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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... ๐
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. ๐
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.
2yrs...
I hardly model/draw in inventor anymore...or in any package. Working for a company that does civil infrastructure and not mech. So any thing I draw is simple and then transferred to another program, so I haven't really noticed it.
Shows how out of touch I am I guess...
hotfixes installed and software switch off.
And my laptop...
The bench test is just automation, it does the exact same thing over and over again, any variation is caused by external factors (and it's rock solid and proven at this point, 100% reliable). I've ran this thing more times than I've ran a shower (exaggeration but y'know) and I've never had anywhere near that much of a variation between successive runs, on a clean PC it typically stays within the same tenth of a point i.e. 13.14, 13.12, 13.16 etc
In worst cases I've had it deviates by around a full point, but never by 3.
If my PC or laptop was reducing by 3 points after successive runs, the first thing I'd look at would be the thermals, that sounds like something is overheating and under-clocking itself to cool down, and performance dramatically suffers whilst that happens. Apologies if you know this but that's known as thermal throttling.
If the temps are alright, I'd then look at shutting down all the background running apps to make sure there isn't anything firing up in the background calling all cores to work for it during the test.
@Jason.kc it's just how the bench tool reports the graphics adaptor, laptops have two adaptors but the tool can only report one, and usually the onboard adaptor is primary as it's used on battery to save energy. There is a chance that Inventor might be using the onboard graphics instead of the Quadro, you'd have to go into your Nvidia Control Panel and make sure the Inventor profile is forced to use the High Performance card.
Dunno what kind of laptop you have, but if you have HP, they actually allow you to completely disable the onbaord graphics and just run the Quadro. Not good for battery mode but it's peace of mind that you're always running at max power. I did a video on that a while back, again, only valid for HP though:
100% agree with you about the graphics and cpu for the score. Wonder what a single core speed/overclock you'd need for those truly high scores.
@Anonymous change your screen resolution to 1920x1080 then do the test again, it isn't a comparable score to everyone else if you do it at 4K. I think you'll be in the upper 15's if you run the test at 1080p, but then obviously do your work at 4K.
I have tested with a slower graphics card, I've got around 12 graphics cards here, from rubbish ones through to the best that money can buy and several in-between.
Inventor isn't GPU limited, it would be impossible because it isn't GPU accelerated.
It's proven and demonstrated, there are videos out there of tests where a GPU has been swapped out and a lower powered one put in, and the Inventor graphical results are the same. This area hasn't been up for debate for years, it was put to bed and settled years ago.
@Anonymous wrote:
As i said, this is a recent change, 2020. have you compared those as well ? Don't dismiss something just because it has been true earlier.
I hear what you're saying but you're implying a lot of things in that statement, I'm not sure if you know my background (I'll not go into it) but there's absolutely no chance that I'd miss and not notice that kind of a change from version to version. And completely rewriting Inventor to being GPU accelerated is not something they'd do and not tell anyone about, it would need extensive beta testing first, which I'm part of.
Anyway, I've got around 8 different PCs and laptops here which I can hook up to a 4K panel so I'll do a couple of tests and report back.
I think my main PC is losing the plot. Either way, if there was ever 10000000% proof that Inventor doesn't use your GPU, not that it's needed at this point, this is it...
That's from 2x 2080Ti's in SLI
@nutral If the GPU was powering those graphics figures, how could two 2080Ti's score 139MHz but a measly RX 580 does this...
It's because the CPU is responsible for the graphics, even in 2020.
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