Siggraph 2025 series: SPEC GWPG—Graphics & Workstation Performance Group

Workstation benchmarking done right.

August 20, 2025

Hernan Quijano

Every power user cares about doing the job, and every good manager cares about empowering their team members with the right tools to succeed, while keeping costs under control. What is the secret to giving each power user the compute they need, and, most importantly, what is the risk of failing to do so? Meet the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), more specifically, the Graphics & Workstation Performance Group (GWPG). I had the pleasure of starting my Siggraph 2025 schedule with the Birds of a Feather session Benchmarking Graphics Performance on Modern Computing Systems, presented by the SPEC GWPG committee. The

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