Geekbench, one of the simplest-to-run benchmarks that works across different computing platforms, is getting an update. Primate Labs is shipping Geekbench 6 for Windows, Linux, macOS and Android, which it says will address the ways people use their computers and phones in real life.
The new version is designed to focus on machine learning workflows and to address how processors with "big" and "little" cores share workloads. On the machine learning side, that means that Geekbench will "better take advantage of your GPU," as those jobs rarely just use the CPU.
"New frameworks and abstraction layers for our benchmark also mean more accurate cross-platform comparisons for these measurements across device types and environments, with support for more ML acceleration instructions, as well as more uniform GPU performance across platforms," Primate Labs' press release reads.
For multi-core benchmarking, the tests will be able to quantify the way that cores share tasks in "true-to-life workload examples." Previously, Geekbench added together the performance of each core. It also features larger images, to simulate what you might actually take with your phone's camera.
Additionally, the new Geekbench will include a bunch of new tests. Here's the list from Primate Labs:
- Background blur, as during video conferences
- Photo filters, similar to those used by modern social media apps
- Object detection for AI workloads
- Photo library for importing and semantic tagging photos and metadata
- Text processing for parsing and converting things like markdown and regex in Python (more true to real developer use cases)
Geekbench 6 on Windows 11
Geekbench 6 on macOS
