SPECviewperf™ is a portable OpenGL performance
benchmark program written in C. It was developed by IBM. Later updates and
significant contributions were made by SGI, Digital and other SPECopcSM project group members. SPECviewperf provides a vast
amount of flexibility in benchmarking OpenGL performance. Currently, the program
runs on most implementations of UNIX, Windows NT, Windows 95/98 and
Linux.
Yet again
we can see that increasing MHz to 2.16GHz results in faster scores in these processor intensive tests. The AMD AthlonXP 2000+
tested better here however.
The Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer (POV-Ray) is
an all round excellent package, but there are two things that particularly make
it stand out above the rest of the crowd. Firstly, it's free, and secondly, the
source is distributed so you can compile it on virtually any
platform.
Lower numbers denote faster calculation times
(seconds), and hence, better performance.
| POVRay Benchmark Results (lower is better) |
|
Processor |
seconds |
Ranking |
| 1. |
Pentium 4 2 GHz |
304 sec |
 |
| 2. |
Pentium 4 2.16GHz |
281 sec |
 |
With no
special instructions for either CPU, the Pentium 4 produces good, but not
especially amazing results in POVray. Knowing AMD's history with number
crunching this is not very surprising to see, but still we can
see some improvement with the P4 when the FSB is
increased.
SPECviewPerf 6.1.2
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