MSI X99A Workstation Motherboard Review

SPECviewperf 12

SPECviewperf 12 is the worldwide standard for measuring graphics performance based on professional applications. The latest version is SPECviewperf 12.1, which extends performance measurement from physical to virtualized workstations. SPECgpc members at the time of V12.1 release include AMD, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Intel, Lenovo, Micron and NVIDIA. SPECviewperf 12 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.

Most of the SPECviewperf 12 tests are not processor-sensitive, so the MSI X99A Workstations's NVIDIA Quadro M5000 cruises ahead of the K5200 in the PC Specialist comparison system in virtually every viewset. The one difference is the SolidWorks-based sw-03, where the 4.4GHz frequency of the Intel Core i7 is showing some advantage over the Xeon E5's 3.4GHz Turbo mode, despite the MSI's more recent graphics. But again this is a result we have seen before.

Note that the 3dsmax-05 workload has been reintroduced with SPECviewperf 12.1, and wasn't available in the version of SPECviewperf 12 used to test the PC Specialist system.

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