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SPEC CPU Benchmark Suites
Current Benchmarks
- SPEC CPU 2017
- The latest version of SPEC's popular processor
performance tests, released in June 2017.
Retired Benchmarks
- SPEC CPU 2006
- The previous generation of the processor
performance tests.
- SPEC CPU 2000
- The previous release of SPEC's popular processor performance
tests; retired in February 2007.
- SPEC CPU 95
- Obsoleted with the release of CPU 2000 in December 1999.
- SPEC CPU 92
- Obsoleted with the release of CPU 95 in August 1995.
- SPECmark aka SPEC CPU 89
- Predecessor to the CPU 92 suites, now long obsolete.
Historical perspective: IEEE celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Microprocessor in the November/December 2021 issue of IEEE Micro. One of the articles in the issue proviedes historical persective on performance by using the 30-year-old original SPECmark with a year 2021 CPU chip. See
J. L. Henning, "How Many VAXes Fit in the Palms of Your Hands?," in IEEE Micro, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 140-143, 1 Nov.-Dec. 2021, doi: 10.1109/MM.2021.3112911.
The article is available from IEEE, or you can access the author's pre-publication copy and
the companion video.
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