Single processor speed seems to be more important than how many you have..?? I have an i9-10900K @ 3.7GHz (not overclocked). I still have issues with the demon when generating scans. has to be the demon not the pc..
hmm, where exactly can you use multiple cores in pcDMIS?
With lists of points or scans, this shouldn't make much of a difference.
As far as I know, no complex sorting algorithms are used and no complex matrices are solved.
It's not like the program calculates weather or molecule dynamics
PC-DMIS is not utilizing multicore, nor is Solidworks. Both of which I have to use. The reason I ask is because of the many issues with generating high density scans that I have run in to over the years.
Programs with lots of points take forever to load , save, generate reports etc. graphics are the same issue. I have an NVIDIA QAUDRO RTX 4000 8GB card and when the demon runs slow, I check the resource monitor and the GPU is not being tasked...Just have never understood why a software like the demon underutilizes the PC.
I'm using an i7-9700k. IT must have put a nice cooler in the system on it because it runs near 5Ghz all the time. Sadly, it still isn't enough to handle PCDMIS when working on large programs. As
Benedictj1 says, the software does not take advantage of mulitiple cores. PC-DMIS can be completely bogged down processing something like a feature name change and my system will have something like 15% utilization (The processor can handle 8 threads at a time). All the cores will are used, but I'm guessing only one at a time in rapid succession.
Just out of curiosity, I used the task manager to force PCDMIS to run on just one core while editing a large measuring routine. It seemed no different than when all the cores were sharing the load.
If I were to spec out a new system, I would focus on single core performance. It might also help to have a lot of L2 and L3 cache too. I don't know if that would help, but sometimes I wonder if it would. Some of those new Core i9's have some crazy good single core benchmarks.
My L1 = 640KB, l2 = 2.5MB AND L3 = 20MB. That's really really good and I still have issues. I think my processor is overclocked at around4.9 GHz, that really good as well.