Inside the new SPECworkstation 3 benchmark

SPECworkstation 3, an all-new version of the benchmark formerly known as SPECwpc, was released on October 31. It is developed and maintained by the SPEC Workstation Performance Characterization (SPECwpc) group, which includes AMD, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Intel, Lenovo, and NVIDIA. Users can download the benchmark free of charge from the SPEC website. Five years in the making The first version of the SPEC workstation benchmark was introduced five years ago. It was the first benchmark to provide a comprehensive measure of total workstation performance based on professional applications. The benchmark did not require the target applications to be installed on