(1) See specs and specification.
(2) (SPEC) (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, Warrenton, VA, www.specbench.org) An organization founded in 1988 to establish standard benchmarks for computers. Its first benchmark was a single CPU rating known as the "SPECmark," in which one SPECmark was equivalent in performance to a VAX 11/780. Although SPEC benchmarks continue to rate CPUs, SPEC has a variety of benchmarks to measure graphics subsystems as well as Java, and Web, mail, application and file servers.
A handful of CPU ratings follow to show a sample of the numbers in both the CPU2000 system and the earlier CPU95 system, which itself superseded CPU92 (SPECint92 and SPECfp92). See benchmark.
(2) (SPEC) (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, Warrenton, VA, www.specbench.org) An organization founded in 1988 to establish standard benchmarks for computers. Its first benchmark was a single CPU rating known as the "SPECmark," in which one SPECmark was equivalent in performance to a VAX 11/780. Although SPEC benchmarks continue to rate CPUs, SPEC has a variety of benchmarks to measure graphics subsystems as well as Java, and Web, mail, application and file servers.
A handful of CPU ratings follow to show a sample of the numbers in both the CPU2000 system and the earlier CPU95 system, which itself superseded CPU92 (SPECint92 and SPECfp92). See benchmark.
Integer Floating Point
SPEC CPU2000 CINT2000 CFP2000
3 GHz Pentium 4 1032 1092
450 MHz RS/6000 286 426
1 GHz Sun Fire 485 718
SPEC CPU95 SPECint95 SPECfp95
266 MHz Pentium II 10.8 6.8
250 MHz PPC 604e 11.1 7.8
300 MHz UltraSPARC-2 10.4 14.5
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