It took them long enough. The last one put a huge load on the machine. I'll have to give this one try. It will be interesting to see what the results look like once they start getting posted. I hope there will be some good comparisons of 32 to 64 bit. Do they allow changing the settings to turn on dual processor support?
It is a smaller download because most of the files are created by the benchmark. It has recently gained support from the computer OEMs who have been posting their scores.
No matter which benchmark you use it is amazing to look at the changes over the years.
Here is the slowest score posted for the wildfire benchmark from Olaf
15003 seconds to complete with a SGI PTC-CertifiedConfiguration 540 2x Intel Pentium III Xeon processor 2x 500 COBALT GRAPHICS CHIPSET Wildfire
Here is the fastest score for a PTC certified system.
584 seconds complete with a Sun Microsystems PTC-CertifiedConfiguration Sun Ultra 40 (TM) Workstation Opteron 254 2800 nVidia Quadro FX 3450 Wildfire 2.0
That is 25x improvement! When you are doing cad you really can justify upgrading machines.
I thought I was pretty computer savvy, but I couldn't figure out how to get this to run. I downloaded it, extracted it to the default folder, and tried both .bat files in the utilities folder... Neither seemed to do anything... Their instructions seem to be lacking.
I looked in the results folder, and there seemed to be some information about my machine, but I don't think the program ran properly.
What am I not doing correctly?
You have to open up the batch file and edit the comand for pro/e if it is not the default.
The instructions in the readme do suck. The ones in the batch files are better.
I ran it last night and got a 1.73 with an Athalon 64 3500, 2 gigs of ram and a quadroFX 1100 but I have not idea if that is a good score until some results are posted somewhere.
I need to find the time to download the files.... My machine is a couple of years old (Dell M50 Laptop) so the results wouldn't be of much interest to prospective buyers.
I like Olaf's benchmarks as well. They seem to run smoother and don't make IT managers angry when you download them...
There aren't results up there since they have just released the benchmark. In time, some results should trickle in... At one of my summer jobs in college we had to do benchmarking for Pro/E magazine. It was good times, since all the big manufacturers were sending us their top-end machines to test, It was too bad that we had to send them back, but I still got to spend the summer using Pro/E on a machine that Dell had optimized just for it (lol, i still made it crash)...
