
After nearly a decade, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, or SPEC, is releasing a new version of its widely-published SPEC CPU benchmark. SPEC CPU 2026, as you probably expect, modernizes the workloads included in the suite and adds even more benchmarks, more than doubling the codebase of SPEC CPU 2017. Critically, however, the suite was also designed with portability in mind, and can run on everything from a Raspberry Pi and a Windows-on-ARM laptop up to the fleets of servers the benchmark is designed for.
