Cincoze DS-1300 Industrial PC Review: Xeon-Powered Do-it-All

GPU Performance

GPUs in industrial PCs are more likely to be used for machine-learning tasks. GPU performance evaluation typically involves gaming workloads, which we will present in this section. However, given the target market, we will first look at the GPU compute performance (that also includes caffe as part of its workload set). Prior to that, a look at the capabilities of the GPU in the Cincoze DS-1302 is warranted.

The GTX 1650 inside the Cincoze DS-1302 is a Zotac card based on the TU117 Turing GPU. It is equipped with 4GB of GDDR6, and has all computing technologies other than ray tracing support.

GPU Compute Performance

All workloads in the SPECworkstation 3.1 benchmark were processed in 1080p resolution (system display running at 4Kp60). Scores are reported in the form of a SPEC ratio, with the performance of a HP Z240 tower system (using an Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5 / AMD Radeon Pro WX3100 GPU) in the denominator.

LuxRender uses LuxMark, a benchmark based on the new LuxCore physically based renderer, to render a chrome sphere resting on a grid of numbers in a beach scene. It supports heterogenous compute, utilizing both the CPU and GPU in the system. Caffe is a deep-learning framework benchmark, while the Folding@Home (fah) benchmark simulates protein folding and other types of molecular dynamics.

The presence of a discrete GPU enables the Cincoze DS-1302 to complete all the components successfully, with a significant performance uplift over the reference system. The HX500, with its iGPU, was not so lucky - only the LuxRender tests completed successfully.

SPECviewperf 2020.3

The SPECviewperf 2020.3 benchmark was processed with both official resolutions - 2K and 4K. These benchmarks are a measure of OpenGL performance. These tests do not run well on integrated GPUs - so, only results from the Cincoze DS-1302 are presented here.

The SPECviewperf 2020 results site does have a number of systems that can be compared against the scores in the table above.

GFXBench

The DirectX 12-based GFXBench tests from Kishonti are cross-platform, and available all the way down to smartphones, so it is not too difficult for discrete GPUs and modern integrated GPUs. We processed the offscreen versions of the 'Aztec Ruins' benchmark.

There is obviously a significant difference in the dGPU and iGPU performance for the 'Aztec Ruins' DX12 benchmark.

UL 3DMark

Four different workload sets were processed in 3DMark - Fire Strike, Time Spy, Night Raid, and Wild Life.

As expected, the discrete GPU-equipped Cincoze DS-1302 outscores the HX500 with its integrated GPU in the 3DMark workloads.