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Your Chance To Influence CPU Benchmarking

Posted by timothy on from the how-many-gears-can-you-spin dept.

John Henning writes "When comparing CPUs, is it enough to look at MHz? Of course not; architecture matters, as do caches, memory systems, and compilers. Perhaps the best-known vendor-neutral CPU performance comparison is from SPEC, but SPEC plans to retire its current CPU benchmarks. If you would like to influence the benchmarks that will replace the current set, time is running out: SPEC Search Program entries are due by midnight, June 30."

3 of 48 comments (clear)

  1. the new spec: by Tumbleweed · · Score: 3, Funny

    BogoMIPS! :)

  2. Quake 3 is the best benchmark by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is also platform neutral - if it can't run on that platform then I don't buy it.

  3. But I don't know anything about CPUs... by hkon · · Score: 2, Funny

    wouldn't it be better to have the people who actually make CPUs to decide how...

    oh, wait...

    :-)