation at 1920 x 1200 in Performance mode, no difference in Quality mode and a major drop to 7 Hz in compatibility mode.


Even more "interesting"... I get double the refresh rate with compatibility mode and you get half.  I just don't get it at all.

Sure wish an Autodesk Graphics Geek would come in here and explain the vast differences.



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Message 22 of 103
blair
in reply to: mcgyvr

Possible some of the posters, are rotating at a slow speed, don't know. I am spinning using my Space-Pilot at at as fast as my system will rotate.


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Message 23 of 103
mcgyvr
in reply to: blair


@Blair wrote:

Possible some of the posters, are rotating at a slow speed, don't know. I am spinning using my Space-Pilot at at as fast as my system will rotate.


me too. Didn't notice much of a difference though between full dizzy spin and granny spins 🙂 

I'm confused about our 2 results though.. Should be similar cards and totally opposite results with compatibility mode.

Mine can't even come close to 500 parts at 15hz either.

 



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Message 24 of 103
prusas
in reply to: mcgyvr

Very interesting picture emerges, two cards Nvidia GT8800; GT8500 old and the new GTX580 works the same way~300 part, although the difference in Direct3D tests should be almost 4 times. The conclusion is one restriction on the driver level is so big that both cards are not loaded on to brake so much of themselves. It seems that Nvidia asked the border gaming performance cards. GTX590 - 2 core x 300 = ~500 part. http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor-%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9/Benchmark...

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Asus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580; PLE2607WS 1920x1200
Message 25 of 103
edarlak
in reply to: prusas

Some of you may have seen my thread about Inventor graphics performance degradation on the same hardware when we moved from IV2010 to IV2012.

 

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor/IV2010-to-IV2012-Graphics-performace-takes-a-huge-hi...

 

I was pointed to this thread, and I decided to do a comparison. I recreated the test files in IV2010, and ran the test in IV2012 on Quality settings and in IV2010 on D3D and D3D 10 setting options.

 

My results are in the attached PDF.

 

Obviously, huge degradation in performance, and we are not happy at all...

 

I really want an answer from Autodesk, as this is driving me nuts. Not only did I buy Quadro when I didn't need to (my fault for not doing more research), but with the performance of a GTX 580 being higher than a Quadro 6000 at 1/8th the cost, coupled with the fact that the performance from IV2010 to IV2012 is a serious drop off, I'm vexed, terribly vexed 😉

Message 26 of 103
Martin_Goodland
in reply to: prusas

I got 13.8 Hz with 567 parts on screen with 2560 x 1440 screen and when moved to my second screen the score was 15.6 Hz for the same amount of parts running in performance mode on the machine in my sig. Not yet tried switching to single  screen to see if that makes a difference as well.

 

Does the graph get saved somewhere ? Or are you creating them yourselves ?

 

Regards

 

Martin

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Message 27 of 103
edarlak
in reply to: Martin_Goodland

"Does the graph get saved somewhere ? Or are you creating them yourselves ?"

 

No, I manually ran the test for each case, recorded the data in Excel and plotted.

Message 28 of 103
karthur1
in reply to: prusas

Way back in Inventor 6, there was a bunch of testing everyone was doing and creating video benchmarking.  To make sure everyone was using the same assemblyl file, the bench mark was done with the Engine.iam sample file that came with Inventor.

 

Attached is the .ivb file. It takes all the quess work out of the benchmark tests.  I havnt tried to use on 2012, but it should run.

 

Here is how to perform the benchmark.

 

How to use Inventor6_bench

- Copy the file Inventor6_bench directory to a local drive.

- Start Autodesk Inventor   (Supported version: Inventor6.x or newer)

- Load the sample Engine.iam (you can also use any other Inventor .iam or .ipt file).

- Go to Tools/Macro/Visual Basic Editor.

- In the Visual Basic Editor go to File/Load Project and open Inventor6_bench.ivb.

- Exit the Visual Basic Editor.

