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 |
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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.