SPECviewperf^® 2020 v3.1

The SPECviewperf^® 2020 v3.1 benchmark, released on August 4, 2022, is the worldwide standard for measuring graphics performance based on professional applications. The benchmark measures the 3D graphics performance of systems running under the OpenGL and DirectX application programming interfaces. The benchmark workloads are called viewsets, and represent graphics content and behavior from actual workstation-class applications, without the need to install the applications themselves.

Major updates in the SPECviewperf v3.1 benchmark include:

Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1709 (Fall Creators Update / RS3) or newer, or Microsoft Windows 11
Enhanced support for 4K resolution — When 3840×2160 resolution is selected, it is more prominently featured in the GUI and results files to make clearer that the benchmark was run at 4K resolution.

The SPECviewperf 2020 v3.1 benchmark supports all the features previously introduced in the SPECviewperf 2020 v1.0 benchmark, released in October 2020:

New viewsets created from API traces of the latest versions of 3ds Max, Catia, Maya, and Solidworks applications.
Updated models in the viewsets based on 3ds Max, Catia, Creo, Solidworks, and real-world medical applications.
Support within all viewsets for both 2K and 4K resolution displays.
User interface improvements, including better interrogation and assessment of underlying hardware, clickable thumbnails of screen grabs, and a new results manager.
Support for running the benchmark using command-line options.

Hardware and Operating System Requirements

Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1709 (Fall Creators Update / RS3) or Windows 11 or newer
16GB of system RAM or greater
80GB of available disk space
A minimum screen resolution of 1920×1080 for submissions published on the SPEC website
OpenGL 4.5 (for catia-06, creo-03, energy-03, maya-06, medical-03, snx-04, and solidworks-07) and DirectX 12 API support (for 3dsmax-07)
A GPU with 2GB or greater dedicated GPU memory

Workload Details

maya-06

The maya-06 viewset was created from traces of the graphics workload generated by the Maya 2019 application from Autodesk. The viewset includes numerous rendering modes supported by the application, including shaded mode, ambient occlusion, multi-sample antialiasing, and transparency. All tests are rendered using Viewport 2.0.

energy-03

The energy-03 viewset is based on rendering techniques used by the open-source OpendTect seismic visualization application. Similar to medical imaging such as MRI or CT, geophysical surveys generate image slices through the subsurface that are built into a 3D grid. Volume rendering provides a 2D projection of this 3D volumetric grid for further analysis and interpretation. In addition to the volume rendering, the test includes both inline and crossline planes (slices in the X and Y planes). Also, for some subtests, “horizons” are present – these are geological strata boundaries of interest, generated by exploration geophysicists, and are rendered using textured triangle strips. The 3D datasets used in this viewset are real-world seismic datasets found at https://wiki.seg.org/wiki/Open_data". They were translated from their native SEG-Y format and compressed using JPEG-2000. Note: subtests 3 and 6 will have a score of 0.01 on GPUs with less than 3584MB (3.5GB) of framebuffer memory.

catia-06

The catia-06 viewset was created from traces of the graphics workload generated by the CATIA V5 and 3DEXPERIENCE CATIA applications from Dassault Systèmes. Model sizes range from 5.1 to 21 million vertices. The viewset includes several rendering modes supported by the application, including anti-aliasing, shaded, and shaded with edges.

creo-03

The creo-03 viewset was created from traces of the graphics workload generated by the Creo 4 application from PTC. Model sizes range from 20 to 48 million vertices. The viewsets include numerous rendering modes supported by the application. Order-independent transparency is enabled for all models with transparent components.

3dsmax-07

The 3dsmax-07 viewset was created from traces of the graphics workload generated by 3ds Max 2016 using the default Nitrous DX11 driver. The models for this viewset came from the SPECapc for 3ds Max 2015 benchmark and other sources. In order to best approximate real-world use cases, several tests incorporate multiple viewsets on screen, each using a different rendering method. The styles of rendering in the viewset reflect those most commonly used in major markets, including realistic, shaded and wireframe. Some lesser-used but interesting rendering modes such as facets, graphite and clay are also incorporated. The animations in the viewset are a combination of model spin and camera fly-through, depending on the model.

snx-04

The snx-04 viewset was created from traces of the graphics workload generated by the NX 8.0 application from Siemens PLM. Model sizes range from 7.15 to 8.45 million vertices. The viewset includes numerous rendering modes supported by the application, including wireframe, anti-aliasing, shaded, shaded with edges, and studio mode.

solidworks-07

The solidworks-07 viewset was created from traces of Dassault Systèmes’ SolidWorks 2020 application. Models used in the viewset range in size from 2.1 to 21 million vertices. The viewset includes numerous rendering modes supported by the application, including shaded mode, shaded with edges, ambient occlusion, shaders, and environment maps. Note that this benchmark is not representative of Solidworks 2020 performance if less than 4GB of dedicated GPU memory is present, and should not be used to draw conclusions about Solidworks 2020 application performance with less than 4GB of video RAM.

medical-03

The medical-03 viewset demonstrates the performance of several medical visualization volume rendering techniques. The first is "slice rendering", where many 2D slices are projected through the volume and composited on the screen. The second is "raycasting" where rays are projected through the volume accumulating the final pixel color. Two different transfer functions are used: 1D, where the density is used to look up each voxel color, and 2D, where density and gradient magnitude are used to look up each voxel color. A clipping plane is used in several tests. The Tuvok visualization library is used for rendering.

