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SPECviewperf 12.1.1
SPECviewperf 12.1.1, released by SPEC's Graphics Performance Characterization group (SPECgpc) on August 24, 2016, is the latest version of the worldwide standard for measuring graphics performance based on professional applications. SPECgpc members at the time of release include AMD, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Intel, Lenovo, NEC and NVIDIA.
SPECviewperf 12.1.1 measures the 3D graphics performance of systems running under the OpenGL and Direct X application programming interfaces. The benchmark’s test files, called viewsets, represent graphics content and behaviour from actual applications.
SPECviewperf 12.1.1 has been superseded by version 13, but we ran it anyway for backwards compatibility with earlier workstation notebook tests. Unsurprisingly, the PNY Prevail Pro beats the MSI WS63 7RK in every test, as the latter sports the lesser mobile Quadro P3000.
The MSI WT73VR 7RM, with its mobile Quadro P5000, beats the PNY notebook, which sits in between the two MSI machines as you would expect. However, the Workstation Specialists WS-X143S's desktop Quadro P4000 is way ahead in virtually every test, except the snx-02 viewset, which uses code based on Siemens NX product design software.
Nevertheless, none of the applications represented in this test cause the PNY system problems. Whether doing 3D animation, engineering CAD, product design, scientific visualisation or engineering, the mobile Quadro P4000 should be more than capable of a smooth workflow.
SPECviewperf 13
The SPECviewperf 13 benchmark is the worldwide standard for measuring graphics performance based on professional applications. The benchmark measures the 3D graphics performance of systems running under the OpenGL and Direct X application programming interfaces. The benchmark’s workloads, called viewsets, represent graphics content and behavior from actual applications.
The latest version is SPECviewperf 13, released on May 23, 2018. SPECgpc members at the time of V13 release include AMD, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Intel, Lenovo, and NVIDIA.
SPECviewperf 13 is a comprehensive upgrade of previous versions of the benchmark. Medical and energy viewsets incorporate new models and raycasting for volume visualization; the Maya viewset features new models based on the SPECapc for Maya 2017 benchmark; and the Creo viewset has been updated with fresh application traces. All other viewsets have been recompiled with minor changes. Results from SPECviewperf 13 are not comparable to those from earlier versions.
Other major updates in SPECviewperf 13 include:
- Support for 4K resolution displays.
- New reporting methods, including JSON output that enables more robust and flexible result parsing.
- A new user interface that will be standardized across all SPEC/GWPG benchmarks.
- New workloads and scoring that reflect the range of activities found in real-world applications.
- Various bug fixes and performance improvements.
We don't have many results with SPECviewperf 13 yet, as it was only released a few months ago. So we have compared the PNY Prevail Pro to the main desktop graphics competition installed in an Armari Magnetar S16T-RD1000G2 workstation.
It does lag behind every single card considerably, but as with SPECviewperf 12.1.1, the results show that this notebook will be able to perform all the main 3D content creation activity types adequately. It won't be noticeably less smooth as a desktop with the most intensive viewsets, but probably perfectly acceptable for virtually every type of activity bar that which requires more frame buffer than 8GB.
