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May 13, 2014
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OCUS Benchmark - Video Cards (Quadro, Firepro)

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We are evaluating new workstations and video cards to run Creo Parametric 2.0 M100. I had some unexpected results and would appreciate some comments.

We use Dell workstations. We evaluated two T3610 workstations running Windows 7 64 bit:

1. Xeon E5-1650v2 6 core 3.5 GHz 12MB cache 64 GB (machine #1)

2. Xeon E5-1620v2 4 core, 3.7 GHz 10 MB cache 64 GB (machine #2).

Although the machines were connected to the network (for licenses), all software and data files were local on the C: drive. The machine were procured a few months ago.

The video cards:

1. Nvidia Quadro K2000 (vc #1)

2. AMD Firepro W5000 (vc #2)

3. Nvidia Quadro K4000 (vc #3)

Running the OCUS benchmark (64 bit) (Thanks, Olaf) using the latest, not PTC certified, drivers yielded the following results (times in seconds):
Machine #1: VC #1 VC #2 VC #3
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EricVidra1-Visitor
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June 5, 2014
Bob,

Thanks for the numbers. Yes we are also including some typical Engineer design tasks in our review. It was in these test we found surprisingly good numbers for the T1700 against higher spec machines, and turned to the OCUS for more understanding. I will share summary when complete.

Eric Vidra

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EricVidra1-Visitor
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June 5, 2014
Appears to be build related issue with M110. Here are latest numbers with M070.

T1700 very strong showing for a Xeon with no overclocking. Still wonder if we could get bit more performance with E5-1620 v2 3.7GHz for nearly same price in a T3610? But Bob Monat Machine #2 VC#3 did fair better with this CPU - on paper higher clock and much larger memory capacity.

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ocorten-212-Amethyst
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June 6, 2014
Hi all,

I see exactly the same results on my Dell T1700 with Creo Parametric 2.0.
M110 shows about 10 times slower PDF and DXF creation times compared to M100 (OCUS Benchmark v6 64bit - tests 36 and 37)
http://www.proesite.com/cgi-bin/ocusb6.cgi?v=All&srt=total&cmp=0&sub=1&srch=benchmark+t1700&sfrm=0&lid=20&64bit=1


(and I also see it on my Dell M6500 with the normal benchmark)


The problem goes away when using the config setting: windows_browser_type set to mozilla_based_browser.
The results for DXF and PDF creation are then back to normal (practically the same as M100).
This option was not included in the OCUS Benchmark config.pro. The default for this option is ie_in_process for M100 as well as M110.
You can include it in the config.pro manually, but I have also updated the benchmark config.pro (download version 6.0.1)
Note: I'm running Creo Parametric unlinked to Windchill ...

I have created a medium severity case on PTC.com (#12026663).


Kind regards,

Olaf Corten




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From: Eric Vidra <->
To: "Monat, Robert A" <->, Olaf Corten <->
Cc: "-" <->
Date: 05-06-2014 22:02
Subject: [proesys] - RE: OCUS Benchmark - Video Cards (Quadro, Firepro)



Appears to be build related issue with M110. Here are latest numbers with M070.

T1700 very strong showing for a Xeon with no overclocking. Still wonder if we could get bit more performance with E5-1620 v2 3.7GHz for nearly same price in a T3610? But Bob Monat Machine #2 VC#3 did fair better with this CPU - on paper higher clock and much larger memory capacity.

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Xeon-E5-1620-v2-vs-Intel-Xeon-E3-1270-v3



Thanks to all for all the helpful replies!
Eric



Dell Workstations Win7 64-bit, all with same SSD drive configurations (3) 840 EVO.
CREO 2.0 M070

T5610 #1
CPU: Dual Xeon 8 core E5-2687W v2 3.40 GHz Max Turbo 4.0
RAM: 64 GB
VIDEO: K5000 (4GB)

Total: 1769
CPU: 1345
Graphics: 402
Disk: 384

T5610 #2
CPU: Single Xeon 4 core E5-2637 v2 3.50 GHz Max Turbo 3.8
RAM: 32 GB
VIDEO: K5000 (4GB)

Total: 1725
CPU: 1228
Graphics: 478
Disk: 264

T1700 #3
CPU: Single Xeon 4 core E3-1270 v3 3.50 GHz Max Turbo 3.9
RAM: 16 GB
VIDEO: K4000 (3GB)

Total: 1107
CPU: 789
Graphics: 305
Disk: 168




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