So I'm building these new workstations for my office to combat the ever-increasing modeling pig. I like to do it myself so I know exactly what to expect and exactly how they'll perform and to control costs down to the penny. It came time to run benchmarks... now mind you, any of these numbers will look damn fast and I'm very excited about that. That's the idea behind new hardware. But what I'd like you to notice is the difference between the versions... Hmmm.... it confirms my benchmark postings of the past. Solidworks slows down 5-10% with every new release. Now apparently with every SP also :) Since 2003 SP2.0 seems to come and go maybe this is shooting fish in barrel; so be it, I didn't post it, they did :)
Workstation Hardware: Athlon64 3200+ running on MSI K8T Neo Motherboards
430W Antec True PS 1Gb DDR400 Ram, 2 sticks of 512Mb SATA Raid-0, 2 drives for 120Gb total Nvidia QuadroFX-1000 (got a really good deal on them)Software: All tests performed using
SW2003 SP3.0
122 Total Seconds 18 Graphics 64 Processor 40 I/OSW2004 SP0.0
128 Total Seconds 20 Graphics 62 Processor 46 I/OSW2004 SP2.0
135 Total Seconds 21 Graphics 63 Processor 51 I/O