SWX Benchmark 2001Plus grafic performance

[Stefan Berlitz]

There are some huge differences with the new SolidWorks
Benchmark especially in the grafic performance area.
I did some testing on that and now get any idea what is
going on there.

I did all tests on my old computer which is equipped
with a PIII/1000 MHz, 512 MB SDRAM, Windows 2000 SP2
and an ELSA Gladiac 411, which is basically a NVidia
GeForce 2 MX with 64 MB SDRAM and the 23.11 detonator
driver. I did only the grafic tests and the values
are an average of 5 runs.

Now for the results:

Suite 1: Performance settings as demanded, large assembly
mode as SolidWorks default (treshold 700, remove details,
hide all planes etc, automatic activate: always), shaded
views
Result: 123

Suite 2: like suite 1, but also set remove details during
pan/zoom/rotate on the normal performance options
result: 81 (!)

Suite 3: like suite 1, but activated display HLR edges in
shaded mode (for the nice pictures)
Result: 211

Suite 4: like suite 3, but set large assembly mode to
never activate (so the engine is MUCH slower)
Result: 1029 (!!!!)

I think that's it, if you deactivate large assembly mode
or uncheck "remove details" for this the benchmark results
will grow like crazy. I haven't tested further on, but I'm
sure you can even get some worser results :-))

For the only idea behind a benchmark is to have a test
suite which gives repeatible and comparable results I
recommend that you activate large assembly mode and check
the "remove details" option for that. (like suite 1)

Why? In SolidWorks 2001Plus there are these very nice
settings and without these settings the results are
a) not as your working environment and b) very frustating.

BTW, the results on my result page at
http://solidworks.cad.de/int_swxbench10.htm
are all with the suite 1 settings.

HTH,
Stefan

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[Mike J. Wilson]

This sounds like good info for the SolidWorks FAQ.
It would be nice to have a list of settings (or even
screenshots) to make the test fair.

Thanks Stefan,
Mike Wilson

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[Stefan Berlitz]

"Mike J. Wilson" <mwi...@sigmathree.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:3ce26...@goliath2.newsgroups.com...

> This sounds like good info for the SolidWorks FAQ.
> It would be nice to have a list of settings (or even
> screenshots) to make the test fair.

I should have thought of that on my own *sigh*

I'm out of business until June, but as soon as
I'm back I will set up a website with the screenshots
with the settings. I really expected the benchmark
itself to set these options as it would recommend
them or at least to have that included in the helppage.

BYe,
Stefan