SPECmark

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.

See also SPECint92, SPECfp92, SPECrate_int92,

SPECrate_fp92.

(1994-11-15)