SPECviewperf 10 – Multithreaded testing
SPECviewperf 10


This test runs the base SPECviewperf 10 benchmarks with varying thread counts to see how the graphics subsystem scales with additional CPU power.

Professional Graphics Roundup: NVIDIA Quadro and AMD FirePro - Graphics Cards 58

Professional Graphics Roundup: NVIDIA Quadro and AMD FirePro - Graphics Cards 59

Professional Graphics Roundup: NVIDIA Quadro and AMD FirePro - Graphics Cards 60

Professional Graphics Roundup: NVIDIA Quadro and AMD FirePro - Graphics Cards 61

Professional Graphics Roundup: NVIDIA Quadro and AMD FirePro - Graphics Cards 62

Professional Graphics Roundup: NVIDIA Quadro and AMD FirePro - Graphics Cards 63

Though the results here are again mixed, it would seem apparent that the AMD FirePro driver has more difficulty taking advantage of extra CPU horsepower than the NVIDIA Quadro software.  A look at the 3dsmax-04 result clearly shows performance on both the FX 4800 and FX 4700 cards scaling well into the 4 thread territory while the AMD FirePro v8700 and v5700 only increase from 1 to 2 threads, not 2 to 4 threads.  The only test that saw negative scaling on both sets of GPUs was the Maya benchmark where performance fell as much as 35% or so as thread count increased.

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