Quad processors

[Marauder.X]

I have quad processors on my machine, yet Revit Arch & Revit MEP only tag one at a time. Is there a way to get all four cranking on some of the tougher tasks?

[Andre Carvalho]

Revit won't yet utilize two cores, except for rendering.

Andre Carvalho

[tomnewsom]

No, Revit is a single-threaded application, and is not well-suited to multi-threading. Only rendering can use your extra cores.

[truevis]

Yeah, I wonder if it is actually a step backwards to go from 2 to 4 cores for Revit except for rendering.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=382

[muttlieb]

Yeah, I wonder if it is actually a step backwards to go from 2 to 4 cores for Revit except for rendering.

Unless I missed something, I don't see how the link you posted (a review of an AMD processor from Nov. '06) relates to your comment above. Are you implying Revit would be slower if it were multi-threaded?

[ron.sanpedro]

Yeah, I wonder if it is actually a step backwards to go from 2 to 4 cores for Revit except for rendering.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=382

Not a step backwards, but if you habitually work in Revit and nothing else, probably a wasted effort as two cores gives Revit one and the OS one. But if you sometimes have iTunes running, or check e:mail in Outlook while Revit Reloads Latest, etc. then the four cores will by you better multitasking performance, for not very much expense over an X2 CPU.

Gordon

[truevis]

Unless I missed something, I don't see how the link you posted (a review of an AMD processor from Nov. '06) relates to your comment above. Are you implying Revit would be slower if it were multi-threaded?

Yeah sorry -- old article.

We are all waiting for multi-threaded Revit.

Tom's Hardware wrote last year "if you can get a quad core of similar clock speed for only a little premium over the dual core, go for it; if not, stick to a reasonably priced dual core."

All the more reason for Revit benchmarking. Thus we can make the wisest price/performance decisions, eh?

[Marauder.X]

Thus we can make the wisest price/performance decisions, eh?

Yeah, like wait until Revit is finished before using. It's a painful waste of time waiting on a 500,000 sqft building to refresh in MEP.