Computing Dictionary
SPECmark definition
benchmark The average of a set of
floating-point and integer
SPEC benchmark results.
While the old average
SPECmark89 has been popular with the industry and the press,
SPEC has intentionally *not* defined an average "SPECmark92" over all
CPU benchmarks of the 1992 suites (
CINT92 and
CFP92), for the following reasons: With 6 integer (
CINT92) and 14
floating-point (
CFP92) benchmarks, the average would be biased too much toward floating-point. Customers' workloads are different, some integer-only, some floating-point intensive, some mixed. Current processors have developed their strengths in a more diverse way (some more emphasizing integer performance, some more floating-point performance) than in 1989.
Some SPECmark results are available
here (ftp://ftp.cdf.toronto.edu/pub/spectable).
See also
SPECint92,
SPECfp92,
SPECrate_int92,
SPECrate_fp92.
(1994-11-15)
