CAD on Vista Performs Much Worse than on XP
This entry was posted on 1/31/2007 9:33 AM and is filed under uncategorized.
Various
commentators around the web are now
reporting on how various CAD programs run on Windows Vista. The common theme seems to be that performance takes a huge hit.
Tom's Hardware has published
benchmark results using SPECperf for various visualization and MCAD programs. Average performace was down 90% in Vista for MCAD applications (PTC's Pro/Engineer, UGS's NX and Teamcenter Visualization Mockup, Dassault Systemes CATIA and SolidWorks), and down 86.4% in visualization programs (Autodesk 3ds Max, LightScape, and Maya).
I expected there to be no benefit for CAD users to an immediate upgrade to Windows Vista, and I've said so here before. But it is rather shocking to see these reports of such terrible degradation of performance.
I will be attending press events sponsored by SolidWorks and Autodesk in the next two weeks. I am sure CAD performance in Windows Vista will be a hot topic at each event.
--RSN
