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Pro/E Benchmark Rating
When Compaq submitted three Windows NT systems for Bench99 testing with Pro/ENGINEER, the
following results were shown (as printed in
ProE: The Magazine
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The XP1000 (667Mhz) with a Compaq PowerStorm 350 graphics card was the fastest Windows
NT workstation and Fastest CPU
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The AP200 with an Oxygen GVX1 graphics card has the best price/performance and best value
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Because of improvements in design due to constant changes in technology, workstation
performance continues to dramatically improve. Here’s an example of performance
improvements year over year using the exact same Bench99 test (lower is better):
Compaq Workstation Performance Over Time
Running Your Own Benchmark
There is no better benchmark to compare performance than one that you create and run yourself
using your own assemblies/parts and the Pro/E features you use most often.
1.
When running a benchmark comparison, make sure you have enough memory installed to
prevent paging to disk. Once a benchmark pages to disk, it becomes disk i/o bound, and will
not give a true measure of overall system performance. Paging to disk occurs when the memory
required to run the benchmark is greater than the amount of physical memory available.
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For a quick estimate of how much memory a benchmark requires, run the benchmark right after
a reboot. Go into the Windows NT Task Manager select the Performance tab, and look at the
Peak Commit Charge (K) number. This is the maximum amount of memory used. This number
should be smaller than the physical RAM you have on the workstation. If not, you are paging
to disk and not getting an accurate picture of the overall workstation performance. (If you find
that peak memory used is greater than the amount of RAM available a majority of the time, then
you will want to consider increasing the amount of memory on the workstation.)
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