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SolidWorks Visualize Benchmark on CAD
Workstations
By John Power
Applications 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 Area
Comparison 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 Precision
M3800
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 Precision
M3800
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.
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400
HP EliteBook 8570W
DELL Precision M3800
MSI WS72-6QJ
Custom Gaming Machine
Hybrid
GPU
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

10. 10Diamond Rings 3840x2160 @ 2000 Render Passes

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12. 12Bay HDR 3840x2160 @ 2000 Render Passes