SOLIDWORKS Visualize Benchmarks

To aid in your graphics card purchasing decisions, we’ve assembled the following table of render performance across commonly used NVIDIA GPUs with SOLIDWORKS Visualize. This table illustrates the expected performance results you can achieve on the tested GPUs. In these tests, the only hardware variable was the GPU – all other computer hardware remained constant. Use this table to compare render performance and invest in your ideal GPU configuration.

GPU	HD 1000 Passes	HD 100 Passes w/ Denoiser	4K 100 Passes w/ Denoiser	HD Turntable 10sec w/ Denoiser @50 passes
RTX6000	1:22	0:09	0:34	10:41
RTX5000	1:47	0:13	0:46	13:46
RTX4000	2:11	0:15	0:56	16:00
GV100	1:15	0:09	0:32	10:19
GP100	1:43	0:12	0:44	13:54
P6000	2:29	0:17	1:04	17:54
P5000	3:45	0:30	1:36	25:29
P4000	4:06	0:27	1:49	28:25
M6000	3:21	0:22	1:30	25:05
M5000	4:53	0:33	2:16	37:53
M4000	7:20	0:49	3:28	55:05
2x RTX6000	0:40	0:05	0:18	6:24
2x RTX5000	0:55	0:06	0:25	8:05
2x RTX4000	1:05	0:08	0:32	9:10
2x GV100	0:44	0:05	0:18	6:48
2x P6000	1:14	0:09	0:32	10:04
2x P5000	1:52	0:14	0:50	14:14
2x P4000	2:03	0:15	0:54	15:08

If you would like to perform the same test on your system, click here to download the same Visualize project we used for the image benchmarks. The project is already set up to render – don’t change the camera, lighting or any other setting in order to achieve consistent results.

The following settings apply to each test case:

Image Format = JPEG
Output Mode = Render
Render Output Passes = None
Resolution Size = See Table
Resolution Pixels/In = 96.00
Renderer Selection = Accurate
Render Mode = Quality
Render Passes = See Table
Enable Denoiser = See Table
Send to Queue = Unchecked
Show Progress = Checked
Render Device = GPU

Turntable (using the 1969Camaro file that is included with your installation of Visualize)

Movie Format = MPEG-4
Create Movie = Checked
Angle Range = 0.00 – 360.00
Direction = Clockwise
Frames Per Second = 30.00
Duration = 10 Sec
Render Passes = 50

Note: Testing the same hardware with a newer version of Visualize and NVIDIA driver will result in faster performance, due to efficiency gains from latest IRAY version. All tests were performed using Visualize version 2019 SP2.