First, we measure workstation performance with SPECviewperf 2020 (version 3.1), which renders, rotates, and zooms in and out of solid and wireframe models at 1080p resolution. The three subtests represent PTC’s Creo CAD platform, Autodesk’s Maya modeling and simulation software for film, TV, and games, and Dassault Systemes’ SolidWorks 3D rendering package.
Next up is Blender, an open-source 3D content-creation suite for modeling, animation, simulation, and compositing. We record the time it takes for Blender 4.2 to render three distinct scenes to measure CPU and GPU rendering performance.
Finally, we use PugetBench for Creators to test DaVinci Resolve Studio 18 video-editor performance on systems suitable for that challenging app. These automated tasks and features push the CPU and GPU, letting us gauge real-world media-creation speeds.
The Pro Max landed just behind the powerful Talon across SPECviewperf. The Velocity Micro also kept pace except in Creo, where the specialized GPU drivers in the Pro Max and Talon delivered a clear advantage.
Blender’s CPU test scales to all available cores and threads, allowing the Falcon and ThinkStation to flex their muscle and pull well ahead of the Pro Max. In the GPU portion, however (not charted here), the Pro Max was even-keel with the Falcon, owing to their use of the same RTX Pro 6000 GPU.
The Pro Max truly whomped the crowd on the DaVinci Resolve benchmark, posting a dominant score that none of the other systems could match.
