Ship-in-a-bottle benchmark 1

[Theophilus]

Hello,

I've noticed an increase in curiosity about new sytems for SolidWorks, what to get, etc. so I decided to run my new system through the ship-in-a-bottle benchmark to see where it stands. 50 iterations, 1280 x 1024 resolution, maximized.

High quality (image settings):
24.7 seconds
Low quality:
19.3

I downloaded Mike Wilson's macro and part:

http://www.mikejwilson.com/solidworks/solidworks_files-03.htm

and saved it in SW 2006 format before running the test. I also ran the test with my normal background processes going--email, browser with lots of windows, etc.--42 in all, since this is what it's normally like when I'm working.

My computer, from Xi:
AMD Athlon FX-60 chip (dual-core, 64-bit)
2GB RAM
MSI K8N-Neo4 motherboard
nVidia Quatro FX-1400 (express) graphics
Two 160 GB Western Digital Caviar SATA drives (wouldn't affect the benchmark results)

Jeff Mowry

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

47.5 secs
50 Iterations
1600 x 1200 resolution
SW2005
High Quality (Image)
P4, 2.8Ghz
1.5GB RAM
nVidia FX500




Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091

 

[kellnerp]

High quality (image settings):
24.7 seconds
Low quality:
19.3

Just a tad bit faster than my FX53

28 seconds
18 seconds

AMD64 FX53
NVidia FX3000

Also please try the rest of the benchmarks at:

http://www.engtran.com/SWBM001.html

 

[StefanHamminga]

High Quality: 45.7 seconds
Low Quality: 33.6 seconds

This was done on my laptop (my workstation's mainboard just went up in smoke):

1280x800 Resolution
Pentium Mobile 1600MHz
1GB Ram
Mobility FireGL T2 256MB
SSE2 kernel
Outlook, firefox, uTorrent, etc running in the background.


Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer/AI student

 

[kellnerp]

To bad Centrinos are only for laptops.

 

[Theophilus]

OK, I just did the STAR 2.1 benchmark. Average of three tests:

Time: 48.55s
Level: 5
Rebuild: 3.80s

The cool thing with the dual-core chip is that I don't use all the processor power while in SolidWorks. There are pros and cons. The pro is that I can research stuff on-line while SW cranks--or compose an email or whatever. The con is that SW doesn't yet use the second core with another thread.

Meanwhile, I like being able to do other things in the background if I know SW will be hacking for a while.



Jeff Mowry

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.

 

[dezignstuff]

Boxx Technologies
Athlon 64 FX57 processor (single core)
3 Mb RAM
80 Gb 10000 RPM drive
Quadro FX 3450



HI LO
24.4 18.2 edges shown
23.4 17.5 no edges
26.4 18.5 wireframe (not shaded)
27.3 18.9 hlr (not shaded)
25.3 19.2 hlg (not shaded)

Using low quality transparency, zooming out until invisible, changing from 16 to 32 bit colors and turning off the gradient background don't seem to improve things at all.


Moving the ship off the screen improved an 18.5 run to 17.75.


Reducing the size of the SW window from approx 1024x728 to 800x600 (system set up at 1600x1200 resolution) improved an 18.5 run to 17.5.


Reducing the graphics window to nothing (only can see the feature manager) reduces the 18.5 time to 15.8.

 

[kellnerp]

The FX-57 is pretty good them.

OK, I just did the STAR 2.1 benchmark. Average of three tests:

Time: 48.55s
Level: 5
Rebuild: 3.80s

Should do better. I get around 36 s on STAR. Which release of SW are you on?

http://www.engtran.com

http://www.niswug.org

 

[socalsolid]

Ship in a bottle benchmark:

$500 E-Machines system.
Athlon 64.
1GB RAM.
Onboard ATI Radeon Garphics.
1024 x 768 Resolution.
SW 2005

50 Iterations
High Qual. 30.54 sec
Low Qual. 22.3 sec

 

[Theophilus]

I think the FX-57 is faster as a single-threaded processor.

I'm running SP 3.1, 2006. Also, I'm doing these tests to represent what I do during the day in the background--42 processes including music, email, browser, freeware galore, etc.

socalsolid, sounds like a good deal on that machine. How does it do with the normal SolidWorks load? Stable?

Jeff Mowry

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.

 

[socalsolid]

Theophilus,

Works good for me so far. I don't put to much strain on the system as I mostly do tooling and fixture design, nothing with to many parts.

 

[kellnerp]

If you ran it on 2006 then the FX 57 is really fast.

http://www.engtran.com

http://www.niswug.org