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?
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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?
Revit won't yet utilize two cores, except for rendering.
Andre Carvalho
No, Revit is a single-threaded application, and is not well-suited to multi-threading. Only rendering can use your extra cores.
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
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?