Next up we have some numbers from
SPECviewperf 2020, the latest version of the venerable SPEC benchmark as of this article's publication. The entire test suite has been overhauled for this version, and it includes a new extensible architecture that's designed to make SVP easier to customize and adapt for a variety of workloads. The test also includes new medical and energy datasets, updated classic viewsets, and includes a test for
Autodesk Showcase.
 |
|
SPECviewperf 2020 |
|
Workstation Graphics Performance |
|
SPECviewperf includes a variety of tests, which produce significantly different framerates, so we've sorted them into three groups to make the results a bit easier to sort through. Please note the legends at the bottom of each chart, which designate the application or viewset used...
The Radeon Pro W6800 lead the pack in seven of eight of SPECviewperf's tests. It was only in the TriStar-Creo Parametric test (creo-03) that the
Quadro RTX 4000 managed to pull ahead. In the rests of the test though, the Radeon Pro W6800 clearly led the pack.
 |
| VR And Ray Tracing Benchmarks |
| Testing VR And DXR Game Readiness |
|
Futuremark’s VRMark is designed to test a PC’s readiness for the
HTC Vive and
Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets. The benchmark does not, however, require that one of the headsets is attached to the PC to run and it uses an in-house graphics engine and content to ensure comparable results between different platforms. We ran the "Blue Room" VRMark test at defaults settings here, which is currently the most taxing test offered by the tool. We followed up UL's VRMark with the DirectX Ray Tracing (DXR) Feature test recently added to the 3DMark suite...
Once again we see the Radeon Pro W6800 leading the pack. For this more traditional rendering workload, the Radeon Pro W6800 doubles the performance of its predecessor, the Radeon Pro W5700.
AMD's Radeon Pro WX8200 and W5700 don't have the ability to run 3DMark's DXR Feature test, so they drop off the chart here. Versus the Quadro RTX 4000, the Radeon Pro W6800 offers significantly better ray tracing performance. The scales would surely tip back in favor of NVIDIA if we had one of the mid-range to high-end, Ampere-based pro-vis GPUs on hand, though. The Radeon Pro WX 8200's performance here is on-par with a Radeon RX 6800, but trails cards like the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti or 3070.
|
| Blackmagic RAW Speed Test |
| 8K RAW Image Decode |
|
The Blackmagic RAW Speed Test is a CPU and GPU benchmarking tool that tests the speed of decoding full-resolution Blackmagic RAW frames. The tool can be used to evaluate the performance at various resolutions and bitrates on the CPU or using OpenCL on a GPU. We're reporting two results here, both using 8K resolution, but at differing bitrates.
The Blackmagic RAW speed test has the new Radeon Pro W6800 out running its AMD-made counterparts, but the Quadro RTX 4000 churns out another victory at both compression levels.