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Benchmark Run Rules

The system under test must perform all of the respective graphics API’s functionality and other work requested by the benchmark.
The systems under test must be OpenGL Conformant for the pixel format or visual used by the benchmark.
Settings for environment variables, registry variables and hints must not disable compliant behavior.
No interaction is allowed with the system under test during the benchmark, unless required by the benchmark.
The system under test cannot skip frames during the benchmark run.
It is not permissible to change the system configuration during the running of a given benchmark. For example, one cannot power off the system, make some changes, then power back on and run the rest of the benchmark.
Screen grabs for SPECviewperf will be full window size.
The color depth used must be at least 24 bits (true color), with at least 8 bits of red, 8 bits of green and 8 bits of blue.
If a depth buffer is requested, it must have at least 24 bits of resolution.
The display raster resolution must be at least as high as that selected in the “Resolution” dropdown of the SPECviewperf user interface and must fully display all of the benchmark tests being submitted. Higher desktop resolutions may be used, and while the operating system may create the appearance of a higher raster resolution, the actual raster resolution corresponds to that selected and will be noted in the results file and log files. An optional feature to adjust the raster resolution to the native resolution of the display (less a ten-pixel border) may be selected, but not all viewsets will support this method of scaling. Therefore, native resolution runs are not considered official and results are unacceptable for publication.
The screen resolution must be large enough to run the individual tests at their requested window size, with no reduction or clipping of test window contents.
Results to be made public must be generated by the official benchmark which may not be changed, except to correct errors in reporting by the benchmark, and these changes shall be disclosed voluntarily upon submission.
Screen DPI scaling must be set to 100%, and no UI or other window elements (including but not limited to task bars, tool bars, menu bars, and title bars) may occlude the viewport rendering context. Such elements must be configured to auto-hide or to be sized to allow all test window contents to be visible on-screen without being clipped or obscured. Results which show viewport warnings in viewset log files are unacceptable for publication.
Tests may be run with or without a desktop/window manager, but must be run on some native windowing system.
Virtualized configurations, defined as any operating system configuration running on a hypervisor or virtualization layer of any kind, must include the word “virtualized” in the comment field of the config.txt file. This information must be populated before the execution of the benchmark to ensure the results reflect this attribute.
Virtualized configurations as defined above must also include a declaration of the transport layer name and version used by the virtualization software in parenthesis after the graphics accelerator listed in the Graphics Accelerator field of the Graphics Hardware Configuration section of the result file.
Virtualized configurations as defined above must also include a declaration of the hypervisor name and version used by the virtualization software in parenthesis after the model listed in the Model field of the System Hardware Configuration section of the result file.
All configurations shall include a link (URL) to a publicly-accessible device driver package used to generate the submission.

Submission and Review Rules

Submission Content Rules
1. These rules are specific to SPECgpc and shall apply in addition to the Submission Content Rules in the GWPG Project Groups Ruleset.
2. A SPECviewperf submission can be for one or more viewsets per configuration.
3. A SPECviewperf submission must be run on a 64-bit operating system.
4. The Specviewperf submission must include all directory and files located in the results folder. The results folder is created by the benchmark with the following naming convention: “results_”YYYYMMDD”T”HHMM”_t1”
Submission Process Rules
1. These rules are specific to SPECgpc and shall apply in addition to the Submission Process Rules in the GWPG Project Groups Ruleset.
2. The submission file names must contain gpc_v for SPECviewperf, contain all lower case letters and not contain ‘.’ except prior to the zip or tar file extension (e.g. intel_gpc_v_jun10_v0.zip). The file version is denoted prior to the file extension. The initial file version is v0. Resubmitted files must increment the version number.
Review Period Rules
1. These rules are specific to SPECgpc and shall apply in addition to the Review Period Rules in the GWPG Project Groups Ruleset.
2. Reviewers will decide if the image quality of the submission is sufficiently adherent to the respective graphics API’s specification to satisfy the intended end user’s expectations. If a reviewer rejects the quality of an image for a stated reason, the submitter can ask for a vote of the full SPECgpc electorate. In case of a tie the submission is rejected.
3. System configurations submitted for the SPECgpc benchmark suite must be able to run the corresponding SPECapc application benchmarks if applicable. If this criterion is not met the submission will be rejected.

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SPECviewperf^® 2020 v3.1

Hardware and Operating System Requirements

Workload Details

maya-06

energy-03

catia-06

creo-03

3dsmax-07

snx-04

solidworks-07

medical-03

Benchmark Run Rules

Submission and Review Rules

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solidworks-07

medical-03

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