SPECmark

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
SPECmark

   <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} {benchmarks} 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
   (ftp://ftp.cdf.toronto.edu/pub/spectable).

   See also {SPECint92}, {SPECfp92}, {SPECrate_int92},
   {SPECrate_fp92}.

   (1994-11-15)