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SolidWorks Visualize Benchmark on CAD Workstations

By John PowerApplications Engineer at CADspace

email: johnp@cadspace.com.au

Blog Presentation

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Comparison Model and Specs

Model HP EliteBook 8570W DELL M3800 Precision MSI WS72-6QJ Custom Gaming Machine

Graphics Card NVidia Quadro K1000M NVIDIA Quadro K1100M NVIDIA Quadro M2000M 2 X NVIDIA GTX 960 Non-SLI

*NVIDIA CUDA Cores

192 384 640 2048

RAM 16 GB DDR3 16 GB DDR3 16 GB DDR4 16 GB DDR3

CPU Intel® Core™ i7-3820QM @ 2.70 GHz

Intel® Core™ i7-4712HQ @ 2.30 GHz

Intel® Xeon® E3-1505M @ 2.80 GHz Intel® Core™ i7-4790 @ 3.60 GHz

Operation System Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit

Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit

Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-bit

Hard Drive 240 GB SSD SANDISK 512 GB SSD SAMSUNG 256 GB SSD HGST 100 GB SSD SANDISK

Four workstations have been compared with the same projects in SOLIDWORKS Visualize

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Comparison AreaComparison between four models in:

Real Time Rendering

CPU Rendering

GPU Rendering

Hybrid Rendering (CPU + GPU)

Render benchmark settings: 3840x2160/4K (UHD) Res, 2000 Render Passes, Accurate Selection, 300 DPI

2000 Passes was selected due to diminishing returns of Render Quality vs. Time

Emphasis on advanced visualization of glass, reflective metals, HDR’s, etc.

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Comparison: Real Time Render Results

Model HP EliteBook 8570W

DELL PrecisionM3800

MSI WS72-6QJ Custom Gaming Machine

1969 Camaro 1.35 1.94 4.9 14

Diamond Rings 1.66 2.3 6.2 17

Phone 3.8 5.33 12 37.5

Bay HDR 3.9 5.61 13.3 44

Settings: • Default Camera Angle• 960x540 Preview Resolution• Hybrid & Accurate Selection• Units: Passes Per Second

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Comparison: CPU Only

Model HP EliteBook 8570W

DELL Precision M3800 MSI WS72-6QJ

Custom Gaming Machine

1969 Camaro 9 hrs 19 mins 9 hrs 37 mins 6hrs 9 mins 5 hrs 38 mins

Diamond Rings - - 4 hrs 51 mins 5 hrs 22 mins

Phone - - 2 hrs 15 mins 2 hrs 27 mins

Bay HDR - - 2 hrs 56 mins 3 hrs 9 mins

Settings:• 3840x2160 Resolution• 2000 Render Passes• CPU Rendering

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Comparison: GPU Only

Model HP EliteBook 8570W

DELL Precision M3800 MSI WS72-6QJ Custom Gaming Machine

1969 Camaro 6 hrs 3 mins 4 hrs 2 mins 1 hr 38 mins 33 mins

Diamond Rings 4 hrs 58 mins 3 hrs 17 mins 1 hr 17 mins 26 mins

Phone 3 hrs 6 mins 1 hr 58 mins 36 mins 13 mins

Bay HDR 2 hrs 19 mins 1 hr 39 mins 29 mins 11 mins

Settings:• 3840x2160 Resolution• 2000 Render Passes• GPU Rendering

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Comparison: Hybrid (GPU+CPU)

Model HP EliteBook 8570W

DELL PrecisionM3800

MSI WS72-6QJ Custom Gaming Machine

1969 Camaro 4 hrs 34 mins 3 hrs 23 mins 1 hrs 19 mins 31 mins

Diamond Rings 3 hrs 55 mins 2 hr 54 mins 1 hr 3 mins 24 mins

Phone 1 hrs 25 mins 1 hr 18 mins 30 mins 13 mins

Bay HDR 1 hr 12 mins 1 hr 7 mins 24 mins 11 mins

Settings:• 3840x2160 Resolution• 2000 Render Passes• CPU + GPU Rendering

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Summary

The MSI WS72-6QJ performed well in our benchmark comparison, however as the results show, the more CUDA cores you have the better performance you will get.

HP EliteBook 8570W

DELL Precision M3800

MSI WS72-6QJ

Custom Gaming Machine

0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400

HybridGPU

1969 Camaro 4K Render Times in min (Lower is better)

*NVIDIA CUDA Cores(Higher is Better) 192 384 640 2048

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1969 Camaro 3840x2160 @ 2000 Render Passes

10Diamond Rings 3840x2160 @ 2000 Render Passes

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Phone 2880x2160 @ 2000 Render Passes

12Bay HDR 3840x2160 @ 2000 Render Passes