The newest version of Geekbench, Geekbench 6, was announced by Primate Labs today and is available to download for Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and Linux. The latest version is a step up from the previous iteration, Geekbench 5, which rolled out in 2019. Apart from introducing new hardware standards, there are improvements to ‘real world’ tests, providing closer-to-reality type performance results for your devices and machines.

New Geekbench 6 changes how it utilizes the GPU, along with other improvements in the multi-core section

As 9to5Mac points out, the new update focuses on the GPU, taking better advantage of this processor while also keeping up with the newest silicon. It is possible we will see varying results with Geekbench 6 since it would have added support for not just Apple Silicon but newer chips from Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, MediaTek, and more.

“Many new software features and performance improvements come to us through the contemporary magic of machine learning, and these tasks don’t just use your CPU. Geekbench 6 has been updated to better take advantage of your GPU for these workflows. New frameworks and abstraction layers for our benchmark also mean more accurate cross-platform comparisons for these measurements across device types and environments, with support for more ML acceleration instructions, as well as more uniform GPU performance across platforms.”

One of the biggest changes arriving to Geekbench 6 is providing ‘true to life’ results rather than simulating synthetic workloads. In multi-core tests, the extra cores will now behave closer to how they do when performing a real-world task, providing a better representation of performance figures. With more and more CPU architectures adopting ‘performance’ and ‘energy efficiency’ cores, the latest update should recognize these architectures and provide comparable scores.

“We’ve also overhauled how our multi-core benchmarking scores work. Rather than adding together the performance of each core so that benchmarks scale linearly with an increased core count, our tests measure how cores actually share workloads in true-to-life workload examples.”

If you want to get started immediately with benchmarking your system, you can download Geekbench 6 from here. Also, provide the results that you obtained on your smartphone, laptop, or desktop on the newer version. You can also watch the video uploaded by Gary Sims above as he speaks to the creator of Geekbench and how this version differs from the previous one.