ELSA GLoria II Quadro SDR

by Gary Jones on January 9, 2000 11:44 PM EST
p>To generate the composite scores which SPEC used, a dual Pentium II 300MHz system with 512 MB of memory and an Accel ECLIPSE graphics card was used as a reference system. The composite test scores are computed ratios with respect to this system. The composite scores obtained from the tests were:

Test System

ELSA GLoria II SDR

ELSA Gloria II SDR

CL Annihilator SDR

3Dlabs GVX1 AGP

3Dlabs GVX1 PCI

3Dlabs VX1

Diamond 770 Ultra - TNT2

Driver:

ELSA

3.65

3.65

2.14-1060

2.14-1060

2.15-0146b

3.65

Failed Test

 Overall  Composite Score

3.77

3.98

3.41

3.19

1.79

1.70

-- Wireframe composite

5.18

5.27

4.65

3.82

2.37

2.49

-- Shaded composite

2.48

3.13

3.55

3.52

1.50

1.40

-- Sub Assy composite

4.16

4.07

3.62

3.41

1.87

1.73

-- Other Composite

4.66

4.69

3.59

3.38

1.68

1.63

 

Even with the problems with test # 6, the GLoria II Quadro SDR had the best overall composite scores, with the 3.65 driver having a somewhat higher value than for the ELSA driver configuration.  When the problem with clipping is fixed the GLoria II should score in the mid 4’s on the overall composite, which would be about 30% better than those for the 3Dlabs GVX1.  The GLoria II appears to be the clear winner for this test.

How does the ELSA GLoria II card compare with the somewhat higher cost (more than  8K$) engineering workstations from HP, with the fx6+ graphics, and those that use the new Intergraph Wildcat 4110 graphics engine?  Using some of the more basic test scores combined with data from the SPEC site we get the following:

Test System

ELSA GLoria II SDR Quadro

ELSA GLoria II SDR Quadro

IBM Intell. M Pro 733

Wild 4110

HP P-Class 700, fx6+

Driver:

ELSA

3.65

From
SPEC

From
SPEC

Test #

(sec)

(sec)

(sec)

(sec)

2. Wireframe -smooth

109

107

82

85

5. Shaded

253

256

224

179

 

Notice that this comparison is not exactly one to one, in that the workstations had faster Coppermine CPU’s.  Even so, the GLoria II compares quite well with these more expensive systems.

SPEC’s APC Pro/E Ver. 20 CPU Utilization
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