These were the first general purpose industry standard computer benchmarks.

SPECfp is a computer benchmark designed to test the floating point performance of a computer.

A variety of computer benchmarks exist to measure sustained memory bandwidth using a variety of access patterns.

Some computer benchmarks measure overall system performance, while others isolate the performance of individual components, like microprocessors, disk drives or graphics cards.

Futuremark Oy is a Finnish software development company, that produces computer benchmark applications for home users and businesses.

A browser speed test is a computer benchmark to measure the performance of the JavaScript engine of a web browser.

PCMark is a computer benchmark tool developed by Futuremark to test the performance of a PC at the system and component level.

SPECint is a computer benchmark specification for CPU's integer processing power.

Being relatively uninformed on computer benchmarks, some of them pick a particular CPU based on operating frequency (see megahertz myth).

IDEAS is the creator of RPE2, a computer benchmark that compares the relative performance of servers.

Founded in 1997 as "Futuremark" by members of the former demoscene group Future Crew, the company is the leading producer of computer benchmark applications in the world.

Hierarchical INTegration, or HINT for short, is a computer benchmark that ranks a computer system as a whole (i.e. the entire computer instead of individual components).

Last week, in preparation for the I.B.M. announcement, Digital officials visited reporters and analysts in an effort to challenge an I.B.M. computer benchmark called RAMP-C.

Richard Murphy from Sandia, says that "The Graph500's goal is to promote awareness of complex data problems", instead of focusing on computer benchmarks like HPL, which Top500 is based on.

RPE2, or Relative server Performance Estimate 2, is a computer benchmark developed by Ideas International to compare the relative performance of servers built on x86, IA-64, and RISC processor architectures.

The recent computer benchmarks, published last month by Jack J. Dongarra, a researcher at Argonne, show that a single processor in the eight-processor Cray Y-MP/832 was able to perform 79 million floating point operations a second, or Mflops.