Benchmark
Benchmark: the Render Fun test report
Render Fun 0.64.0 passed 52 real SketchUp tests on every installed SketchUp version: 1,162 checks in all. Each test starts SketchUp itself, builds a model, renders it and measures the result.
Speed: before and after
Times measured on the same models before and after the latest stability and speed work (seconds, shorter is better).
Stability over a long session
With SketchUp open, an action every 1.5 seconds for 30 minutes: orbiting, weather, quality, fog, panorama, real-time mode, material changes, model edits, closing and reopening the window. In the previous version real-time mode left something behind each time it closed and the count kept growing; in this version it stays flat, with 0 context losses.
The previous version’s run stopped at minute 19 when the computer went to sleep.
By feature group
Results version by version
Rows are features, columns are SketchUp versions. Green: passed; numbers are passed / all checks in that test. Grey: not a feature of that version.
| Feature | SketchUp 2026 | SketchUp 2025 | SketchUp 2024 | SketchUp 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image quality | ||||
| Anti-aliasing | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 |
| Noise-free result | ✓ timing | ✓ timing | ✓ timing | ✓ timing |
| Colour management | ✓ 12/12 | ✓ 12/12 | ✓ 12/12 | ✓ 12/12 |
| Ambient occlusion and detail | ✓ 10/10 | ✓ 10/10 | ✓ 10/10 | ✓ 10/10 |
| AI denoiser | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 |
| AI in the preview | ✓ 2/2 | ✓ 2/2 | ✓ 2/2 | ✓ 2/2 |
| Real-time mode | ✓ 4/4 | ✓ 4/4 | ✓ 4/4 | ✓ 4/4 |
| Light | ||||
| Atmosphere and fog | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 |
| Faster interiors | ✓ 7/7 | ✓ 7/7 | ✓ 7/7 | ✓ 7/7 |
| HDRI environments | ✓ 8/8 | ✓ 8/8 | ✓ 7/7 | ✓ 7/7 |
| IES light profiles | ✓ 4/4 | ✓ 4/4 | ✓ 4/4 | ✓ 4/4 |
| Lamps | ✓ 8/8 | ✓ 8/8 | ✓ 8/8 | ✓ 8/8 |
| Light and shadow | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 |
| Light mixer | ✓ 2/2 | ✓ 2/2 | ✓ 2/2 | ✓ 2/2 |
| Materials | ||||
| Brushed metal | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 |
| Layered materials | ✓ 3/3 | ✓ 3/3 | ✓ 3/3 | ✓ 3/3 |
| Texture library | ✓ 9/9 | ✓ 9/9 | ✓ 9/9 | ✓ 9/9 |
| Materials known by name | ✓ 3/3 | ✓ 3/3 | ✓ 3/3 | ✓ 3/3 |
| Material names | ✓ 3/3 | ✓ 3/3 | ✓ 3/3 | ✓ 3/3 |
| Material editing | ✓ 2/2 | ✓ 2/2 | ✓ 2/2 | ✓ 2/2 |
| PBR textures | ✓ 4/4 | ✓ 4/4 | n/a | n/a |
| Automatic relief | ✓ 4/4 | ✓ 4/4 | ✓ 4/4 | ✓ 4/4 |
| Subsurface scattering | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 |
| Smart UV | ✓ 13/13 | ✓ 13/13 | ✓ 13/13 | ✓ 13/13 |
| Water | ✓ 7/7 | ✓ 7/7 | ✓ 7/7 | ✓ 7/7 |
| Camera | ||||
| Physical camera | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 |
| Framing and aspect | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 |
| 360° panorama | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 |
| Section planes | ✓ 7/7 | ✓ 7/7 | ✓ 7/7 | ✓ 7/7 |
| Outputs | ||||
| Animation and video | ✓ 3/3 | ✓ 3/3 | ✓ 3/3 | ✓ 3/3 |
| Render masks | ✓ 4/4 | ✓ 4/4 | ✓ 4/4 | ✓ 4/4 |
| Render buffer | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 |
| Saving renders | ✓ 3/3 | ✓ 3/3 | ✓ 3/3 | ✓ 3/3 |
| Region render | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 |
| Panorama tour | ✓ 8/8 | ✓ 8/8 | ✓ 8/8 | ✓ 8/8 |
| Plants | ||||
| Indoor plants | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 |
| Plant keep-out areas | ✓ 4/4 | ✓ 4/4 | ✓ 4/4 | ✓ 4/4 |
| Plants along a line | ✓ 7/7 | ✓ 7/7 | ✓ 7/7 | ✓ 7/7 |
| Plants | ✓ 13/13 | ✓ 13/13 | ✓ 13/13 | ✓ 13/13 |
| Interface | ||||
| Panel layout | ✓ 10/10 | ✓ 10/10 | ✓ 10/10 | ✓ 10/10 |
| Material library panel | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 |
| Picking materials | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 |
| Look per scene | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 | ✓ 6/6 |
| User interface | ✓ 10/10 | ✓ 10/10 | ✓ 10/10 | ✓ 10/10 |
| Stability | ||||
| End-to-end acceptance | ✓ timing | ✓ timing | ✓ timing | ✓ timing |
| Setting combinations | ✓ 8/8 | ✓ 8/8 | ✓ 8/8 | ✓ 8/8 |
| Safe start after a crash | ✓ 10/10 | ✓ 10/10 | ✓ 10/10 | ✓ 10/10 |
| Live updates | ✓ 10/10 | ✓ 10/10 | ✓ 10/10 | ✓ 10/10 |
| Speed measurement | ✓ timing | ✓ timing | ✓ timing | ✓ timing |
| Graphics card compatibility mode | ✓ 2/2 | ✓ 2/2 | ✓ 2/2 | ✓ 2/2 |
| Texture sizes | ✓ 2/2 | ✓ 2/2 | ✓ 2/2 | ✓ 2/2 |
| Awkward model | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 | ✓ 5/5 |
Measurements come from Render Fun’s own test round (a full round takes about 2 hours 20 minutes). On other graphics cards the times differ; integrated graphics have not been measured yet.