I have recently noticed that PC YouTubers really like to running 3D benchmarks… why should Cinema4D have all the fun and free advertising (they are like 5% of the community we are)…
If we had a Rhino benchmark that could test both rendering in CPU and GPU and real-world FPS performance as well as some fancy grasshopper form creation your audience could grow as young gamers eventually do. It seems such a shame not to be on those great big lists in workstation reviews and laptop shootouts.
The forum could also report our benchmark scores so that members could compete and learn how to optimize their systems (“dynamic streaming” NVIDIA hack, anyone?).
It would also highlight the crazy improvements you have made the graphics kernel in practically every release since 4 so that people could run benchmarks and realize that upgrading would help with productivity rather pure feature creep.
It would be a great marketing tool to raise the amount of people who are aware of this great software by orders of magnitude.
I think a simple Test, loading an included Scene and rotating it while measuring the FPS in a fixed size floating window in different Rendering modes would be very easy to script in Rhino with already built in functions. A MVP-version of this feature is like 1 day of work or less for a McNeel software engineer.
For us users it would be great to be able to benchmark our systems and solve the problem of finding out which hardware tu buy. It was impossible for me to find any RH8 comparisions between Windows (nvidia) and MacOS (Apple silicon GPU). With the Benchmarktool, the users could just compile a Database here in the forum.
Besides a Benchmarkingtool that could be bundled with the 1month Rhino Test version too, the Business opportunity does not end there. I think a cut down version with just basic modeling tools would be a great marketing tool to interest users of 3dprinters for Rhinoceros. There is a large 3d printing community and so far there is no CAD or surface modeler that fits their needs and dominates the scene. Rhino easily has the tools and simplicity to become that. It could be free for limited features or even be sold as a lower priced version along the professional rhino version.