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.

[Timothy.Ward2]

Get the fastest read write you can afford TBH. Most modern boards will have a NVMe (I got a WD Black SN850 1TB which is allegedly the fastest you can get)

[Neil_Cross]

PCIe based NVMe drive, get it because it's best for overall system experience, it's unlikely you'll see any noticeable improvement in load or save times when going for faster versions of already fast PCIe based SSDs.  In fact it's unlikely you'll notice a difference from a SATA based SSD to a PCIe based SSD.  Very soon we'll be able to verify this.

[Neil_Cross]

Dear all - InvMark for Autodesk Inventor is released.  Full assembly benchmark testing with FEA, Dynamic Sim, ray tracing, large drawing compute, and tons more with a public leaderboard.

You can download it from here 

The leaderboard is here

My short introductory video announcement

I'll create a new thread rather than completely ruin this one, but there you go, after 14 months of intense development we're ready to go!

[mikejones]

Hmmm, just tried the installation but get an installation error.

There is a problem with this Windows Installer Package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor.

Any ideas?

[tgregory3G7FA]

I got the same Windows Installer Package error.

There is a problem with this Windows Installer Package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor.

[pball]

Are you by chance not on windows 10?

[Neil_Cross]

There's 2 installation issues that we know of, that we couldn't resolve prior to release but the ones we know about are going to be super rare.

See this https://youtu.be/ilAC-JSRoy4?t=303

[tgregory3G7FA]

Inventor 2021 only runs on Windows 10.

So yes.

[Neil_Cross]

check that Webview runtime that I mention, if it isn't that let me know ASAP.  We're not aware of any other installation issues other than that one.

[tgregory3G7FA]

Uninstalling Edge WebView2 Runtime worked for me.

[Neil_Cross]

Amazing, thanks for letting me know.  That's a relief.  We weren't sure if anyone would have that installed already as its not part of any Adsk software that I know of, but we are working on getting the installer to ignore or replace it rather than error out.

[mikejones]

I'm on windows 10 

[pball]

Well 2021 will actually install and run on Windows 7, wouldn't suggest it but it works.

Edge WebView2 Runtime was also my install issue.

[mikejones]

The Windows Edge WebView2 Runtime was the cause of my fail too. All done now

[Neil_Cross]

Thanks for the clarification, I'm escalating that issue super quick as clearly more people have that installed than we realised.  Curious to know if you know what it was installed by for you?

FYI we did no testing of InvMark on Windows 7 - so I honestly couldnt tell you if it even installs and works on that, from my point of view its Win10 only as we're following the official sys requirements of Inventor

[Neil_Cross]

btw - I know this thread has become legend, possibly the biggest ever on the community site.  But this is for InventorBench, out of respect for Pieter I don't want to hijack it and any discussions here regarding a completely different benchmark tool could confuse new comers too.  I suggest taking any discussions for InvMark over to https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/invmark-by-tfi-amp-cadac-inventor-performance-hardware...

[Raider_71]

Well done Neil. You beat me to the finish line… 😊
Anyways InventorBench HD is nearly there…

[Neil_Cross]

Thanks man, looking forward to seeing what you've got 😉

After going through what I've gone through regarding getting Inventor to behave, I have massive respect for how reliable you made InventorBench.

[Neil_Cross]

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[Timothy.Ward2]

Ok So i have been doing some testing since last week. If anyone is interested. going from a £100 second-hand Radeon GPU to a 2.2K GPU (at current prices) made a little improvement.  Bestt iBest improvment was swapping out the CPU. which we all knew anyway lol