Test for fusion360 performance?

[Anonymous]

I have a windows 7 64bit Dell T1500 i5 cpu with16gb ram. It seems for large drawings fusion360 slows down a lot, or if I zoom in a long way it gets very sluggish.   I can get newer Dell's (990s and 9010s just out of warrantee off work)  very cheaply (like $60US) so I am wondering if its worth upgrading. To that end is there a test (suite) suited to fusion360's needs I could run to see if its worth the hassle?  Also my GPU is an old AMD4650 so I am thinking to buy a new one, not a monster card, something around $250US.   The other option might be a Dell workstation but that costs x3 (or more) and only has a single Xeon 3gz quad core CPU in it (I cant recall the spec I think its a T3600 with 8gb ECC ram)  making buying more ram also expensive.  If there was a good test I could throw at a box then I'd have an idea what was worth doing.

[TrippyLighting]

Are you talking about a drawing, or a model ?

IF you are talking about a performance slow down in the 3D viewport, the reason is that Fusion 360 searches for selectable objets in a cone volume protruding from the mouse cursor.

The more geometry is in that cone volume, the more Fusion 360 has to crunch numbers. So if there is geometry that you can either hide, or set to "unselectable" you will see a dramatic increase in performance.

Having said all that, I usually turn off all the viewport gimmicks such as shadows, ambient occlusion etc.

[Anonymous]

Hi, I am already hiding stuff not actually being worked on and this does seem to improve performance. My Dell T1500 is 6+ years old and while perfectly OK generally seems to slow with fusion360. Anyway every xmas my company does a hardware refresh so I have the opportunity to buy a new machine very cheaply which if I get a noticeable performance boost is worthwhile. I will have a choice of a few different machines, Dell 9010s or T3500s at different price points so a quick test suite would be useful to run over the choices to see what gives the best performance. ie the T3500 will be 3 or 4 times the price of a 9010 so buying a 9010 and spending that $s difference on a better GPU might be the better way to go.