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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.
I suspect there's an alarming amount of people who might still not know that though, and need to see actual proof.
I imagine big businesses are going to always use the professional cards for the certification and peace of mind that is 'supposed' to come with that.
Neil
After watching your video I downloaded a new driver for my K3000M display card, was hoping for a greater performance boot, only incremented up about 3 or 4 frames per second. Decided to un dock from Dell E Dock, Wow, doubled the frame rate.
Thanks
Now if I could get my Dell R7610 to perform as well as this laptop.
Thanks Alex. In theory when you move to a higher resolution you'll drop FPS as your hardware is pushing more pixels, but it should be minimal. When the GPU is spitting 150fps, the human eye is unlikely to see the difference if you get to increase that even further. The benefits will come when you then work on something heavy, again in theory a PC which can spit out 200fps on a lightweight visual test should scale better with big assemblies than a PC which was pushing out 100fps on the test.
I think, off memory, your PC beat both mine and Daniels on the Drawing Test Results which I believe is a multi-threaded operation
@Raider_71 in the manual benchmarking I was doing over xmas, one of my tests was ray tracing and obviously the PC with the highest total combined GHz won hands down. Obviously it's entirely up to you which benchmarks you put in and how easy they are to code, but my testing was as follows:
1. Time it takes to simply enable ray tracing in the graphics window (not Inventor studio environment). On larger models it took up to 2 minutes just to switch on ray tracingm that was before it began the ray tracing passing.
2. Time it takes to completely finish basic quality ray traving.
3. Enable High Quality, record time it takes to reach 'smooth' quality. If you wait for some PCs to finish high quality ray tracing it could take hours!
4. Disable RT, make sure all shadows, reflections are on, perspective mode, Realistic visual mode, plain room IBL, then record FPS on a free orbit. Note if visual effects are dropped or retained during orbit.
i have just run the bench mark test on new computer and quite happy considering iam not up on it all just threw some randoms parts together really. dont know why i still have 2 slots left could someone explain please?
Nothing says you need to all your slots filled with memory, your 2 x 8Gb will still be 16gB, no different than if you had 4 x 4Gb to give you 16bGb
Inventor 2020, In-Cad, Simulation Mechanical
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I highly doubt it'll ever be a factor for the work that our PC's do, but there is slightly more strain put onto the memory controller with 4 sticks which in turn can take power away from the CPU if you're running quad channel. But from what I've read, it's minimal, so minimal it's not going to be noticeable. The biggest benefit of going with 2 sticks is that you have x2 empty slots to expand into when you feel like upgrading.
You might see some improvements in the DirectX from v10 to v11 but I don't think it would amount to much. Besides, M/S wants everyone to be on Win10 anyways and the older systems are being dropped from support.
Inventor 2020, In-Cad, Simulation Mechanical
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Delta Tau Chi ΔΤΧ
@Anonymous what do you have your 6700k overclocked to? You're beating my 4790k at 4.8GHz! 
The results of this Benchmark tool certainly seem to suggest CPU speed > CPU cores. I turned my CPU down to just 2 cores without hyperthreading but kept the 4.8 GHz overclock and it still gave impressive results!
Spoiler
The FPS on this test was lower, however a previous test showed little FPS difference... I have no idea why.
I overclocked my GPU by about 10% and saw a ~10% increase in FPS but this goes against @Neil_Cross findings... maybe it's because I'm running nearer to 60fps than 160??? Reducing my screen resolution from 4k to 1080p actually helped the CPU intensive tasks, I think this may be because less of the CPU's resources are spent feeding the GPU
I hope this was helpfull to you.
For anyone interested in my cpu specs:
i7 4790k at 4.8GHz 1.295v
Sapphire R9 290 TriX 1100MHz GPU and 1400MHz Memory
Samsung 840 Evo
Samsung XP941 (not used in these tests)
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