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.1 Levels and Types of Benchmarks: Specweb96 GPC
.1 Levels and Types of Benchmarks: Specweb96 GPC
Based on the levels of performance they measure, benchmarks can be grouped into two
levels:
Component-level Benchmarks
System-level Benchmarks
Synthetic Benchmarks
Application Benchmarks
When evaluating the results from synthetic benchmarks, the following rules should be
followed:
Most application benchmarks are system-level benchmarks, and they measure the overall
performance of a system. When an application benchmark is run, it tests the contribution
of each component of the system to the overall performance. These benchmarks are usually
larger and difficult to execute and are not useful for measuring future needs.
The major drawback is that application benchmarks are subject to the benchmark
developer's interpretation of a "typical workload". Examples of application benchmarks
include: