Primate Labs has introduced Geekbench 6, an up to date model of its standard cross-platform benchmarking app.
According to the rising energy of recent telephones and computer systems, the corporate has up to date the exams it makes use of within the benchmark to place extra stress on these gadgets’ chipsets.
This consists of processing bigger photograph file sizes, bigger maps for navigation exams, and larger PDF samples, plus new exams reminiscent of video name background blur, photograph filters, and AI object detection.
Right here at Tech Advisor, we’ve been utilizing Geekbench apps for a few years to place a literal quantity on the processing energy of each smartphone that we evaluate.
We’ve lately reviewed some telephones outfitted with the brand new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, such because the Samsung Galaxy S23 Extremely and the OnePlus 11. Quickly we’ll publish our verdict on the Vivo X90 Professional with its MediaTek Dimensity 9200.
We run Geekbench on all these telephones, however the acquainted multi-core rating that we speak about in each cellphone evaluate is derived in another way in model 6.
“Relatively than including collectively the efficiency of every core in order that benchmarks scale linearly with an elevated core depend, our exams measure how cores truly share workloads in true-to-life workload examples,” the corporate mentioned in a press launch.
To see the distinction, we ran each Geekbench 5 and 6 on the Samsung Galaxy S23 Extremely. In model 5, it scored 4996 for multi-core, however that turned 5118 in model 6.
It’s essential to match solely like with like, so you may’t take a Geekbench 5 rating and evaluate it to 1 from Geekbench 6.
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It’s hoped that the brand new exams higher replicate the types of duties folks recurrently do on their telephones, tablets, and computer systems to raised characterize the true energy of a person system.
Since September 2019 we’ve been utilizing Geekbench 5 CPU benchmark to report the (normally) four-digit rating for every system that we then cross reference with gadgets with comparable specs or worth to see which is technically strongest.
Artificial benchmarks don’t inform the entire image of a cellphone’s processing energy, however they’re actually a superb information. And hey, it’s enjoyable in the event you’re as nerdy as we’re right here at Tech Advisor.
Geekbench 6 is free to obtain from as we speak for private use for Android and iOS although you need to pay for the Mac, Home windows, and Linux variations.
There’s additionally a Professional model accessible with extra options which, at launch, is on sale at $79 – 20% off its standard worth of $99.
We will’t wait to see how the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 telephones of the longer term rating on the brand new app.