Good luck with that.
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I understand that this test is no foolproof measure of performance. Screen and window size have their effect, as, of course, the GPU. In the original thread, people with newer i7 processors and RTX cards were however getting results in the range of 40 fps so the new Macs still seem to have room for improvement.
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I thought, as I seen the M1 results with geekbench and cinebench (at Youtube), the M1 would be a lot faster - in SketchUp.
So slightly better than a cpu that came out in 2015?
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Looks like, both run with 4K-Resolution, the windows laptop has a native 4k-display, the m1 is running with thunderbolt connected 4k monitor.
Here’s mine on a 4th gen i7-4770 @ 3.40 GHz, 16 gb ddr3, 512 sata ssd and GTX 650 Ti running SU Pro 2021…
And here it is in SU Pro 2020…
This is on my home PC btw.
SU2021.0 on my laptop (OriginPC EON17X (2017) laptop: Win10Pro, i7 7700K @ 4.2 GHz, 64GB RAM, GTX1080, OS & apps on 1TB m.2 PCIE, data on 2 TB SATA SSD.).
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SketchUp Pro 2021, my home PC (I7-9700 KF, 16GB RAM, RTX2070), fullscreen 4K
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That’s an impressive score on a 7 series i7, a cpu that came out in 2017. That makes a very affordable workstation.
Well, that was cherry-picked, worst score was 39-odd frames per second. 
I’m also running a process manager (Process Lasso) and have configured SketchUp on it.
But yes, I think it has been well established that having the latest and greatest isn’t always what it is made out to be (especially when it comes to SketchUp and LayOut), although it does offer some sense of future proofing.
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So you tweaked your PC to do a task better, I see no issue with that.
LOL, I turned the edges off and got this… was even playing a video on You tube at the same time
Edit: You can see I typed it in wrong the 1st time 
Edit 2: More tweaks and now getting 58.1858 f/s
Dell Precision 3630 i7-8700 3.2GHz 16GB Ram 1080gx
I jumped from 31 fps to 56 fps just by turning Profiles from 2 to 1. Can you see if this makes as big a difference on the M1 Mac?
It will do, Profiles are very demanding.
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Seems to be so.
Of course, in terms of the test, fiddling with style settings is “cheating” - results are no more comparable.
I would guess that turning off edges and profiles will especially affect the CPU load. Turning off shadows is a GPU setting, and its impact is minimal in this case.
Why I asked tengel to make that one change to see if his M1 also shows the increase in fps. That way it is fair comparison.
Profiles set to 1: 72 frames in 1.5481 sec - avg. frame = 0.0212 sec - 47.1545 frames/sec on M1.
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