Want to be the benchmark?
Free stuff is great, and free stuff is actually more useful. Geekbench is one such, a free benchmarking tool that allows you to test the performance of almost any device you own, from your PS3 to your mobile phone to your main computer. Geekbench was created by John Poole after being disappointed with the performance of his shiny new Power Mac G5, and even more disappointing because the benchmarks he ran showed it performed better than it actually did.
As it turns out, he was right. This disappointment has led to the birth of free benchmarking tools for the masses. Originally designed for the Mac, it wasn’t long before Linux, smartphones, and just about everything else were benchmarked on his Geekbench. This long history of testing offers the great advantage of being a huge database of all the tests you and others have done, giving you the ability to compare scores against similar hardware combinations.
The new Geekbench 6 changes the way we test multi-core systems, forcing the system to share tasks between cores to better replicate how the CPU actually handles workloads, resulting in more accurate provide results. It also incorporates some built in Geekbench ML to provide a way to test how your hardware handles machine learning tasks. You may also notice that some benchmarks have been renamed to more accurately describe what they are testing.
Visit Ars Technica to learn more about what the new version of Geekbench can and can’t do, as well as the history of the benchmark.
