Primal Labs today announced Geekbench 6, a new version of their popular benchmark. Phones and computers are getting faster, according to the company, so previous methods of measuring improvement are rapidly becoming obsolete.
Changes include larger photos, a larger image library for importing tests, and larger and more modern PDF examples. The app is now heavier across all platforms as it comes with some new tests such as background blur during video calls, photo filters for social media, and object detection for AI workloads.
The new Geekbench 6 significantly de-focuses single-core CPU testing. Primal Labs says that the number of main cores no longer matters as much as power is extracted from different parts of the hardware in real world use cases. Machine learning is also on the rise, with better results on multi-core CPUs.
The end result is more than just adding the performance of four different cores. This test measures how the cores “share real workloads with real-world workload examples.” The world of mobile tech has had a mix of large and small cores for quite some time, but now desktops and laptops have caught up with the practice and his old Geekbench has become unreliable.
Geek Bench 6 • Geek Bench 5
The app also improves GPU computation with new frameworks and abstraction layers. Primal Labs has integrated more ML acceleration instructions and uniform GPU performance across platforms, resulting in more accurate cross-platform comparisons.
Geekbench 6 apps are available for Android, Linux, Mac, and Windows. It remains free for non-commercial use and is coming soon to Google Play.
