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SPEC CPU® 2006 (Retired: January 2018)
The SPEC CPU® 2006 benchmark is SPEC's industry-standardized, CPU-intensive benchmark suite, stressing a system's processor, memory subsystem and compiler. BENCHMARK RETIREMENT: With the release of the SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark suite, the CPU 2006 suite has been retired. See below for details on the retirement schedule and result publication. This benchmark suite includes the SPECint® benchmarks and the SPECfp® benchmarks. The SPECint® 2006 benchmark contains 12 different benchmark tests and the SPECfp® 2006 benchmark contains 19 different benchmark tests. SPEC designed this suite to provide a comparative measure of compute-intensive performance across the widest practical range of hardware using workloads developed from real user applications. These benchmarks are provided as source code and require the user to be comfortable using compiler commands as well as other commands via a command interpreter using a console or command prompt window in order to generate executable binaries. The SPEC CPU® 2006 benchmark has several different ways to measure computer performance. One way is to measure how fast the computer completes a single task; this is a speed measurement. Another way is to measure how many tasks a computer can accomplish in a certain amount of time; this is called a throughput, capacity or rate measurement.
For more information about the SPECrate® and SPECspeed® metrics, see the technical documentation. The current version of the benchmark suite is V1.2, released in September 2011. SPEC CPU2006 RetirementWith the release of SPEC CPU2017, SPEC has retired SPEC CPU2006 as of January 9, 2018. No further result submissions are being accepted and technical support has ended.
ResultsSubmitted Results Search across all SPEC CPU® 2006 results in SPEC's online result database. InformationBenchmark Press Releases
Benchmark Documentation Benchmark Descriptions
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