SPECapc Releases New UGS NX Benchmark

By DE Editors

September 13, 2007 – SPEC’s (Warrenton, VA) Application Performance Characterization (SPECapc) project group has released updated performance evaluation software for systems running UGS’ NX digital product development software.

SPECapc for UGS NX 4 includes two new models provided by UGS to represent a broader range of dataset types and sizes. New functionality from the SPEC/GWPG website. UGS NX 4 is also included in the latest benchmark.

Operations tested by SPECapc for UGS NX 4 include loading parts, boolean operations on solids, rotations, zooms, pans, front and back clipping, modifying perspective parameters, full-view generation, and different edge modes. The benchmark records results for graphics, CPU and disk I/O operations, as well as a composite number for total system performance.

SPECapc for UGS NX 4 is available for free downloading on the SPEC/GWPG website. The SPECapc group also provides free benchmarks for systems running Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0, Solid Edge V17, SolidWorks 2007, 3ds Max 9, and Maya 6.5.

Current members in SPECapc, which formed in 1997 to address performance evaluation based on popular workstation applications, include AMD, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, NVIDIA and Sun Microsystems.

For more information, visit SPEC.org.

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