Primate Labs has just released Geekbench 6, a new version of its popular benchmarking app. The new version includes new tests and new datasets to better measure performance. The new tests include background blur, akin to the tech used during video conferences; photo filters, similar to those used by modern social media apps; and object detection for AI workloads. The new datasets include higher-resolution photos to align with those captured by the best phones of today (12 to 48MP), and bigger and more modern PDF examples.
One big change for Geekbench 6 compared to Geekbench 5 and other versions is in the way that multi-core scores are calculated. Previously multiple individual tasks were created and measured to see how quickly they would complete. The more cores you had the quicker they would complete. However, in Geekbench 6, one workload is used and all the cores work together on that one shared objective. It is still true that the more cores you have, the quicker it will complete. However, there is now interaction between the cores.