PowerMill Benchmark | Hardware Setup

[RAL6000]

Hi together,

actually im looking around for a new Notebook and to get Feedback from others. I found a Thread on old delcam board with Hardware Setups and PowerMill Benchmarks.

I think it would be good to go on with this Benchmark Thread on this Forum.

Attached the Macro for making this Benchmark (source old delcam Forum!).

My Benchmark Results with PM2017 SP1:

Benchmark 1;00:04:29
Benchmark 2;00:10:36
Benchmark 3;00:07:14
Benchmark 4;00:09:59
Benchmark 5;00:14:18
Benchmark 6;00:17:54
Benchmark 7;00:07:27
Benchmark 8;00:13:05

Sum: 1h 25minutes

My Hardware:

Fujitsu Notebook from 2011/2012:

Processor: Intel Core i7 Extreme 2920XM @ 2,5GHZ

Memory: 8GB DDR3

Graphics: Nvidia Quadro 4000M, 2GB Memory

HDD: 256GB SATA-SSD

My Ideas for the next Notebook are:

DELL 7510

Intel i7-6920HQ, 4 Cores, 2,9Ghz, 3,8Ghz Turbo, 8MB Cache

16GB Memory, DDR4 2x8GB @ 2667Mhz, no EEC

Nvidia Quadro M2000M, 4GB DDR5

Display: IPS 15,6" FullHD

M.2-PCIe SSD 512GB and SATA 1TB @ 7.200rpm

Lithium Ion accu 6cell 91Wh with Express charge

Windows 10 Pro 64bit

Price is around 3000€ in Germany

an Alternative would be:

DELL 7710, following changes:

Nvidia Quadro M3000M, 4GB DDR5

Display IPS 17,3" FullHD

Price is around 3700€ in Germany

[NanchenO]

Hi RobotiX,

The new ones look very good ! I also made these tests with PM 2015 and 2016. If you have a look at the publicated results in Delcam's forum, you will notice that the best are given by the fastest processors, no matter if Xeon or Core i7.

Depending on your parts, a better video card and a bigger screen could be more comfortable.

Anyway, I don't think that you will notice a difference in the performances if the processor and the memory are the same. You can expect to +/- divide your calculation time by 2, since I needed about 39 min. with an Intel Xeon E3-1240 v3 @ 3.40 GHz.

Olivier

[RAL6000]

Does the Count of processor cores have effect on PowerMill if they are more then 4?

E.G. the XEON are avalable with 6+

[Anonymous]

i will run a benchmark on my computer and let you know the results

[NanchenO]

I'm not sure that more of 4 cores will have a big impact. As we saw with all Delcam's users' tests, the clock speed is definetly the important point.

I have run the same test with PM 2016 and 2017 and there are some differences within the functions, even if the total time is about the same. This means that PM 2016's results could be a little bit different with PM 2017.

Dell T1700 Intel Xeon E3-1240 v3 @ 3.40 GHz 16 GB RAM NVIDIA Quadro K600 1GB SPCC 240 GB SSD Win 7-64 / PM2016
Benchmark 1	Ebauche 3D	0:02:49
Benchmark 2	Balayage	0:05:41
Benchmark 3	Z constant	0:04:43
Benchmark 4	Créer mat. Restante	0:08:37
Benchmark 5	Reprise d'ébauche 3D	0:08:39
Benchmark 6	Décalage 3D	0:09:09
Total		0:39:41

Dell T1700 Intel Xeon E3-1240 v3 @ 3.40 GHz 16 GB RAM NVIDIA Quadro K600 1GB SPCC 240 GB SSD Win 7-64 / PM2017 SP1
Benchmark 1	Ebauche 3D	0:03:14
Benchmark 2	Balayage	0:05:52
Benchmark 3	Z constant	0:04:44
Benchmark 4	Créer mat. Restante	0:05:19
Benchmark 5	Reprise d'ébauche 3D	0:09:43
Benchmark 6	Décalage 3D	0:09:11
Total		0:38:5

Différence 2016 / 2017
13%
3%
0%
-62%
11%
0%
-4%

Olivier

[TK.421]

thanks @RAL6000!  I used this macro years ago and must have deleted it. Glad you found it and shared!