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Hi guys,
We have had to do some testing on a bunch of Inventor PC's recently to determine which of the PC's needs to be replaced. Obviously we needed to find out which of the PC's are the worst eprformers as there was only budget to replace 50% of the design PC's. So we thought the Darwin theory will come in handy right... 🙂
Anyways I started searching on the net for toppics on how to benchmark an Inventor PC. Then I thought whats the point of using gaming benchmark tools because Inventor is not a game and there are more aspects than just graphics performance when it comes to percieved performance on an Inventor PC right.
So we decided to create our own Inventor benchmark tool which tests various aspects of an Inventor PC to give us an overview of our PC's performance. This then helped us make a decision as to whcih pc's to replace.
We have made the tool available free of charge to anyone interested in checking how their PC stacks up to their peers or friends. 🙂
Please download it here and post your results here as well if you want. Would be interesting to see what beast workstations are out there.
I would like to say thanks to Kirk #karthur1, for helping in testing the app.
Please feel free to send any suggestions our way. There is an email link in the app.
The application will work with Inventor 2014 to 2016 only.
IMPORTANT: After installation there will be an Inventor Bench icon on your desktop that looks like this:
My resluts:
HP Elitebook 8560w with an SSD upgrade.
Here is the results with the resolution cranked down to 1920 x 1080 (or close to it for this monitor).
Inventor 2020, In-Cad, Simulation Mechanical
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Delta Tau Chi ΔΤΧ
That's more like it! The other 6700K users must have have been getting the extra point from an overclock.
If you're feeling brave, and your Asus AI Suite is like mine, there's a section in that called 5 way optimisation where you can go for a mobo controlled overclock... I used 4800MHz for my bench tests but don't run it daily.
Edit - minor point, you have 7700K in your signature instead of 6700K.
I'm sure I can crank out more with overclocking. I might get brave sometime and see what happens. I did run the ASUS tweek and it did give about 17% overclock for the standard base setting.
I did go with liquid cooling on this for both the CPU and GPU, it really quiet which I like.
Inventor 2020, In-Cad, Simulation Mechanical
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@mmaes Thanks for the heads up on the issues with the registry hack, I can't remember exactly what I said in the original note but I'm sure I would have given some disclaimer and that Autodesk don't support the use of it so I think I'm off the hook!... to be honest I'd also experienced the grey block issue with drawings but I didn't pin it down to being caused by the hack so I'm glad you mentioned that. Shame, it makes the FPS go crazy fast too.
That test is meaningless when considering Inventor. I've never heard of that SpecViewPerf thing, but as it isn't Inventor, it's like comparing a 980M to a K5100M for playing Grand Theft Auto... totally different things. That other program might be much better optimised to use the Quadro drivers, which is probably the reason why it's so much different. The 980M is slightly more powerful and based on newer architecture than the K5100M so the fact that this program performs better on the K5100M suggests it's probably purely down to the Quadro drivers.
Also they're laptops, so both laptops will be dramatically different, they'll have different CPUs, different RAM types, different motherboards, the chancea re the laptop with the K5100M in will be of higher spec all round to the one with the 980M in (just a guess). But either way it's not a fair and equal test.
Just out of interest why are you looking to get a 780 or K4000? They're previous generation cards and will probably be discontinued soon, the newer gen equivalent cards are always going better.
Unless they are going to test Inventor on two identical machines with only the graphics cards being different the results are meaningless with respect to Inventor. The software listed makes use of OpenGL.
Inventor 2020, In-Cad, Simulation Mechanical
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Delta Tau Chi ΔΤΧ
I'd be looking at a 970 over a 780, similar price but newer and built on Maxwell so it's more efficient. Bear in mind that Pascal is rumored to be coming out in June/July so all prices will drop after then, and the Pascal cards i.e. the GeForce 1070 will be roughly the same price as the 970 is now.
The 780 is still a strong card, very strong, but it's ageing now and many of the specs on the 970 are higher than the 780. Also don't forget, the GPU really doesn't make a great deal of difference in Inventor, there's dozens of pages of proof in this thread. The CPU is the money maker.
Congrats you've posted the lowest score so far! Haha
It can be normal on some laptops for the onboard graphics to be reported, I'm on an Alienware 17 R3 right now with a GeForce 980M installed but the bench tool reports the on-board CPU graphics because (annoyingly) they designed them to work together on this unit, they switch based on profiles.
You should have an Intel graphics application which allows you to specify which GPU is used for which application, might be worth making sure Inventor is set to use the discreet GPU rather than the integrated.
Also your CPU is average, 2 cores with hyperthreading, that'll not do much good for the graphics engine. Still though I would have expected better than what you're getting so take a look and see if you have that Intel application, if not, look on the manufacturers website for the software. I just downloaded a new version for mine today from the Dell website.
Which laptop is it? Which GPU too?
To add to this, in your system BIOS under the Hard Drive section, most laptop manufacturers have a "Quiet Mode". This reduces the hard drive read heads speed to quiet down the system and improve battery life. Changing this to Normal Operation will improve hard drive performance.
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Delta Tau Chi ΔΤΧ
Also make sure the laptop isn't running in Power Saver mode, that severely gimps almost everything. Go into power options and select high performance and see how the test goes.
Your warm start time of 22+ seconds indicates something isn't right. The SSD users are opening Inventor in ~3 seconds but it shouldn't take that long on a mechanical drive. Because you've only got 2 cores to play with, make sure you don't have a load of other junk running in the background as that could pull the 2 cores away from Inventor.
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