Does Revit run on dual processors ??

[reubencooke]

does revit run on dual processors ?? - and does it improve performance dramtically ???

[PeterJ]

It can take advatage of dual processors for rendering, but not for general processing.

If you look at the Revit Bench Mark thread you will see what impact dual processors have on rendering.

[jbalding48677]

At this point in time, no with the exception of rendering. Rendering time is reduced with dual processors.

[FK]

To be more precise, the operating system can do background chores on the second CPU while Revit is using the first. The performance increase won't be "dramatic", so it's not justified unless you are really maxing it out.

[mlgatzke]

I'm not sure about the inner workings of Revit. What I do know is that my machines rank #1 on the benchmark list - and they're Dell 450 Workstations with dual 3.2 Xeons and 2GB of RAM. They are BLAZING fast.

[jbalding48677]

I'm not sure about the inner workings of Revit. What I do know is that my machines rank #1 on the benchmark list - and they're Dell 450 Workstations with dual 3.2 Xeons and 2GB of RAM. They are BLAZING fast.

Could be because it was a rendering benchmark test ;)

[mlgatzke]

Jim, I have absolutely no doubt. However, that's the real time consumer in Revit (besides network throughput for worksets). Also, there are other things that a computer must so while you are working. Having dual processors allows the cycles for the computer to do what it has to without stealing those crucial cycles for Revit tasks.