BAPCo consortium
BAPCo, Business Applications Performance Corporation, is a non-profit consortium (founded in 1991) with a charter to develop and distribute a set of objective performance benchmarks for personal computers based on popular software applications and operating systems.
As of 2024, BAPCo's current membership includes Acer, ARCIntuition, Compal, Dell, Dynabook, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Intel, Inventec, LC Future Center, Lenovo, Pegatron, Quanta Computer, Samsung, Western Digital and Wistron, among others.[1]
Products
Benchmarks from BAPCo include:
- APPmark 2018
- MobileMark 25
- SYSmark 2018
- SYSmark 25
- CrossMark
Controversy
BAPco has suffered criticism for bias in its benchmarking products. It was found in 2002 that Intel was the sole contributor to a series of CPU tests, tests which heavily favoured their own CPUs vs competitors, where the tests of the year before performed significantly better on non-Intel parts.[2] In 2011, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Nividia left BAPCo with AMD claiming that the SYSmark benchmark was biased toward Intel.[3] Intel was investigated by the FTC, and eventually fined for this action, among other anti-competitive measures.[4]
See also
- Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
- Benchmark (computing)
- Futuremark
References
- ^ "About BAPCo". BAPCo.com. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ "AMD: Chip test was altered to favor Intel". CNET. 2002-08-30. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
- ^ Crothers, Brooke (June 23, 2011). "AMD quits benchmark group, implying Intel bias". CNET. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ Smith, Ryan. "Intel Settles With the FTC". Retrieved 2018-10-10.
External links
- BAPCo.com
- BAPCo - Results Dashboard
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- Free software
- Proprietary software
- Performance per watt
- Data center infrastructure efficiency
- Giga-updates per second (memory)
- CPU power dissipation
- BAPCo consortium
- EEMBC
- Futuremark
- Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)
- Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC)
Floating-point unit (FLOPS) |
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Integer (ALU) | |
Digital signal processor (DSP) |
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Graphics processing unit (GPU) | |
Parallel computing |
Network |
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Filesystems and storage | |
Computer memory |
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Input/output |
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- Hierarchical INTegration (HINT)
- NBench (CPU, memory)
- Average CPU power (x86)
- EEMBC (embedded systems)
- Data center infrastructure efficiency
- SPECpower (Java software)
- Server Efficiency Rating Tool (SERT)
JavaScript engine | |
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Cryptography | |
Multiuser system | |
Virtual machine | |
Physics engine | |
Recursion performance |
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Database transactions | |
Web server benchmarking | |
X Window System |
- Adjusted Peak Performance (Nuclear weapon simulation)
- AnTuTu (ARM)
- BogoMips (Linux)
- Coremark (embedded systems)
- iCOMP (index) (Intel)
- Novabench (Windows and macOS)
- Phoronix Test Suite (Linux)
- Performance Rating (AMD)
- Sysinfo & SysSpeed (Motorola 68k)
- WorldBench (Windows)