Geekbench 6 Announced With Practical Real-World Applications and Tests

The popular mobile benchmarking app, Geekbench has a new version that better reflects the modern-day smartphone's workloads and CPU performance. Dubbed Geekbench 6, the app is suited to test modern-day ARM-powered devices.

Explaining the need for updating the app, Primate Labs, which develops the Geekbench app, said that workloads are now heavier since smartphones and computers have gotten faster, and thus previous methods of measuring performance have become outdated.

The new version brings heavier workloads like bigger photos and files for testing performance. It also includes updated CPU and Compute workloads modeled on real-world applications.

Geekbench 6: What's New?

The updated Geekbench 6 benchmarking app, aimed at modern-day smartphones and laptops, is now out for public use. The app, available on app stores and from its official website, measures a device's single-core and multi-core performance, testing them on various real-world applications such as email, clicking pictures, playing music, and more. The CPU benchmark in Geekbench 6 measures performance in new areas like Augmented Reality and Machine Learning.

The Compute benchmark in the app measures the devices' capacity for gaming, image processing, and video editing. The new version adds support for Vulkan graphics, the next-generation cross-platform graphics API.

The developer behind the app said that the new Geekbench 6 is designed to be more practical than previous versions and focuses on everyday tasks and datasets to spit out a comparable score across devices. Each test is based on tasks modeled around real-world applications and realistic data sets, throwing relevant and relatable results.

The new app can now work cross-platform. This means that scores from the benchmarking app are comparable across iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux, giving users a holistic idea of where a particular device stands in terms of performance.

The app can be downloaded for free for non-commercial use from app stores across platforms. It succeeds the Geekbench 5, which has been the longstanding testing tool to measure CPU performance for reviewers and testers worldwide.

Through a complicated formula that accounts the various performance parameters and real-world scenarios, the Geekbench tool gives out a score for single-core and multi-core performance and compute tasks, which is measurable across devices.