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SPEC ViewPerf

The official OpenGL benchmark of the System Performance Evaluation Corporation. As we showed in our AGP case study, SPEC benches are very sensitive to bandwidth. Please keep in mind that the individual scores cannot be compared between reviews since both platform and graphics adapters are entirely different, not to mention the impact of different driver revisions on performance.

Advanced Visualizer (AWadvs-04)

The Advanced Visualizer suite is no longer included in ViewPerf 7.0 but we used the -04 version from ViewPerf 6.12. A 13% gain from Dual Channel technology will delight the workstation community which is the prime target group for Granite Bay anyway.

DRV-08

It gets better in the DRV-08 suite, 38% performance gain is roughly equivalent to doubling CPU speed.

Data Explorer (DX-07)

Compared to the above, the 11.5% gain in Data Explorer look pale but they are still a serious achievement. Note that in all three suites HT does not matter.

Pro Engineer (ProE-01)

Another 27% gain in a demanding application.

The gains in the remaining three benchmarks within ViewPERF 7.0 showed around 10-15% improvement but the point has been made anyway.

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