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When benchmarking graphics applications to evaluate systems, the following are recommended: 1) Use workloads that are representative of the actual data used. 2) Segment the benchmark to separate non-interactive operations (such as loading a model) from interactive operations (editing or zooming in on the model. 3) Weight the interactive portions of the benchmark the way an end-user of the application would. 4) Don't bias the evaluation by previous work patterns - some ways of interacting with the model might have been avoided in the past because the graphics subsystem wasn't fast enough, but might mean substantial productivity benefits with VISUALIZE-class graphics. Conclusion HP's VISUALIZE family of graphics accelerators for Windows NT deliver state-of-the-art features at a range of performance points. Graphics performance is affected by many variables, which makes predicting the affect on application performance inherently difficult. The actual performance will not just vary from application to application, but it can also be highly dependent on the workload used. By looking at a few salient performance characteristics, one can begin to predict the affect of the graphics performance aspects to the type of application. 03/12/99 HP 9