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.

[salariua]

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blackmarket_riot wrote:

Also while Skylake is an incremental improvment over our Devils Canyon apparently Intel have done some mad wizardry on it and invented some sort of inverse hyperthreading. Multiple cores can be used to replicate a single, bigger more powerful core. I'm not sure how well it actually works in real world work but it's certainly a step in the right direction!

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Got me reading on all sorts of forums and blogs about the Inverse Hyperthreading. rummor dismissed by Intel while individual tests show better performance however some report that his has to do with Global Shortage of Skylake processors, and anouncing this will increase the demand !?!?! and it also seems that this needs to be activated on the OS side. wonder if it's just for i7 or m i5 will do?

And then there's VISC soft-machines:

“The VISC architecture achieves 3-4 times more instructions per cycle (IPC), resulting in 2-4 times higher performance per watt on single- and multi-threaded applications. Moreover, VISC uses a light-weight “virtual software layer” that makes VISC architecture applicable to existing as well as new software ecosystems.”

Sorry for the detour, got excited for a minute.

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Just for general interest here is a comparison of 14 different machines, 2 of which are laptops (the ones that don't have NVIDA cards).

Click for full size image

[salariua]

I went AS FAR AS I could from the Quadro. I have a K5000 at work and I am not happy with it.

Import a simple autocad sketch into a part and leave it visible, then place the part inside an assembly and try the spin and pan. I haven’t run the numbers but sometimes it seems like 1fps. 😞

The gaming card on the other side is running smooth and I see no lagging at all.

[Neil_Cross]

@salariua That's weird, the K5000 is a hefty powerful card.  What are the rest of the bits in that PC? I used MSI Afterburner to track real time FPS in Inventor, if you want to see what the actual FPS as you're going.  I found the built in Hz display enabled through the registry to be irritating and too jumpy.  I wouldn't give up on the K5000 though, it sounds like something else isn't right

[AlexFielder]

Thanks @Raider_71! Is this page any help:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6923763/how-to-get-cpu-frequency-in-c-sharp

🙂

[salariua]

I wish you were right! Take a look at the chart posted by Curtis or my specs at work, and compare FPS with ANY gaming card. This has been proven before, gaming cards raking higher than workstation cards and on the gaming cards, ATI (AMD) ranking higher than Nvidia (Intel).

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The gaming graphics cards beat each company's workstation boards by a significant margin. Nvidia's GeForce GTX Titan doesn’t do well at all, ending up behind the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. AMD's FirePro cards also excel in this benchmark, which is probably due to the many hidden surfaces involved in the workload (generally considered a strength of AMD's architecture).

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workstation gaphics

and

Newer cards included 

[Raider_71]

Hi @AlexFielder

Thats what I currently use to get the system information. The Win32_Processor class does not report the overclocked CPU speed unfortunitaly... 😞

Cheers

[salariua]

I seem to have Object Shadows on now! In Tools, Options, Display, Settings (Display Appearance) I see Object Shadows ticked.

It's been annoying me all day and then I realized something must have changed with the speed test or from the several crashes I had today.

Anyone?

Edit: Ambient shadows as well it seems.

[Torben.pedersen]

here are Recommending settings to optimize performance of Inventor.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcartic...

[Ray_Feiler]

Test before recommended settings.

Test after.

Discuss

[karthur1]

Am I looking at this right?.... only marginal gains on the CPU test and it actaully got slower on the GPU test.

If that is correct, it would be better to go back to the "Before" setup.

Kirk

[Ray_Feiler]

Yep, that is what happened to me at least. It is nice to have this tool to compare what settings actually help performance and which ones don't.

[blackmarket_riot]

@Neil_Cross the Auto OC utilities often pump too much voltage into the CPU and generates a huge amount of heat! I've got the same cooler as you H100i and I'm comfortable at 4.8GHz with my manual OC (90-95 C under stress testing though!). 4.6-4.7 GHz is pretty typical for the 4790k to max out at, you might have gotten lucky and nabbed yourself a good overclocker!

@salariua that's interesting what you saying about the inverse hyperthreading, how significant was the increase people were seeing in their tests? The Skylakes seem to be topping the charts in this benchmark, and some with much lower clock speeds!

[blair]

Here's my Mac Book Pro, running El Capitain with Parallels 11. with Windows 10. I figured the performance would suffer more than it would with all the overhead that's required.

[CadUser46]

The CPU tasks seem very close to mine in Bootcamp but the gprahics must suffer slightly more in the VM.

[blair]

Yes, with Parallels, you can set the number of cores and amount of memory and graphics memory you want for your virtual machine. Since you are running a O/S within another O/S, you end up splitting your resourses across a couple of machines. In affect your are running two machines on a single hardware.

My main machine at home is running Boot Camp as well.

[RobertWK]

Inventor 2016, 64-bit.

[mojtaba77f]

Hello,

how can i get Inventor bench?

[Neil_Cross]

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@mojtaba77f wrote:

Hello,

how can i get Inventor bench?

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First page of this thread, first post, and click the dropbox link 

[Neil_Cross]

Good score that @RobertWK