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FireGL Cards Show Top Performance in MCAD Benchmark Tests.(News Briefs)

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| January 01, 2001 | Donelan, Jenny | COPYRIGHT 2001 PennWell Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

This month, we list the seven workstation and graphics card combinations that most recently received the best scores for the medMCAD-01 subset of the SPECviewperf 6.1.2 benchmark. The medMCAD-01 viewset is designed to model the graphics performance of a range of MCAD applications such as Pro/Engineer from PTC and SolidWorks from SolidWorks Corp. The viewset consists of 12 tests, each of which represents a different mode of operation. Four of the tests use a wireframe model; the rest use a shaded model.

The mean scores represent the combined, weighted results of the 12 tests, measured in the number of frames per second the machines were able to execute. The larger the numbers, the better the performance.

To see how the same systems fared in other benchmark tests, or to review results ...

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