I an using Solidworks. They have a benchmark tool that take about 10 – 30 minutes to run where you can compare your machine to others. My Solidworks was lagging. Solidworks needs a really fast single core to run fast as most of what it does cannot be multithreaded.
I looked up benchmarks on the Solidworks benchmark site and say people using i9-10900K to get CPU speeds of 5 – 7 seconds. My i7-3770 was getting a CPU rating of 49 second.
I purchased:
- Intel Core i9-10900K Desktop Processor 10 Cores up to 5.3 GHz Unlocked LGA1200 (Intel 400 Series Chipset) 125W
- MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Plus Gaming Motherboard (ATX, 10th Gen Intel Core, LGA 1200 Socket, DDR4, CF, Dual M.2 Slots, USB 3.2 Gen 2, 2.5G LAN, DP/HDMI, Mystic Light RGB)
- G.SKILL Trident Z Neo Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Intel XMP 2.0 Desktop Memory Model
I reused my Seagate SSD 1Tb drive.
Now with the Solidworks benchmark I am only getting CPU speeds of 24 sec. While that is twice the speed of my i7 it is still disappointing.
I made sure the ram was set to the right throughput. I also overclocked my CPU to 5Ghz but no real significant difference on benchmark speed.
The benchmark speeds are submitted using the benchmark tool so one would have to go to a bit of work to falsify them. I really don’t see a reason to as there is no identifying information in them to brag with.
Here is my CPU-Z CPU info. The Core speed varies from lower numbers all the way to 5000Mhz.
My RAM looks like this:
Any ideas why my CPU benchmark is so far off/underperforming?
