You will then need to select the appropriate profile in the control panel. You can do this by selecting: Properties/Settings/Advanced/Quadro FX xxxx/Performance & Quality Settings. In the “Active profile”
Finally, you need to turn “Vertical sync” off. While still in the “Performance & Quality Settings” window, check the “Vertical sync” box under the “Settings for 3D App – Modeling AFR”. Then un- check the box at the bottom of the window that reads
Select “Apply” and “OK”. You are now ready to run the SPECviewperf benchmarks.
You can download the SPECviewperf benchmarks at: www.spec.org/benchmarks.html#gpc
Comparison Benchmark Results (SLI Frame Rendering for Windows)
Test platform:
HP xw9300 workstation
NVIDIA nForce Professional MCP
Two AMD Opteron 250 processors (2.39 GHz)
1 or 2 NVIDIA Quadro FX 4400 graphics boards
2 GB RAM ECC Registered DRAM Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 NVIDIA graphics driver version 77.13
SPECviewperf 8.1 results
Benchmarks | SLI: Two GPUs | Single GPU |
| Two NVIDIA Quadro FX 4400 boards | One NVIDIA Quadro FX 4400 board |
36.02 | 34.38 | |
27.97 | 26.63 | |
30.02 | 21.83 | |
21.87 | 21.78 | |
54.19 | 53.97 | |
61.11 | 54.96 | |
34.04 | 25.33 | |
54.59 | 37.02 |