SPEC News
Below, ordered by time with the most recent items first, are listings of all of SPEC’s announcements through the years covering all our products and services and their updates.
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SPECviewperf® 2020 Benchmark V3.0 Linux Edition Released
2022-03-03 SPECgpc® released a Linux Edition of its SPECviewperf® 2020 v3.0 performance benchmark, the worldwide standard for measuring graphics performance based on professional applications. The SPECviewperf 2020 v3.0 Linux Edition benchmark enables hardware and software vendors and consumers to measure the 3D graphics performance of systems running under the OpenGL application programming interface.
Archived SPEC News Items
Collected older news items prior to 2022.
Archived SPEC News Items December 10, 2021: The IEEE Micro Special Issue on the Microprocessor at 50 includes an article by SPEC's John Henning, "How Many VAXes Fit in the Palms of Your Hands?" The article, and a companion video, use the original SPECmark benchmark to show relative performance on a modern system vs. a system from the 1970s.
December 9, 2021: The SPECgpc® project group has released the SPECviewperf® 2020 v3.