Armari Magnetar M16E-AW1200-GPU Workstation Review

The SPECgpcSM project group's SPECviewperf 11, released in late June 2010, is totally new graphics performance evaluation software. Among the major changes are a new GUI, fully updated viewsets traced from newer versions of applications, larger models, and advanced OpenGL functionality such as shading and vertex buffer objects (VBOs).

SPECviewperf 11 has been around quite some time, and AMD argues that it is no longer representative of modern professional 3D workloads. But we continue to include it here for backwards reference. The results are decent across the board, but the comparison with the NVIDIA Quadro K5000 is very telling. The K5000 outperforms the W8100 almost across the board, sometimes quite significantly, with the only exception being the Ensight-04 test.

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