GPU Compute tests have all been updated, too. Other tests are new, like calculating directions using OpenStreetMap data and a set of new Machine Learning and Augmented Reality related tests. Memory performance is still important to achieving high Geekbench scores, as the larger workloads require more memory access.Īll the tests have changed: Tests that existed in Geekbench 4, like AES encryption and image compression, have been updated with new algorithms and larger workloads. Geekbench 5 drops those tests, increasing the impact of integer performance tests on the score. Together they accounted for 20 percent of the Geekbench 4 score. There are no more individual memory tests: Geekbench 4 had memory copy, memory latency, and memory bandwidth tests. This allows Geekbench 5 to use more strenuous tests with larger workloads that put more emphasis on memory performance. It’s 64-bit only: Support for 32-bit CPUs and operating systems is gone. Geekbench 4 scores are much higher than Geekbench 5 scores on the same hardware. You can expect the same hardware to produce a score 75 to 80 percent lower on Geekbench 5. Geekbench 5 uses a Dell Precision 3430 with a Core i3-8100 processor as its baseline, with a score of 1,000 points. There’s a new scale: Geekbench 4 used a Microsoft Surface Book with an Intel Core i7-6600U processor as its baseline, with a score of 4,000 points. Here’s what you should know about this latest version. Since we so frequently discuss Geekbench performance results (as in our forward-looking Apple A13 preview), we should reveal a little detail about some of the changes in Geekbench 5. It’s one of the few cross-device and cross-operating-system comparable benchmarks available while it doesn’t paint a perfect picture of the difference in performance between an Intel chip running Windows, an Android phone with a Qualcomm processor, and an iPad with Apple’s custom silicon, it is one of the best synthetic benchmarks available to at least attempt to make such a comparison. We often use Geekbench here at Macworld to give an overall picture of the CPU and GPU compute performance of iPhones, iPads, and Macs. As such, it should be a much more accurate representation of modern workloads on modern hardware, and the scores are not at all comparable with those from Geekbench 4. Geekbench 5 comes three years after the release of Geekbench 4 and features all new test methods, workloads, and a new measurement scale. Primate Labs has release a major new update of its popular Geekbench performance measurement tool.

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