- Go to Tools/Macro/Macros…  (or Alt+F8) and select 'start_Inventor6_bench' from the list and hit Run.

- Please move the mouse outside of the viewport after releasing the Run button.

What does the benchmark do?

The loaded sample will be rotated   - in shaded mode   - in hidden mode   - in wireframe mode

Then multiple (10) new windows will be added and be shown in cascade mode   (the time to add the new windows is irrelevant)

In the last window the object will be rotated   - in Shaded mode

After the benchmark is finished a dialog box shows the frames/second You can choose to save the results to a textfile.

Remarks: With some graphics boards you will get very bad performance in the 'multiple windows' test (e.g. 0.8 FPS with NVidia GeForce4 Ti4600). This behavior shows how the graphics board can handle with multiple windows open. If all tests show such bad performance, hardware acceleration is probably disabled (see Tools/Application Options.../Hardware/Diagnostics: If Microsoft GDI Generic driver is used, hardware acceleration is disabled).

AS 11/29/2002

Message 29 of 103
karthur1
in reply to: karthur1

I just ran the video benchmark using the Engine MKII.iam sample file and the Inventor 6 Benckmark.ivb.

 

Here is the results.

 

2011-11-03_1506.png

Message 30 of 103
JohanLarsson
in reply to: Malenki

Tried it at home, been a couple of days since restart of the computer.

Windows 7 64 bit

Intel Q6600 2,4 GHz

ATI Radeon HD 3800, 1600×1200

RAM 6Gb

Refresh rate 100 part  -15Hz

 

Thank you for this. I could maybe find time to write a script that runs it in a standardized way and generates the report.

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Inventor Professional 2012 SP1 (25 seats with subscription)
Windows 7 64 bit
Lenovo D20, 12 GB RAM, Intel Xeon X5687 3.6 GHz, SSD
Quadro 4000, driver 8.17.12.9573, dual monitors
SpacePilot, driver version 6.15.3 Firmware 3.12
Message 31 of 103
JohanLarsson
in reply to: JohanLarsson

Tried it at work now.

 

Windows XP 32 bit

Intel Xeon 5160 3.0 GHz
Quadro FX3500, driver 6.14.12.7614, dual monitors ran the benchmark on the smaller 1600×1200

RAM 4Gb

Refresh rate 250 part  -15Hz

 

This computer feels way more sluggish than the computer at home. I cannot maximize Inventor, then the graphics freezes completely. Inventor still reports a framerate though.

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Inventor Professional 2012 SP1 (25 seats with subscription)
Windows 7 64 bit
Lenovo D20, 12 GB RAM, Intel Xeon X5687 3.6 GHz, SSD
Quadro 4000, driver 8.17.12.9573, dual monitors
SpacePilot, driver version 6.15.3 Firmware 3.12
Message 32 of 103
prusas
in reply to: JohanLarsson

Can anyone explain these results realties?

Windows 7 64 bit
Intel® Core™ i7 CPU X 990 @ 3,9; RAM 12Gb x 1600
OCZ-Vertex 4 SSD (119.24GB)
Asus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580; PLE2607WS 1920x1200
Message 33 of 103
Malenki
in reply to: karthur1

Here is the answer to karthur1: benchmark using the Engine MKII.iam sample file by Inventor 6 Benckmark.ivb.

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Windows 10 64B + Product Design Collection 2021+ASM 2018
1. HP Z2 Tower G4: Intel Core i7-8700K CPU@3.70GHz + Quadro P2000
2. GIGABYTE EX58-UD5: Intel Core i7 920 (2.66GHz to 3.6GHz) + Quadro FX4000
Message 34 of 103
JohanLarsson
in reply to: JohanLarsson

If any of you guys find the time it would be very interesting to see results from other operations.

 

For example if we create a drawing with the assembly

 - Section view

 - Change the distance between elements in the patterns and update the drawing.

 - Show hidden lines.

