Hardware Benchmarks using the AB300 Journal

[Simon.Whitbread]

Hi Phil

Laptop HP NW9440
Centrino Duo CPU T7400 @ 2.16GHz
Nvidia Quadro FX 1500m

Couple of things...

AllowPressAndDrag - not in ini file (mine anyway)

Attached results but not complete, came to an end with the 'enter interactive mode' button while trying to export views

18 opening and loading the custom template
15 creating the floors levels and grids.
48 creating a group of walls and doors
80 modifying the group by adding a curtain wall
33 creating the exterior curtain wall
17 creating the sections
16 changing the curtain wall panel type
15 creating a perspective view
5 changing the curtain wall panel pleat
40 changing the levels height
94 update group to maintain level to level height
90 render a 3d view
14 export different views

[Simon.Whitbread]

Had a look into why it wasn't working...

• You need a subfolder called AUBench-Output under the first folder ( C:\AUBench\AUBench-Output )

so - results are:

17 opening and loading the custom template
15 creating the floors levels and grids.
47 creating a group of walls and doors
80 modifying the group by adding a curtain wall
34 creating the exterior curtain wall
16 creating the sections
16 changing the curtain wall panel type
15 creating a perspective view
5 changing the curtain wall panel pleat
41 changing the levels height
94 update group to maintain level to level height
91 render a 3d view
246 export different views
8 save the project

-pc running XP only, so you can benchmark against a virgin machine ( I can't account for all the software cr4p loaded though )

[GuyR]

AMD 64X2 4.4Ghz, 2GB RAM, 10K HD's,8600 nVidia, WinXP 32:

12, opening and loading the custom template
10, creating the floors levels and grids.
46, creating a group of walls and doors
91, modifying the group by adding a curtain wall
33, creating the exterior curtain wall
13, creating the sections
17, changing the curtain wall panel type
15, creating a perspective view
5, changing the curtain wall panel pleat
46, changing the levels height
103, update group to maintain level to level height
89, render a 3d view
277,export different views
8,save the project
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Total : 765

[dfriesen]

Thanks to those who worked in developing this benchmark - should be very useful in determining hardware needs!

Desktop PC
WinXP Pro
Core2Duo x6800 2.93
4GB RAM
ATI FireGL 3400


9 opening and loading the custom template
7 creating the floors levels and grids.
33 creating a group of walls and doors
64 modifying the group by adding a curtain wall
34 creating the exterior curtain wall
9 creating the sections
12 changing the curtain wall panel type
9 creating a perspective view
4 changing the curtain wall panel pleat
30 changing the levels height
73 update group to maintain level to level height
72 render a 3d view
181 export different views
6 save the project
543 TOTAL

[sfaust]

Intel Core2 @ 2.66GHz, 3.5GB RAM, WinXP Pro SP2, NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500

8 opening and loading the custom template
7 creating the floors levels and grids.
34 creating a group of walls and doors
62 modifying the group by adding a curtain wall
25 creating the exterior curtain wall
9 creating the sections
12 changing the curtain wall panel type
11 creating a perspective view
4 changing the curtain wall panel pleat
31 changing the levels height
75 update group to maintain level to level height
79 render a 3d view
193 export different views
6 save the project

556 Total

[Gordon.Price]

Now on my home machine I have run a few tests, and noticed some interesting things. The first launch of Revit does seem to be slower (15 seconds vs 14 in my case) but not as much as I was expecting. And running iTunes does have an impact, amounting to about a 5% reduction over the full benchmark. Perhaps not much, but not trivial either. And the saddest part, my home machine is a dog!

14 opening and loading the custom template
11 creating the floors levels and grids.
47 creating a group of walls and doors
109 modifying the group by adding a curtain wall
33 creating the exterior curtain wall
13 creating the sections
17 changing the curtain wall panel type
15 creating a perspective view
5 changing the curtain wall panel pleat
47 changing the levels height
125 update group to maintain level to level height
91 render a 3d view
279 export different views
9 save the project
815 Total

That puts me at 5% slower than some folks running a VM on a MacBook, and a whopping 80% slower than the high end MacPro in BootCamp! And that was my fastest run, no other apps open, second launch, etc.

AMD Athlon 64X2 4200+, 2G RAM, 7200rpm sATA HD, ATI FireGL v3300, WinXP 32, OpenGL On


Gordon

[Wes Macaulay]

11 opening and loading the custom template
8 creating the floors levels and grids.
37 creating a group of walls and doors
68 modifying the group by adding a curtain wall
30 creating the exterior curtain wall
10 creating the sections
13 changing the curtain wall panel type
12 creating a perspective view
4 changing the curtain wall panel pleat
35 changing the levels height
82 update group to maintain level to level height
50 render a 3d view
243 export different views
8 save the project
611 Total

WinXP Pro SP2
Q6600 Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz, Intel DG33BU
2Gb RAM 667 Mhz

To check your own CPU and memory specs, download the attached zipfile.

[Wes Macaulay]

14 opening and loading the custom template
11 creating the floors levels and grids.
48 creating a group of walls and doors
90 modifying the group by adding a curtain wall
56 creating the exterior curtain wall
13 creating the sections
19 changing the curtain wall panel type
18 creating a perspective view
6 changing the curtain wall panel pleat
47 changing the levels height
110 update group to maintain level to level height
91 render a 3d view
347 export different views
11 save the project

881 Total

Dell Inspiron 6400/E1505
WinXP Pro SP2
T2500 2.0 Ghz Core Duo CPU
2Gb of 533Mhz RAM

Once SP3 comes out we ought to run these benchmarks again! My first score was 907, and after turning off some services I don't need, dropped the score to 881.

[mruehr]

My Work Comp
I want more power
Anybody with a QX9770 or Xenon out there

9 opening and loading the custom template
7 creating the floors levels and grids.
41 creating a group of walls and doors
79 modifying the group by adding a curtain wall
27 creating the exterior curtain wall
10 creating the sections
15 changing the curtain wall panel type
12 creating a perspective view
5 changing the curtain wall panel pleat
40 changing the levels height
95 update group to maintain level to level height
85 render a 3d view
254 export different views
6 save the project

685 Total

Win Xp SP2
Core 2 duo 6400@2.13 GHz
2 GB Ram

[david.kingham]

Curiously I tried the test on 2 different machines with the same specs, the only difference is one is running XP with 4gb of ram and the other is running XP64 with 12gb of ram. Surprisingly the 32 bit machine won
I've had mixed results in other tests I've run, some tasks are much faster on 64 and some are slower....God please let Revit 09 be 64 bit!