How fast is your Inventor PC really?

[Raider_71]

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.

Download and Install

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.

[proj964]

how about a hard drive that is failing and going through lots of recovery?

[Neil_Cross]

If the hard disk was failing I reckon the user would fast know about it and it wouldn't be wise to work on that under the threat of imminent spontaneous doom.

[Anonymous]

j'ai testé mon portable un MSI GX 70

MSI GX70 3BE AMD A-5750M ES @ 4 GHZ a 1.33V 8GB 1866mhz cas10 gpu 8970M 950/1250

http://valid.x86.fr/x5rhxr

[Anonymous]

I am very proud of this notebook full AMD 1.5 for the mobile AMD is excellent

je suis tres fiere, de ce notebook full AMD a 1,5 pour du AMD mobiles c'est excellent

[Anonymous]

here is my scores, and you can see that this is the most important cpu

files Excel

[Anonymous]

Hmm.

I just started the test tomorrow morning directly after booting the pc. nothing new. the score was 1,79, with saving time of 101 seconds. neil_cross is right i think. if the ssd is damaged, then i would know about it. So at the moment i have no idea where the bottleneck could be....

but thats not a big problem. Inventor 2015 works fine on our system and in a few week we will have new hardware and Inventor 2017.... 😉 

Greetings from germany,

Michael

[Raider_71]

Hi @Anonymous

Can you check where your "My Documents" folder is located? Is it located on one of your local drives or on a network drive?

That could also contribute a lot to slow save and modelling times.

Cheers

[Anonymous]

@Raider_71 As far as i can see, "Eigene Dokumente" is on the SSD "C:"......

[Raider_71]

I think that PC may be possessed... 

A good cleanup and reinstallation of everything is maybe a good idea as I can't believe a PC with those specs can be that slow. Its not the latest and greatest but it should get a score better than that.

[Anonymous]

Oh my goodness. A possessed PC. Do we need an exorcism..... ?!?!?! 😉 Ok. Like a said before. These are the last few weeks in the lifetime of this PC, so we work with it and wait for the new ones.......

[Anonymous]

Before doing anything other, check the drive with

CrystalDiskInfo https://www.computerbase.de/downloads/systemtools/festplatten/crystaldiskinfo/

and

CrystalDiskMark http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html

[Anonymous]

@Anonymous SSD checked with the tools. all good.....

[Neil_Cross]

It doesn't look like a faulty hdd, the modeling time and graphics scores are also disproportionate to the hardware. It's weird, the warm restart and drawing scores are actually very high but then it grinds to a halt during the other tests...suggesting a background process kicking in at random points. Or you could have faulty cpu cores. Who knows.

[mdavis22569]

? ...have you been tracking the scores ..or a Top Ten?

I think Mcgyver asked ..   Curious what the highest on this forum was.   One person said he got 12.8 or 12.7    

[Neil_Cross]

No there isn't a top ten, but yes the top score was around 12.8 I think maybe distorted from that registry hack I found which dramatically turbo'd the visual scores.  DA gave me a shifty workaround which could possibly let me pull all the attached images from the thread but as of yet I haven't had a go at it yet, combination of being very busy and waiting for the scores coming in from people upgrading to GeForce 10 series and Quadro P cards.

i bought the 1070 but also considering the Titan X, I know a Titan X won't make any difference to Inventor over a 1070 but it makes for an entertaining video.

[mdavis22569]

I'm greedy .. So I'm clocking it all this weekend when I get another 16 gig's for ram ... I want more than 12,07   ..lol

Which 1070 did you get?

[machiel.veldkamp]

Maybe vault?

[Anonymous]

Hi Guys, We are trying to replace the machines for our engineers. We have had no luck from anything we are suggesting as there is a negative to everything else when dealing with Inventors problems. They are running very large complex models. They are prepared to trade everything else off to run Inventor and AutoCad faster. If you had a basically unlimited budget to buy the best Inventor Workstation you can (running dual 30" and 2560x1600), what would be your choice? (they will be custom spec'd Dell or HP workstations) Thanks

[mdavis22569]

I7 6800 4.0 or higher ...    or I7 Extreme Skylake or X (1000.00 right there)

32 - 64 gig's ram

and I love my video card ...Asus Strix GTX1070 

and a 500 gig SSD ...

I'm currently at home running an i7 6800 4.0ghz, with 32 gigs' ram, and the Asus cad finishing with a 250 gig SSD.  I pulled a 12.17 on this test yesterday.  I haven't had ANY issues with anything I'm tried opening or working with. 


We build a machine with an I7 extreme for our CFD's models and we called it Beast.. 

[mdavis22569]

@Neil_Cross

I think I just topped the best one on here if it was 12,7 ...

before I post it ..just curious what is the record...