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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.
What currency is that? Are you looking to get a prebuilt workstation from Dell or HP or are you able to build something yourself from sourced components?
That's an outrageous budget, at that price point you'll need to be very specific on which direction you want to go i.e. do you want a PC that just runs Inventor quite fast, or do you want a workhorse of a PC that'll beast out anything you throw at it. Even at that price there's no such thing as a PC which is best at everything though, so you'll need to know what you want from it.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/mqcpQV
If you're spending that much money, obviously don't just buy the first thing you see, you'll need to think about it and buy carefully. I've put 2x 1080 in SLI in that build but if I had up to 10k I'd probably go for 2x Titans which I can't put in that list, they need to be bought direct from NVIDIA. Things like CPU coolers, storage, the case, that's up to you.
Again, at that price up to 10k, I'd consider how I would be using the PC and possibly consider a 7810 from Dell with dual Xeons again depending on what you're planning on doing with it.
Good question. Inventor will still use 1 of the cards, the other will do nothing whilst using Inventor. But if you have 10k to spend, why not put in something like two Titans, it's not like the cash can be better spent somewhere else in the system... it's already the best that money can buy.
Regarding the CPU, at 5-10k you have your pick of anything on the market. The 6700K is brilliant, better than most people have and is affordable. But if money is no object, I'd still go for the best CPU on the market which is currently the 6950X and it can be overclocked to well over 4GHz. I'll not bog down the thread with details and stats so in a nutshell, if you're building a PC to win at this benchmark test then you'd go for a 6700K, if money is no object and you want the best real world performance with massive assemblies, I'd go for a 6950X or even the equivalent Xeon and get ECC RAM for that extra peace of mind.
If you're not hell bent on spending 5-10k then the 6700K is perfect.
If your friend wants a proper workstation with proper support though, buy a prebuilt Dell or HP with a Xeon, ECC RAM and a Quadro in.
I'm not sure if frame rates are the target of this build, I had interpreted the intended use as being general large assembly management rather than just have smooth navigation. But that's still open to interpretation I guess.
I still stand by the 6950X or a Xeon build being the best choice here. The 6700K and all logic coming out of this benchmark test is based on a single part light weight not very real world accurate, when you've got potentially 10,000 parts to handle (OP said massive scenes), having more CPU cache, more bandwidth, more cores, more memory channels, ECC RAM etc, in my view that's a different story to spinning around a single part in a bench test.
I overclocked a 2C G3258 to 4.3GHz and pulled massive frame rates in Inventor, but nobody should be putting one of those into a build which will see large assemblies.
Personally, and it's just me, if I was building myself a PC which I knew would be handling massive datasets, I'd forget all about bench tests and go for something reliable and powerful, bearing in mind that the devs are adding more multi-core support as each release comes.
Absolutely nothing learned from this benchmark test program, or discussed in this thread, should be used in the same breath as discussing the build requirements for a PC to handle large assemblies.
I'm not trying to disregard what anyone else is saying, all I'm saying is this test is based on testing Inventor with a single part, it's a quick and dirty test to compare one PC with another to find a bad apple.
At the 50k part level, this test doesn't mean anything.
Can you explain what will happen to these assemblies? What kind of designs are they? Are all the parts native Inventor models? Once someone has opened the assembly, what happens next.
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