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.

[Mario-Villada]

Also, make sure you are saving the benchmark files to your SSD, this is accomplished by setting "My documents" folder location in C: drive (I assume you SSD is your C: drive)

[AdrianC]

Two tests in a row.

AMD build, with all the background apps running, and AMD balanced plan. I've turn off most of the Auto settings in the bios and running AMD defaults with PBO disabled.

[leowarren34]

@AdrianC I can't remember what page the leaderboard was on but that is one of the best results with an AMD CPU I've seen.

[phlyx]

Sorry for not getting on the forums yesterday, busy day for sure.  Last night our IT guru worked on my PC and re-did the cooling system mount to the processor and today running XTU my max temp was 66°C, a world better than yesterday.  But that being said, still only XTU 2719 Marks which is terrible and much worse than RNDinov8r with supposedly the exact same setup.  Also re-ran Inventor Bench and pretty much stayed the same at only 9.97 with ridiculously slow Model Save Time results at 10.8s where most users at around 3 to 4.  Any clues as to why two identical PC's would have such different results, different max frequencies, and why both RNDinov8r and my write times ate sooooo sloooow?

[pball]

@AdrianC @leowarren34 

That is the best AMD score I've seen and unless I've missed any 14+ scores in the last 20 pages of the thread it's the #3 top user score yet. When I'm bored I'll have to troll through the thread and update my list, then make a publicly available list.

[phlyx]

Also found this today in differences between these supposedly identical workstations:

Differences from XTU

Graphics Driver

Phlyx- 26.20.11024.1 – 6/11/19

RNDinov8r- 26.20.13001.23001 – 7/28/19

Windows 10 Pro

Phlyx- 10.0.18367

RNDinov8r- 10.0.17763

BIOS

Phlyx- 0905 – 4/10/19

RNDinov8r- 1105 – 6/6/19

And even though we downloaded XTU only a couple days apart I am running 6.5.1.360 and RNDinov8r is running 6.5.1.371

[RichM1]

Did you uncheck that box? I posted it 3 times but never got a response.

[phlyx]

Never was on....

[leowarren34]

@pball Once you do make the leaderboard, any chance of making a new thread? As it'll just get buried in this thread again.

[phlyx]

Kind of agree with the previous post.  There's several conversations going on at the same time.  Going to start a new forum message for our application so we can keep everything together.

[AdrianC]

I was initially planning to build an Intel system, but then I brushed up on current tech and decided to go with AMD.

I managed to grab a 3950x on release and build a system around that. Not as fast as 9900K, I rather have more cores since I use this PC for many things.

[leowarren34]

AMD has made quite a comeback and is viable for more applications than they used to be, the prices atm are great for the performance, the only area Team Red hasn't taken over is the Enterprise (Xeon) but that's more down to Intel being so dominant for the past few years

[cfagerst]

My work PC, 9900K/Vega56 on stock settings. Extensive test 10 cycles:

[cfagerst]

9900K overclocked to 5.1GHz on 1-2cores:

[Neil_Cross]

That's mental.

You must have done something as a dozen people already have posted 9900K results nowhere near 16

[tom_vierling]

Do we know if Intel Optane drives affect Inventor at all? That's the only thing I can see in there that looks different from most of the other high scores we usually see....

[cfagerst]

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@Neil_Cross wrote:

That's mental.

You must have done something as a dozen people already have posted 9900K results nowhere near 16

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Nothing too exotic. Apps options mostly stock, Quality preset, spell check and update properties on save disabled in General tab.

Used to get 13-14 IPI on 2020.0, updated to 2020.2 and excluded all Autodesk related stuff (folders, extensions, process) in my AV (Windows Defender) which improved 2d creation times quite a bit. Model save folder on C: drive, and also excluded in AV. Inventor and invetorbench stock install on C:, default.ipj with the default designdata paths in use. C -drive is the A-Data XPG Gammix S11 240GB drive. D -drive is a 3TB Toshiba HDD with Optane acceleration by a 16GB Optane M.2 Card, but no Inventor related content should be there...

Lastly I applied the reg tweak you mention on page 87 in this thread (usemultithread 1 -> 0, Thanks for this advice!:)), that got FPS up from 200-ish to 270 on shaded/w edges and +5-10 for wireframe too, plus a few fractions of seconds shaved off the modelling and 2d creation times too.

[bwatson1967]

@cfagerst Can you show me how to get to that reg tweak you speak of. Lastly I applied the reg tweak you mention on page 87 in this thread (usemultithread 1 -> 0, Thanks for this advice!:))

[cfagerst]

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@bwatson1967 wrote:

@cfagerst Can you show me how to get to that reg tweak you speak of. Lastly I applied the reg tweak you mention on page 87 in this thread (usemultithread 1 -> 0, Thanks for this advice!:))

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Sure, it was from message 1729 by Neil Cross and went like this:

"If you want to see this in action, go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion24.0\System\Preferences\GraphicsUtil

There's a key in there called "UseMultiThreading" if you change that value to 0, reload Inventor, re-run the bench test, you'll get a significantly higher frame rates."

Link to message: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/how-fast-is-your-inventor-pc-really/m-p/9228641#M77293...

[leowarren34]

@tom_vierling Optane is just insanely low latency so in a benchmark would do really well, as much I would like Optane price to performance isn't near NVME (NVME is much cheaper for a given capacity)

@cfagerst That's insane, 16 is nuts, how does it perform outside of benchmark relative to when it was 13-14?