New server-focused SPEC CPU 2026 benchmarking suite has results for a Raspberry Pi 5 — updated tools feature more tests and can run a wide range of systems

SPEC has released CPU 2026, its first major CPU benchmark update in nearly a decade.

The new suite adds 52 tests and more than doubles the codebase of SPEC CPU 2017.

It is designed to run across a wide range of hardware, including Raspberry Pi 5-class devices.

SPEC says the benchmark emphasizes deterministic, portable user-space workloads for more reproducible comparisons.

The release aims to make modern CPU performance testing more useful from small ARM systems to servers.