The SPEC Graphics Performance Characterization Group (SPECgpc) has released a Linux Edition of its SPECviewperf 2020 v3.0 performance benchmark. v3.0 was released on December 9, 2021. Major updates in the SPECviewperf v3.0 benchmark include: The Solidworks-07 viewset has been updated to use the same viewport rendering modes in both 4K and 2K resolutions. Results are not comparable with … Read more
The SPEC Graphics Performance Characterization Group (SPECgpc) has released an update to its SPECviewperf benchmark. The SPECviewperf 2020 V2.0 benchmark features updated Solidworks-06 viewset. The viewsets can be downloaded individually. V2.0 supports all the features of SPECviewperf benchmark V1.0 released in last October and adds on. The SPECviewperf 2020 benchmark license is available for free to all except … Read more
By Bob Cramblitt The SPEC Graphics Performance Characterization Group (SPECgpc) has released an all-new version of its SPECviewperf benchmark that features updated viewsets, new models, support for both 2K and 4K display resolutions, and improved set-up and results management. This article outlines the major components of the new benchmark. New features SPECviewperf software measures the … Read more
By Bob Cramblitt More than 25 years ago, the SPEC Graphics and Workstation Performance Group (SPEC/GWPG) developed the Viewperf benchmark and published its first reported results. Viewperf (now SPECviewperf) was unique among synthetic benchmarks for its use of real-world datasets (called viewsets), tests and weighting developed in cooperation with independent software vendors (ISVs). The original … Read more
By Bob Cramblitt An in-depth look at SPEC’s latest. The SPEC Graphics Performance Characterization (SPECgpc) subcommittee recently released SPECviewperf 13, a major revision of its software for measuring the graphics performance of workstations running professional applications. SPECviewperf 13 includes new volume visualization viewsets for energy (oil and gas) and medical applications, a redesigned GUI, improved scoring … Read more
It’s that time again. By Bob Cramblitt Your CAD package or 3D animation software is running slower than you think it should when confronted with heavy graphics content. Response time is lagging, slowing productivity. It might be a trivial issue if it affected only one system, but when multiple highly paid designers, engineers, or animators … Read more
The popular benchmark measures 3D graphics performance of systems running OpenGL and DirectX. The new update to the SPECviewperf benchmark features a new Autodesk 3ds Max viewset, Microsoft Windows 10 support, along with GUI and reporting improvements. SPECviewperf software measures the 3D graphics performance of systems running under the OpenGL and Direct X application programming … Read more
Ability to add API support and customized tests are highlights of the new release. SPEC’s Graphics Performance Characterization group (SPECgpc) has released SPECviewperf 12, an all-new version of the worldwide standard for measuring graphics performance based on professional applications. SPECgpc members include AMD, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Intel, Lenovo, NEC, and Nvidia. SPECviewperf 12 measures the … Read more
The excessively high score against the RTX 4090 is due to a new driver. In the recent testing of the RTX 4090 by our colleague Mark Poppin of BabelTechReviews, we observed what we thought was an anomaly in one of the SPEC tests. In the SiSoft Sandra 2020 GPGPU test suite, AMD’s RX 6900 XT … Read more
The group continues its work in establishing, maintaining, and endorsing standardized benchmarks; unveils SPECapc for Maya 2023 benchmark. The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) Graphics and Workstation Performance Group (GWPG) was formed in 1986 under the National Computer Graphics Association (NCGA). GWPG joined SPEC in 1996, and today is one of five groups developing benchmarks … Read more
