Benchmarks
Over the years, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation's SPECviewperf benchmark has become the industry standard for workstation GPU benchmarking. Owing to the fact that, unlike video games, there's little concept of a "standard" workload for CAD, content creation, and visual data analysis tools, as well as the sheer complexity of these applications, there is an ongoing need for a standardized multi-application benchmark. This is both to offer a wider, holistic view of GPU performance under workstation applications, and even more fundamental than that, to provide a proper apples-to-apples testing environment. With the previous release of SPECviewperf dating back to 2013, the benchmark has been due for a refresh – and that has finally arrived this week with the release of SPECviewperf 2020. An incremental update...
UL's PCMark 10 Adds Battery Life Tests
One of our favorite benchmark suites is PCMark 10 from UL, and today they are announcing that the latest version of their testing suite is gaining some new battery...
0 by Brett Howse on 5/27/2019
Maxon Releases Cinebench R20 Benchmark
One of the key benchmarks that have been used in the industry is Cinebench. The latest version has been Cinebench R15, released for version 15 of Cinema 4D. In...
57 by Ian Cutress on 3/5/2019
Huawei’s GPU Turbo: Valid Technology with Overzealous Marketing
One of the biggest announcements from Huawei this year is that of its new GPU Turbo technology. The claims that it could provide more performance at less power, without...
64 by Ian Cutress & Andrei Frumusanu on 9/4/2018
Huawei & Honor's Recent Benchmarking Behaviour: A Cheating Headache
Does anyone remember our articles regarding unscrupulous benchmark behavior back in 2013? At the time we called the industry out on the fact that most vendors were increasing thermal...
84 by Andrei Frumusanu & Ian Cutress on 9/4/2018
Kishonti GFXBench 5.0 Aztec Ruins: OpenGL & Vulkan Benchmark Hands-On
Today Kishonti have finally released their final update to GFXBench version 5.0. The update introduces the new Aztec Ruins scene in two complexity modes as well as OpenGL, Vulkan...
40 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/24/2018
BAPCo Publishes SYSmark 2018
One of the bigger consortiums for developing benchmarks is BAPCo. Over the years the company has released a variety of benchmarking tools, such as MobileMark, TabletMark, and SYSmark. This...
16 by Ian Cutress on 8/17/2018
Basemark Releases New "Basemark GPU" Mobile and PC Benchmark
Today Basemark released a new cross-platform benchmark, aptly named Basemark GPU. The new benchmark is a result of what is claimed to be two and a half years of...
32 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/20/2018
Meltdown & Spectre: Analyzing Performance Impacts on Intel's NUC7i7BNH
One of the consequences of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, besides the immediate security concerns, is what it has meant for our ongoing testing and benchmarking operations. Along with...
84 by Ganesh T S on 3/23/2018
Futuremark To Release VRMark Cyan Room on November 22: A DX12 VR Benchmark
This week, Futuremark announced that their new Cyan Room DX12 test will be released for VRMark next Wednesday (November 22). This comes around a year after VRMark’s original release...
2 by Nate Oh on 11/17/2017
A First Look at Futuremark’s New 3DMark Time Spy Extreme: DX12 Benchmark Now in 4K
This week, Futuremark unveiled Time Spy Extreme, a 4K version of the DX12 gaming benchmark released last July. Slotting into the 3DMark suite, Time Spy Extreme is available under...
16 by Nate Oh on 10/4/2017
Test Driving Futuremark's PCMark 10 Benchmark
Futuremark is a well-respected provider of computer benchmark applications. Their PCMark and 3DMark benchmarks have been around for almost 20 years, and provide a good indication of the system...
18 by Ganesh T S on 6/5/2017
Basemark Releases VRScore, a VR & VR Headset Benchmark Suite for Windows
Back in 2015 as the development of the first generation of modern VR headsets was coming to a close, benchmark developer Basemark announced that they would be applying their...
5 by Ryan Smith on 1/30/2017
Evaluating Futuremark's Servermark VDI on the Supermicro SYS-5028D-TN4T
Standardized benchmarks with industry-wide acceptance are a must for evaluating computing systems. These benchmarks may evaluate the system as a whole, or target specific aspects. Vendors such as Futuremark...
18 by Ganesh T S on 9/1/2016
Futuremark Releases 3DMark Time Spy DirectX 12 Benchmark
Today Futuremark is pulling the covers off of their new Time Spy benchmark, which is being released today for all Windows editions of 3DMark. A showcase of sorts of...
75 by Daniel Williams on 7/14/2016
3DMark Adds VRMark Preview and an Updated UI
We now have the release of the high end consumer VR headsets behind us. That sets the stage for a (hopefully) steady flow of software to use with the...
4 by Daniel Williams on 4/7/2016
VRScore: Crytek and Basemark Announce New Benchmark Release
Virtual Reality has definitely been playing the slow and steady race for a while now. Thankfully, with the approach of consumer VR headsets going on sale, more of us...
5 by Daniel Williams on 3/15/2016
Behind The Scenes: Evaluating NAS Units with Solution-Based Benchmarks
Recently, I had the opportunity to visit a leading NAS vendor and provide some insights on how we evaluate NAS units. In particular, the talk dealt with the importance...
17 by Ganesh T S on 10/29/2015
Basemark & Crytek To Develop New VR Benchmark
After a very public development process over the last couple of years, this year we have seen the consumer release of virtual reality headsets become a matter of when...
8 by Ryan Smith on 8/6/2015
UL Acquires Futuremark, Expanding into Benchmarking Services
Earlier this week, in something of an unexpected move, UL (Underwriters Laboratories) and Futuremark announced that UL had acquired the benchmarking company, signaling their expansion into the software development...
14 by Jarred Walton on 11/7/2014
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