< 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 benchmark s 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)