SPEC has released SPECviewperf 15.0.1 Linux Edition, the first Linux version of its workstation graphics benchmark in roughly five years. The update adds native AArch64 support, making it the first time SPECviewperf has run natively on Arm-based systems. It also brings a new GUI and a "snap-in" architecture that lets users install individual workloads rather than the full suite, which takes up nearly 100GB.
Compared with the previous Linux release, the benchmark includes eight of the 11 Windows workloads, with a new Blender 3.6 trace and updated CATIA, Creo, Maya, Solidworks, and NX tests. The suite targets OpenGL 4.5-compliant GPUs and currently supports AMD and NVIDIA hardware, but not Intel. That coverage includes integrated GPUs, which is useful for testing SoCs like AMD's Strix Halo and NVIDIA's GB10.
ServeTheHome's initial runs on Linux systems found AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo) mini-PCs often delivered more than twice the performance of a GB10-based Dell Pro Max, though the publication cautions that NVIDIA's Linux driver optimization for GB10 is still immature. Against a Threadripper 9980X system with a Radeon AI Pro R9700 discrete card, the Strix Halo integrated GPUs generally hit about half the performance and even outperformed the discrete card in the NX 2406 workload.