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TMCNet: SPECapc Releases Lightwave 3D Benchmark

[April 10, 2009]

SPECapc Releases Lightwave 3D Benchmark

Apr 10, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- SPEC's Application Performance Characterization (SPECapc) project group has released new performance evaluation software for systems running NewTek LightWave 3D v9.6 software.

LightWave is a modeling, rendering and animation solution used for visual effects in television, film, broadcast graphics, games, visualization, print and web.

SPECapc for LightWave v9.6, developed in cooperation with NewTek, provides workloads that simulate a typical LightWave 3D workflow. Models ranging up to 1.75 million polygons represent such applications as 3D character animation, architectural review, and industrial design. Scores for individual workloads are composited under three categories: interactive, render and multitask.


"We at NewTek are proud of being chosen as a standard to determine the actual performance of any hardware system and to have LightWave included in the respected SPECapc suite of benchmarking tools for computationally intensive applications," says Jay Roth, president, 3D Division, NewTek. "Congratulations to all - this is great work and provides a valuable industry metric." "We are excited to deliver a benchmark with such a complete representation of a LightWave v9.6 workflow," says Dan Bennett, SPECapc chair. "Our thanks to NewTek for its cooperation and input throughout the development process." SPECapc for LightWave 3D v9.6 is available for free downloading on the SPEC web site at spec.org/gwpg. It is available currently for Microsoft Windows XP and Vista 32- and 64-bit platforms. A Mac OS X version is planned for the near future.

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