SPECgpc Releases SPECviewperf 13 Benchmark, Adds Overhauled UI & 4K Support

It’s a big week for those who like to measure the viewport performance of leading applications, as SPECgpc members have just launched their latest benchmark: SPECviewperf 13. SPECviewperf, and SPEC in general, is no stranger to our results pages. Our just-posted video tackling Radeon Pro and Quadro performance analyzed results from eight suites found in SPECviewperf 12.

Excerpt from SPECviewperf 13’s medical test

It goes without saying that I will be integrating SPECviewperf 13 results into our content soon. This release comes at a good time, since the April Update Windows 10 release has been out for a few weeks, so I’ve been in the process of updating the test OS and test suite in general. Since I had the workstation test rig hooked up, I decided to give the Quadro P6000 a quick run through SPECviewperf 13:

These results mean very little on their own, but that’s the nature of not having comparison results ready. If you’re curious about your own workstation performance in comparison, you can download SPECviewperf 13 for free. Just be sure you set aside at least an hour for the test to complete (unless you simply want to test a specific viewset). To be absolutely clear, results from SPECviewperf 12 are in no way compatible with 13, so don’t make that mistake!

In addition to some of the tests being overhauled or augmented, SPECviewperf 13 adds official 4K support (+1 to another test on our agenda), new reporting methods, an improved user interface, and a number of bug fixes. Overall, an awesome release, and one I can’t wait to generate full results with.

SPECviewperf 13 offers granular sub-test results

If you don’t know the SPEC name, you definitely know some of the names that are directly responsible for SPECviewperf’s existence. With 13, contributing companies include AMD, NVIDIA, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Intel, and Lenovo. Suffice to say, SPECviewperf is a trustworthy benchmark, having been given the green light by all of those, many of which are direct competitors with the others.

And with that, I have some benchmarking to do!