KangaMark - PC performance Kangaroo benchmarking

Following a few recent discussions:

building-a-computer-around-kangaroo-physics-grasshopper

and inspired by the example of Holomark for Rhino, this is a first go at a very simple tool to get an idea of how fast different computers are at performing the sort of calculations used in Kangaroo, with the aim of informing those buying or upgrading their machines.

If you could take a couple of minutes to download and run this definition (after closing other running applications), then post here the result and your PC specs, hopefully we can start building a basic picture of what effect different hardware really has on the speed Kangaroo runs.

Most of the information can be found in the System page of Control Panel.

RAM speed can be checked in your BIOS, or with a tool like CPU-Z (note that the reported frequency from this should be doubled to get the actual RAM speed rating - eg if the frequency is 800MHz you should write DDR3-1600. It's confusing I know - see some discussion of this here), or by searching online for the specs of your PC model number.

This definition is purely testing the speed of the internal physics calculation, not display, so graphics-cards are irrelevant.

For now this is just to get a single general measure of overall Kangaroo speed, but it might also be interesting later to run a variety of tests to see how the speed varies with the size and complexity of simulation.

Of course a way of benchmarking general Grasshopper performance would be very nice to have as well, but would involve a lot more variables, and I'd be interested if anyone has ideas about how that could work.

Note - I posted a couple of versions of this earlier with various errors that were causing incorrect results. If you downloaded the earlier KangaMark01.gh or KangaMark02.gh file, please disregard that and any results from it and use the one posted here below:

Attachments:

KangaMark03.gh, 51 KB

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on July 14, 2015 at 8:46am

To start things off:

KangaMark Score: 71
PC model: Lenovo G570 (laptop)
Operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium
Processor model and speed: Intel core i5-2410M @ 2.30 GHz
Amount and speed of RAM: 6 GB DDR3-1333

Permalink Reply by Pieter Segeren on July 14, 2015 at 9:04am

               KangaMark Score: 133
                       PC model: Custom
           Operating system: Windows 7 Professional
Processor model and speed: Intel Core i5-4670 @ 3.40GHz
Amount and speed of RAM: 16.0 GB @ 1600 Mhz (DDR3)

Do we want a high or a low score b.t.w.?

Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on July 14, 2015 at 9:13am

Higher score means faster

Permalink Reply by Amir Soltani on July 14, 2015 at 10:22am

KangaMark Score: 88
PC model: Dell Alienware Area51 Desktop
Operating system: Windows 8.1
Processor model and speed: Intel Core i7 960 @ 3.20GHz
Amount and speed of RAM: 12GB DD3 1333Mhz

Permalink Reply by Ryan Whitby on July 14, 2015 at 10:32am

KangaMark Score: 125
PC model: Lenovo ThinkStation S30
Operating system: Windows 8.1 Pro
Processor model and speed: Intel Xeon E5 1620 v2 @ 3.70 GHz
Amount and speed of RAM: 8 gB DDR3-1800

Permalink Reply by Marios Tsiliakos on July 14, 2015 at 10:57am

KangaMark Score: 127
PC model: Lenovo Thinkstation Custom (desktop)
Operating system: Windows 7 Home Pro
Processor model and speed: Intel Xeon CPU E5-1620 v3@3.50GHz
Amount and speed of RAM: 64 GB DDR3 -1333Mhz

It's better to close all the other applications when running the test.

Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on July 14, 2015 at 12:24pm

Thanks Marios - yes, I'll update the post to mention that.

Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on July 14, 2015 at 1:25pm

Is there any spatially reasonable laptop with Xeon processors ? ;)

BTW : TDP of my i7 4500u -15W, E5-1620 -120W. At least I'm environment friendly lol.

Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on July 14, 2015 at 1:21pm

KangaMark Score: 64
PC model: Asus V5-573G
Operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium
Processor model and speed: i7-4500 U @ 1.8 GHz (up to 3.0 GHz)
Amount and speed of RAM: DDR3 12 GB 1600 Mhz

If using laptop, connect it to the charger (got 40 on battery). Not sure if it applies to all CPUs, but with "U" the speed is really altering.

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on July 14, 2015 at 3:19pm

@Mateusz is this the replacement for the other faulty gpu one?

Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on July 14, 2015 at 3:51pm

It was actually display issue... fixed it with my bare hands, by bending it properly. Yes, bending.

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on July 14, 2015 at 1:48pm

KangaMark Score: 122
PC model: Custom PC
Operating system: Windows 7
Processor model and speed: i7 3820 @ 3.6gh
Amount and speed of RAM: 32GB DDR3 1600

i suspect some cpu strain degradation, after working 8 months in 4.1 overclock. did not expect that distance with I5 4670.