 - Add iso view

 

It should be easy to write a VBA script for this and just measure the time for each operation. I dont know if we can get the computer specifiaction via VBA.

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Inventor Professional 2012 SP1 (25 seats with subscription)
Windows 7 64 bit
Lenovo D20, 12 GB RAM, Intel Xeon X5687 3.6 GHz, SSD
Quadro 4000, driver 8.17.12.9573, dual monitors
SpacePilot, driver version 6.15.3 Firmware 3.12
Message 35 of 103
Malenki
in reply to: Malenki

And comparing the results of both tests on my hardware. Red and black curve are even quite similar ... Smiley Wink

I made it out of curiosity only.

comparison chart.PNG

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Windows 10 64B + Product Design Collection 2021+ASM 2018
1. HP Z2 Tower G4: Intel Core i7-8700K CPU@3.70GHz + Quadro P2000
2. GIGABYTE EX58-UD5: Intel Core i7 920 (2.66GHz to 3.6GHz) + Quadro FX4000
Message 36 of 103
karthur1
in reply to: Malenki

Malenki,

The previous post that I made was with 2011.  Here are the results on the same machine comparing 2011 and 2012.  I have the application options set the same between both versions (als close as I can).

 

I am also in the process of doing the test with the 1000.iam.  From what I have tested so far, 2012 is much slower than 2011.

 

My screen resolution is 1280x1024.

 

Engine_Benchmarks.png

Message 37 of 103
Malenki
in reply to: karthur1


@karthur1 wrote:

 ... From what I have tested so far, 2012 is much slower than 2011. My screen resolution is 1280x1024.


 

I can not compare them. I kicked Inventor 2011 quite a long time. Results, You showed are not staggering for v.2012.

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Windows 10 64B + Product Design Collection 2021+ASM 2018
1. HP Z2 Tower G4: Intel Core i7-8700K CPU@3.70GHz + Quadro P2000
2. GIGABYTE EX58-UD5: Intel Core i7 920 (2.66GHz to 3.6GHz) + Quadro FX4000
Message 38 of 103
ozitag
in reply to: karthur1

Hi,

Here's mine with the Engine MKII.iam. I have a pretty standard computer.

Inventor6 Grapics Benchmark on large monitor
Shaded           = 90 FPS
Hidden           = 22 FPS
Wireframe        = 45 FPS
Multiple Windows = 90 FPS
Average          = 61 FPS

 

Inventor6 Grapics Benchmark on small monitor
Shaded           = 45 FPS
Hidden           = 22 FPS
Wireframe        = 45 FPS
Multiple Windows = 90 FPS
Average          = 50 FPS
 

HP xw6600 Workstation

Windows XP x64 - 8Gb RAM

Intel Xeon E5430 @ 2.66Ghz

Nvidia Quadro FX 3700

Dual monitors Large at Res 1920x1200, Small at 1280x1024.

Inv 2010 SP4

 

Regards,

Ozitag

 

IV 2010
Message 39 of 103
mcgyvr
in reply to: karthur1


@karthur1 wrote:

Malenki,

The previous post that I made was with 2011.  Here are the results on the same machine comparing 2011 and 2012.  I have the application options set the same between both versions (als close as I can).

 

I am also in the process of doing the test with the 1000.iam.  From what I have tested so far, 2012 is much slower than 2011.

 

My screen resolution is 1280x1024.

 

Engine_Benchmarks.png


WOW.. Autodesk should be ashamed. Almost a 50% loss of performance in that test (shaded anyways).



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Message 40 of 103
blair
in reply to: mcgyvr

Here are my results:

 

Inventor6 Grapics Benchmark

04/11/2011 8:56:43 AM

Shaded           = 153.6 FPS
Hidden           = 53.6 FPS
Wireframe        = 104 FPS
Multiple Windows = 188.1 FPS
Average          = 124.8 FPS

 

Didn't have the Engine.iam file on my system. I remember it and used a considerably larger model.


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