SPEC is offering GPU vendors and CAD professionals a new way to put their own work to the test with its Workload Development Kit for its SPECapc for Siemens NX 2024 benchmark. The WDK lets users run and measure their own GPU-specific workloads and proprietary graphics models beyond the standard test scenes.
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has released the SPECapc for Siemens NX 2024 Workload Development Kit (WDK), which integrates directly into the existing SPECapc for Siemens NX 2024 benchmark. The kit basically lets vendors and consumers run and measure their own GPU-specific workloads and proprietary graphics models within the existing benchmark framework.
Siemens NX combines CAD and CAM tools into processor-intensive software that designers and manufacturers use to build products faster. The base SPECapc benchmark runs graphics tests covering rotation, pan, zoom, and clipping for each model, and its viewport tests measure field-of-view handling and feature-regeneration operations. Professionals, students, artists, hardware developers, and vendors run these tests to see how different hardware configurations affect real application performance.
The WDK extends that framework to internal models and specialized workflows. Vendors and consumers can benchmark proprietary graphics models without exposing that intellectual property outside their own environment. Teams that previously relied only on published SPECapc scores now gain a sanctioned method to test the exact scenes, assemblies, and rendering paths their own products use in daily production work.
