NewTek is pleased to partner with SPEC to provide a workstation performance benchmark that runs under LightWave v9.6. SPECapc® for Lightwave v9.6 is a native LightWave 3D plug-in that reads a text file containing a series of instructions; executes them within LightWave 3D and records the timing of each command sent to LightWave 3D.
The benchmark is designed to study 32 and 64 bit performance, multi-core scalability, OpenGL performance and I/O performance that depends mainly on the CPU. A full license of LightWave is not required for the benchmark to work, the free trial presented on this page is enough. SPECapc® for Lightwave v9.6 will also run in the Discovery mode that the trial edition reverts to after 30 days.
"NewTek is proud to have LightWave included in the respected SPECapc suite of benchmarking tools for computationally-intensive applications. LightWave is a very computationally-intensive application, and using LightWave illustrates a real world use case that is about as accurate as can be to determine the actual performance of any hardware system. Congratulations to db&w GBR for the creation of aspects of this benchmark - this was great work indeed."
Jay Roth, president 3D division, NewTek Inc.
Select the LightWave version you would like to install:
- LightWave v9.6 32/64-bit - Version 9.6 (Windows Vista/2000/XP) 142MB .exe
- LightWave v9.6 32-bit - Version 9.6 (Mac OS X Universal Binary) 75.6MB .dmg
- To benefit from the 30-day trial version click here
Get the appropriate benchmark suite from this page




