{"id":44907,"date":"2020-08-28T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=44907"},"modified":"2021-08-23T11:52:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T15:52:26","slug":"nerding-out-with-gpus-visualize-and-youtubes-linus-tech-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2020\/08\/nerding-out-with-gpus-visualize-and-youtubes-linus-tech-tips.html","title":{"rendered":"Nerding Out With GPUs, Visualize, and YouTube&#8217;s Linus Tech Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s summer and here in Pennsylvania, we\u2019ve had some blazing hot days. And, in some of their recent videos, Linus Tech Tips has showcased blazing fast renderings while testing powerful GPUs using SOLIDWORKS Visualize.<\/p>\n<p>No, I didn\u2019t just write this article for the purpose of writing out that intro. But if I had, would you really blame me?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/solidworks-visualize-linus-tech-tips-2.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our friends at Linus Tech Tips are back using SOLIDWORKS products to explore a topic I can assure you that SOLIDWORKS users like myself love to geek out over. Namely: GPUs! Last time we checked in with them on the SOLIDWORKS Blog, we talked about how Linus and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2019\/09\/catching-up-with-alex-clark-from-linus-tech-tips.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SOLIDWORKS Champion Alex Clark<\/a> were busy <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2020\/03\/water-cooling-an-8k-camera-with-linus-tech-tips.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">using SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation to perform transient analyses on cooling mods to an 8K camera<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This time, they\u2019re using SOLIDWORKS Visualize \u2013 their go-to in this area \u2013 to test, at a side-by-side level, the relative power of several GPU configurations on different engineering laptops.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This $10,000 laptop ISN&#039;T overpriced...\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-TWj-biXpLo?start=228&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here\u2019s the video, started at the point where SOLIDWORKS Visualize is introduced prior to Alex performing a basic \u2018race to rendering\u2019 test, with three separate machines seated next to one another hosting three different NVIDIA GPUs.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve used SOLIDWORKS Visualize for its beautiful, lifelike raytracing rendering capabilities in the past, you know that there are many, many factors that can influence the speed at which an image (or an animation) renders for us. Factors may include: output image size, DPI, number of passes, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, another factor is the source media. In other words: what are you rendering?!<\/p>\n<p>In the interest of performing a more uniform test, Alex equalized the source project and the settings within Visualize across the board. The source project in this case was a nifty &#8217;69 Camaro, which is probably a fileset you\u2019re used to if you\u2019ve ever opened Visualize. It\u2019s right on the home screen!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/solidworks-visualize-1969-camaro.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Here, you can see me using SOLIDWORKS Visualize Connected (incl. in the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/lp\/3dexperience-solidworks-offers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Offers<\/a>), connected to the cloud so that anyone in your company can store and access 3D data for renderings via the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. And hey, there\u2019s that \u201969 Camaro!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Spoiler alert if you haven&#8217;t watched the video embedded above yet: the fastest time to render was <em>under 2 minutes<\/em>! And with it doing 1000 passes for an image sized 2560&#215;1440, that\u2019s a pretty high fidelity output for a lifelike looking image that you\u2019re good to go with for your next pitch deck or product catalog in not even a couple of minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Think about how many things you can do in under 2 minutes. In terms of productivity, getting an amazing look at your products has to rank very high on this imaginary list.<\/p>\n<p>Funny enough, this isn\u2019t the first time Linus Tech Tips has used SOLIDWORKS products to test select GPUs. In fact, earlier this summer, the team leveraged this intensely awesome Millennium Falcon replica model (by Ryan Cole of GoEngineer!) for testing purposes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Wake-Up Call for Microsoft - Surface Book 3\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dc766aW5OZo?start=384&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While these videos are hugely entertaining, I also want to note that there are many ways to ensure you\u2019re working on a technically supported workstation configuration when it comes to SOLIDWORKS Visualize. One of the best ways is to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/support\/hardware-certification\">check out this site<\/a>, which contains recommended drivers for many popular cards from several manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>Stay cool, and stay rendering!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer&#8217;s hot, and so are these renderings. Sit back, relax, and take in some casual SOLIDWORKS Visualize rendering comparisons done by SOLIDWORKS Champion Alex Clark of Linus Tech Tips (>11M Subscribers).<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2020\/08\/nerding-out-with-gpus-visualize-and-youtubes-linus-tech-tips.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":44905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26,826,14,2790,163,18,2120],"tags":[122,19,3318,2121,3319],"class_list":["post-44907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-customer-stories","category-dassault-systmes","category-design","category-extended-reality","category-graphic-cards","category-solidworks","category-solidworks-visualize","tag-rendering","tag-solidworks-2","tag-solidworks-champions-program","tag-solidworks-visualize","tag-visualize-connected"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47388,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44907\/revisions\/47388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}