SPECmark
SPECmark
(benchmark)While the old average SPECmark89 has been popular with theindustry and the press, SPEC has intentionally *not* definedan average "SPECmark92" over all CPU benchmarks of the1992 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 towardfloating-point. Customers' workloads are different, someinteger-only, some floating-point intensive, some mixed.Current processors have developed their strengths in a morediverse way (some more emphasizing integer performance, somemore floating-point performance) than in 1989.
Some SPECmark results are available here.
See also SPECint92, SPECfp92, SPECrate_int92,SPECrate_fp92.