The results are interesting, and point to either drastic differences in the way certain tests are calculated between Geekbench versions, or potential flaws in this initial Geekbench 5.0 release. So now that we know that Geekbench 5 results stand alone, we pulled out our two test systems from our initial Ice Lake benchmark article: the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 (7390) and the Lenovo ThinkPad T495. Other differences include modified and alternative tests in some areas, the introduction of Vulkan support for the utility’s GPU-based Compute test (joining OpenCL, CUDA, and Metal for macOS), and, perhaps most significantly, the removal of memory tests so that a system’s memory speed, which can vary depending on the exact configuration, doesn’t affect the fundamental evaluation of the processor itself. This results in overall Geekbench 5 scores being significantly lower than Geekbench 4 and earlier. So not only is the baseline processor newer and faster, the baseline score is much lower, too. Geekbench 5 scores are now calibrated against a baseline score of 1,000 for an Intel Core i3-8100: a four-core, four-thread 65W Coffee Lake part released in September 2017. Geekbench 4 results were calibrated to a baseline score of 4,000 for an Intel Core i7-6600U: a two-core, four-thread 15W Skylake part released in September 2015. Not only has Primate Labs changed the type and method of the various CPU and GPU tests in an effort to more accurately evaluate the latest advancements in hardware and architectures, the entire scoring system has been re-weighted. Like previous major releases of the utility, Geekbench 5 results differ significantly from Geekbench 4 and are not comparable to results from previous versions. Differences Between Geekbench 4 and Geekbench 5
We’ll likely continue to use Geekbench as one of many tests we perform in future hardware reviews, but since the release of Geekbench 5 occurred so soon after the publication of our Ice Lake benchmarks, we decided to do a quick supplemental article to both subject our AMD and Intel test laptops to the latest version of Geekbench as well as compare how it measures performance relative to its predecessor.
GEEKBENCH FOR PC UPDATE
Just hours after we published our initial Ice Lake benchmarks comparing the i7-1065G7 to the Ryzen 7 3700U – benchmarks which included Geekbench 4 results – Primate Labs released Geekbench 5, a major update and reworking of the popular, although sometimes controversial multiplatform benchmarking utility.
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