Over the years, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation’s SPECviewperf benchmark has turn into the business customary for workstation GPU benchmarking. Owing to the truth that, not like video video games, there’s little idea of a “standard” workload for CAD, content material creation, and visible knowledge evaluation instruments, in addition to the sheer complexity of those purposes, there may be an ongoing want for a standardized multi-application benchmark. This is each to supply a wider, holistic view of GPU efficiency beneath workstation purposes, and much more elementary than that, to offer a correct apples-to-apples testing atmosphere.
With updates to the workstation purposes used to generate the traces in SPECviewperf 13, the benchmark has been due for a refresh – and that has lastly arrived this week with the discharge of SPECviewperf 2020. An incremental replace over SPECviewperf 13, the 2020 model makes some vital adjustments together with help for 4K resolutions, in addition to updating the workload traces.
Meanwhile, with just a few techniques already setup for different wants, we determined to take a fast take a look at drive of the brand new model of the SPECviewperf, giving us a greater have a look at what’s new together with an concept of the place efficiency lies with the up to date benchmark workloads.
SPECviewperf 2020: What’s New
SPECviewperf 13 has been a element in lots of our system critiques – significantly on ones with a discrete GPU that focus on each the gaming {and professional} / content material creation markets. The new model of the benchmark, SPECviewperf 2020, brings alongside the next updates:
- Removal of the Showcase hint (showcase-02 viewset) from the suite (Autodesk now not supplies help for the applying)
- Updated traces utilizing newest variations of the purposes (3D Studio Max, Catia, Maya, and Solidworks)
- Updated fashions in choose viewsets (3dsmax-07, catia-06, creo-03, medical-03, and solidworks-05)
- All viewsets able to being processed at each 1080p and 4K resolutions (SPECviewperf 13’s 3ds Max and Showcase viewsets have been 1080p-only)
- Advisory notes on minimal quantity of vital VRAM, in addition to TDR settings for techniques with entry-level GPUs
There are additionally some updates to the consumer interface and benchmark outcomes administration. Command-line choices are supported formally. With SPECviewperf 13, it was unofficially doable by calling the Node-WebKit executable with the suitable choices. The new launcher in SPECviewperf 2020 makes issues extra simple.
Evaluation Setup
The SPECviewperf 2020 benchmark license makes it out there without spending a dime to everybody aside from sellers of computer systems and associated merchandise. We downloaded the newest model and took it for a take a look at drive with a few of dGPU-equipped techniques processed lately in our testbed.
- Skylake-based Desktop – I (Intel Core i5-6600Ok / NVIDIA RTX 2070) [ Review Configuration, with the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 2070 MINI within the first PCIe x16 slot ; Denoted by SKL-DT-2070 within the graphs under ]
- Skylake-based Desktop – II (Intel Core i5-6600Ok / AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 nano) [ Review Configuration, with the PowerColor RX VEGA 56 8GB HBM2-NANO Edition within the first PCIe x16 slot ; Denoted by SKL-DT-RXV56 within the graphs under ]
- Intel NUC9i9QNX Kit (Ghost Canyon NUC) (Intel Core i9-9980HK / NVIDIA RTX 2070) [ Review Configuration, benchmarked with a PCIe 3.zero x8 hyperlink between the GPU and the CPU ; Denoted by GCNUC-2070 within the graphs under ]
- Intel NUC9i9QNX Kit (Ghost Canyon NUC) (Intel Core i9-9980HK / AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 nano) [ Same configuration as above, aside from the alternative of the GPU ; Denoted by GCNUC-RXV56 within the graphs under ]
- MinisForum EliteMini H31G (Intel Core i5-9500F / NVIDIA GTX 1050Ti) [ Review Configuration ; Denoted by MF-H31G-1050Ti within the graphs under ]
- ASRock…
