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 nardo chai on July 15, 2015 at 7:27am

KangaMark Score: 113
PC model: Custom
Operating system: Windows 8 Professional
Processor model and speed: Intel Core i7-2600K @3.40GHz
Amount and speed of RAM: 8 GB DDR3 -1333Mhz

Permalink Reply by ntoniceddu on July 15, 2015 at 9:21am

KangaMark Score: 96
PC model: ASUS N550JV
Operating system: Windows 8.1 Pro
Processor model and speed: Intel core i7-4700HQ @ 2.40 GHz
Amount and speed of RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 1600 MHz

Permalink Reply by nikos tzar on July 15, 2015 at 11:02am

Here is a file to get all the benchmark results and sort them by score:

Just enter the number of pages this post has and see the results (as long as they are posted following the original format proposed by Daniel).

Thanks to Daniel Davis for Read webpage component!

Ps.I'll post my results later(no K2 on the machine I am now)!

Attachments:

KangaMarkReader.gh, 21 KB

Permalink Reply by Ivan Kiryakov on July 16, 2015 at 4:36am

KangaMark Score: 107
PC model: DELL PRECISION T1600
Operating system: Windows 7 Professional x 64
Processor model and speed: Intel Xeon E3 1245 @ 3.30GHz
Amount and speed of RAM: 8 GB DDR3 -1333Mhz

Permalink Reply by nikos tzar on July 17, 2015 at 1:03pm

KangaMark Score: 163
PC model: Custom
Operating system: Windows 7 Ultimate x 64
Processor model and speed: Intel Core i7 4790K @ 4.00GHz
Amount and speed of RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 2400Mhz

Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on July 30, 2015 at 9:02am

Finally back at home and got around to testing this on my desktop:

KangaMark Score: 180
PC model: Custom
Operating system: Windows 8.1
Processor model and speed: Intel Core i7-4790K @4.7GHz
Amount and speed of RAM: 32 GB DDR3 @ 2133Mhz

Thanks to all of you that posted results. It's been interesting to see - the strongest correlation does seem to be with processor clock speed, as expected, with the i7s doing better than Xeons. Only one result for AMD, so difficult to draw conclusions with any confidence, but that result was low considering relatively high stated clock-speed.

Permalink Reply by Mathias Gmachl on July 30, 2015 at 9:44am

It looks like the KangaMark follows typical Single Thread Performance tests like the PassMark fairly closely.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

The first 10 current KangaMark results as scored by PassMark are below. A few minor difference due to RAM or overclocking.

And it looks like you dont even have to spend that much...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Z97-PRO-ThermalTake-Contac21-OVERCLOCKED-Mo...

Daniel, is a KangaMark 190 twice as fast as a 95?

Permalink Reply by Will McElwain on July 31, 2015 at 9:41pm

KangaMark Score: 111
PC model: Dell Inspiron 17R SE (7720, Mid 2012) laptop
Operating system: Windows 8.1 x64
Processor model and speed: Intel Core i7-3630QM @2.4 GHz, Quad-Core
Amount and speed of RAM: 8GB (2X4GB) @1600MHz, DDR3

Permalink Reply by machinehistories on September 28, 2015 at 7:45pm

KangaMark Score: 182
PC model: @xi
Operating system: Windows 10
Processor model and speed: Intel i7-6700k @ 4.80GHz
Amount and speed of RAM: 32 GB DDR4 @2800Mhz

Permalink Reply by Jon on January 18, 2016 at 7:58am

KangaMark Score: 112
PC model: Dell Precision T3610
Operating system: Windows 7 Professional
Processor model and speed: Intel® Xeon® processor E5-1620 v2 @ 3.7GHz
Amount and speed of RAM: 16 GB DDR3 -1600MHz

Permalink Reply by Andrei on April 22, 2016 at 5:50pm

KangaMark Score: 172
PC model: M/B Asus Maximus VIII Hero
Operating system: Windows 10
Processor model and speed: Intel core i7-6700K @ 4.50 GHz
Amount and speed of RAM: 64 GB DDR4 @ 2,667 MHz

Permalink Reply by Andrei on April 23, 2016 at 4:14pm

KangaMark Score: 176
PC model: M/B Asus Maximus VIII Hero
Operating system: Windows 10
Processor model and speed: Intel core i7-6700K @ 4.60 GHz
Amount and speed of RAM: 64 GB DDR4 @ 2,667 MHz