Passmark Performance Test Portable

[Ophelia Gurin]

PassMarkSoftware has delved into the millions of benchmark results that PerformanceTest users have posted to its web siteand produced four charts to help compare the relative performance of different video cards (lessfrequently known as graphics accelerator cards or display adapters) from major manufacturerssuch asAMD, nVidia, Intel and others. Higher quality video cards improve overall system performance formany computing activities such as PC gaming, video editing and software development. Recentlyintroduced AMD video cards (such as the AMD RX 6950 XT) and nVidia graphics cards (such as thenVidia GeForce RTX 3090) using the PCI-Express (or PCI-E) standard are common in our high endvideo card charts.

Rarely is a graph completely accurate in what it is representing. There are manyfactors thatcan skew the results and make a graph misleading. As such it is necessary to havesomebackground understanding of the data being presented.

In the case of these Video Card Benchmarks there are several factors to consider,such asdifferent system setups the Video Cards are running under and the possibility thatusershave overclocked their systems.... [ Learn more about thegraphs]

Download and install the latest version of PerformanceTest.

Start PerformanceTest then from the menu bar select "Tests -> Run All Tests".

Once the tests have run select "Baseline -> Upload Baseline to Web".

We have stopped providing charts for PerformanceTest V7 as of October 10, 2012.Users cancontinue to useV7 of the software and submit results, but the charts will no longer be updated withtheirresults.For users who want to refer back to V7 results, we have provided the following list. This list is forreference only and users are encouraged to visit the new charts which are generatedwithPeformanceTest V8and V9test submissions.

SOLIDWORKS Performance Test is a set of tests that compares your system against others. For more information, see about the SOLIDWORKS Performance Test. You can also Share Your Scores with other users.

Comprehensive performance evaluation software developed by the world's leading hardware vendors in cooperation with Dassault Systemes to exercise a full range of real-world graphics and CPU functionality.

The gist:

I used the free trial period of PassMark PerformanceTest to benchmark my machine. If you're willing to run a similar test, I'd really love to see the comparison. It will assess and stress-test CPU, memory, drive(s), 2D and 3D graphics. If you've got something else (that's free), feel free to run it on your software and just let me know which you used so I can grab it myself.

The background and expansion:

I had been using AutoCAD C3D 2014 for a while with relatively poor performance -- slow and choppy panning and zooming with 2D drafting, often locking up and crashing on anything more serious -- on a Dell M4800 with a Quadro K1100M card. More than enough per Autodesk's hardware specifications (the rest of the system, too). I upgraded to C3D 2019, and had slightly worse (than my already crappy) performance, and it was affecting my work substantially. I decided to buy/build a new machine myself. I had a custom computer built around the Quadro P4000 card. 2x 6-core Xeon E5-2640 CPUs, 64 GB RAM, SSD, P4000 GPU, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, very latest drivers and BIOS, etc.

I ran a benchmarking test on my machine, and found some interested results. The most surprising result was fairly low benchmark score on 2D graphics with this card. 3D graphics, I'm at 7369 or 86th percentile. 2D graphics, on the other hand, is 462 or 34th percentile. I'm not thrilled with my memory or disk benchmarks, but they're in the 60s for percentile, which suggests they're not the weak link.

Most of the drafting that I do is really 2D, mostly simple vector (linework and hatching), a little complex vector (solid-shaded hatching). There are 3D data, but everything I'm trying to render 99.9% of the time is 2D as far as the screen is concerned. And in an extended troubleshooting effort, I deleted all the stuff that really lands in complex vector, leaving essentially linework. I've done all the recommended cleanup and optimization stuff, trust me. I've followed forums, Autodesk articles, and been troubleshooting with Autodesk tech support for a week now. I've even done the painful clean uninstall of everything Autodesk, and reinstall, with rural internet speeds - 4-6 Mbps download. No luck.

Joel, would you be so kind as to run the 2D batch of tests once more for me, but screen grab the results of the full 2D battery of tests? I've got perfectly good Direct2D, and a couple other passable metrics, but simple vectors (28-34th percentile), complex vectors (8-9th percentile), and Windows interface (9th percentile) are just embarrassing. I realize there are a lot of factors at play, but that's why I'm doing everything I can to troublehsoot.

The informational message I got when I first launched AutoCAD:

"Hardware Acceleration is On, however, you may experience some perfromance issues as your graphics card does not meet the recommended criteria"

Thanks! I've figured out that the first gen E5-26xx series processors are great at math, but terrible at managing graphics interfaces. I got better 2D performance when my system couldn't identify a graphics card installed! I switched the CPU configuration from (2x) E5-2640s to (1) E5-1620, and the system was suddenly much better. Still not great, and not even close to taking advantage of the GPU's power. So...

I'm having a new system built. I had a computer built around the card, not realizing that there were a bunch of potential bottlenecks not directly related to the GPU. Now, only my lackluster CAD skills will be the bottleneck. I'm into this a bit more money, and a lot more time, than I originally intended. But the upside is I should have a screaming machine once this is all done. I'll post my results once it's all assembled and up and running.

What I've found is that the specs Autodesk recommends are very much a general guide. The keys to quick 2D performance, if that's your issue as well, are fast *single-thread* processing power/performance. a 52-core machine might be terrible at AutoCAD, and a 2- or 4-core might be great. I really tapped into PerformanceTest's database of performance benchmarks. Single-thread performance is the key for AutoCAD. What I've managed to glean is that at a minimum, I'd want something like this:

One more take-away - CAD best practices are your friend. The easier you make it for your machine to handle AutoCAD, the better. AutoCAD is a beast which has been developed over at least 30 years (I've been using some form of AutoCAD software since 1990), and though I'm no programmer, I'd wager there's a blank-slate rebuild necessary in the future.

Out of curiosity did you do a Pass mark Performance test with that PC build. Would you be willing to share it? I am looking at a PC that has about the same hardware specs. I am wondering what scores you received for overall, CPU and ram to compare to other PC workstations. Thinking about upgrading PC at my office.

I apparently didn't record them anywhere. The results were pretty similar to BlackBox's results above with the i7-7700k, but with higher CPU performance, as expected. Everything was in the mid to upper 90s. I think the 2D was something like 95th percentile. But basically apart from the CPU running *slightly* faster, same as above. Strong. If I could download the trial of Passmark again, I'd run it again for you.

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Passmark PerformanceTest is an award winning PC hardware benchmark utility that allows everybody to quickly assess the performance of their computer and compare it to a number of standard 'baseline' computer systems.

In addition to the standard tests, there are 7 summary results plus the overall "PassMark Rating" result. The benchmark results are presented as easy to read bar charts so that you don't need to spend hours studying the number to know the result. Timing for the tests is done using high resolution timers, which are accurate to approximately 1 millionth of a second on most PC's.

A major advantage is the support for built-in baseline results which allows you to compare computer systems (a baseline is a standard set of results from another computer). These baseline results can be used to determine how fast your computer is in comparison with other computer systems.

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