for re-solidwork.
I hook up with this discussion to ask you a few questions since you have a long experience with solidworks (please excuse me if I'm a bit ot)
observing the benchmarks of solidworks in the share your score section I noticed that many users at equal configuration have halved times or more than halved (as average observed value) with different versions of soloworks in particular seems that the 2013 version is much faster than 2012.
for example the t3600 cpu e5-1620 3.60ghz, 8gb ram, picture 2000, ssd 256
with sw2013 overall=76.6 cpu= 33.5 - realview=31.1 - graphics=17.2 - i/o=25.9 - render=16.2
while the t3600 cpu e5-1620 3.60ghz, 8gb ram, picture 2000, ssd 256
with sw2012 overall=247.3 cpu= 90.8 - realview=18.4 - graphics=45.1 - i/o=111.3 - render=56.2
there was really an epochal leap in the exploitation of the hardware by sw2013 or the results are not reliable.
I am aware that benches are indicative and not absolute but globally the times of sw2013 are much lower than sw2012 at the same hardware of the same brand and model.
I wanted to better understand how to interpret the results
a thing that I do not like about this bench and that false values are reported, clearly too low and that are detached from the average of standard values.
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