Record SPECapc Unigraphics UGS-NX3 MCAD Benchmark Sun Ultra 40 M2
Thursday Jun 21, 2007
Record SPECapc Unigraphics UGS-NX3 MCAD Benchmark Sun Ultra 40 M2
The Sun Ultra 40 M2 (dual nVidia Quadro FX 5600s SLI mode & 3.0 GHz dual-core Opteron 2222 SE) sets a new world record running the SPEC APC UGS-NX3 graphics oriented MCAD benchmark beating all desktop platforms, including the the Woodcrest and Intel Core2 "Extreme Processor" X6800 cpu's.
In dual framebuffer SLI mode the Ultra 40 M2 with 3.0 GHz 2222 SE dual core Opteron processors outperforms a Dell 690 (3.0 GHz Woodcrest) by 7% overall.
SPECapc Unigraphics NX 3 Benchmark(Larger numbers indicate greater speed)
| System | Overall Composite |
CPU Composite |
File I/0 Composite |
Graphics Composite |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Ultra 40 M2 2x3.0GHz Opteron 2222SE 2x FX 5600 (SLI) |
9.61 | 4.47 | 2.93 | 20.95 |
| Dell Precision 690 2x3.0GHz Woodcrest 2x FX 4600 (SLI) |
8.98 | 3.52 | 3.06 | 27.95 |
| Sun Ultra 40 M2 2.8GHz Opteron 2220SE 2x FX 5500 (SLI) |
7.19 | 3.08 | 3.00 | 16.85 |
| Dell Precision 690 3.0GHz Woodcrest 2x FX 4500 (SLI) |
6.30 | 3.25 | 1.64 | 12.29 |
Benchmark Description
The SPEC APC MCAD benchmarks consist of tasks representative of what a designer would do in a typical session. This consists of "Graphics", "CPU", and "I/O" activities. A subscore is given for each of these subcategories as well as the overall score. The benchmark results shown here pertain to the SPEC APC UGS-NX3 benchmark. The MCAD application Unigraphics was used. This is a prominent system used by major engineering organizations worldwide.
The SPEC APC MCAD benchmark test suite for UGS-NX3 was developed under the auspices of the SPEC APC Committee. Results for a variety of current desktop platforms from various hardware vendors are shown at the SPEC APC website.
The characteristics of this MCAD application benchmark are very similar to other types of MCAD application benchmarks in that it consists of several groups of tasks each group involving different types of activity: graphics intensive, cpu intensive, and I/O intensive.
The benchmark scoring will improve with the clock rate of the processor. The cpu intensive operations are sufficiently large that faster dimms will definitely provide some benefit. The graphics operations are intensive enough that using a better framebuffer will also contribute to higher performance. In fact using a second framebuffer in nVidia SLI mode will also improve performance by providing up to double the graphics performance component. The models are large enough and the I/O big enough that using multiple striped disks to store the assemblies and parts as well as writing plot and other types of database and interface files will also improve performance .
Unigraphics is one of the prominent top 5 MCAD sytems used extensively by all sorts of diverse engineering organizations worldwide. There is a very big and broad market for the desktop platform that exhibits the leading price/performance with this code.
Disclosure Statement:
SPEC reg tm, SPECapc server mark of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Dell Precision 690,2xFX4600,overall composite 8.98; Sun Ultra 40 M2,2xFX5500,overall composite 7.19; Dell Precision 690,2xFX4500,overall composite 6.30. Sun Ultra 40 M2, 2xFX 5600, overall composite 9.61. Results from http://www.spec.org/gpc/apc.data/specapc_nx3_summary.html as of June 20, 2007.
| Results | |||||
| Dual FX 5600 |
Dual FX 5500 |
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| Overall Composite: | 9.61 | 7.19 | |||
| CPU Composite: | 4.47 | 3.08 | |||
| File I/O Composite: | 2.93 | 3.00 | |||
| Graphics Composite: | 20.95 | 16.85 | |||
| Reference Date: | 06/08/07 | 11/10/06 | |||
| System: | Sun Ultra U40 M2 | Sun Ultra U40 M2 | |||
| Processor/GHz: | Opteron 2222SE/3.0 | Opteron 2220SE/2.8 | |||
System Configuration
Hardware Configuration:Sun Ultra 40 M2
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2-socket 2x3.0 GHz dual core Opteron 2222 SE processors
2x4x1 GB DDR2 667 MHz dimms
2x nVidia Quadro FX 5600 (SLI)
Sun Ultra 40 M2
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2-socket 2x2.8 GHz dual core Opteron 2200 processors
2x4x1 GB DDR2 667 MHz dimms
2x nVidia Quadro FX 5500 (SLI)
64-bit Windows XP Pro SP 1
Unigraphics NX 3 (EDS-PLM Solutions)
SPEC APC UGS-NX3 Benchmark Test Suite
nVidia Quadro driver for Win XP: 160.02
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