Geekbench

Geekbench
Developer(s)	Primate Labs Inc.
Stable release	4.2.2 / 15 February 2018
Written in	C++, C, Objective-C, Python, Ruby
Operating system	macOS, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS
Platform	x86-64, ARM
Available in	English
Type	Benchmark (computing)
Website	geekbench.com

Geekbench is a cross-platform processor benchmark, with a scoring system that separates single-core and multi-core performance,^[1]^[2] and workloads that simulate real-world scenarios. The current version, Geekbench 4, uses scores that are calculated against a baseline score of 4000, which represents the performance of an Intel Core i7-6600U @ 2.60 GHz. The software benchmark is available for macOS, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS. Geekbench 4 also measures GPU performance in areas such as image processing and computer vision.

Linus Torvalds, who is the creator and principal developer of the Linux kernel, criticized Geekbench versions 3 and earlier for showing partiality for ARM64 devices and being a bad performance measure of x86-based systems, he called GB as bad a benchmark as Dhrystone, which he and others have ridiculed for years. ^[3] When version 4.0 of Geekbench was released his comment was, "Looks much better."^[4]

References

↑ Marco Cornero, Andreas Anyuru (ST-Ericsson) (2013). Multiprocessing in Mobile Platforms: the Marketing and the Reality (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-08-13.
↑ Prakash P.; Biju R. Mohan (2013). "Evaluating Performance of Virtual Machines on Hypervisor (Type-2)" (PDF). National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, Department of Information Technology. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-08-18.
↑ "Real World Technologies - Forums - Thread Charlie re Apple and ARM". Archived from the original on 2017-04-21.
↑ "Real World Technologies - Forums - Thread: Geekbench 4". www.realworldtech.com. Retrieved 2018-01-05.

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[etn-multiprocessing-1] Marco Cornero, Andreas Anyuru (ST-Ericsson) (2013). Multiprocessing in Mobile Platforms: the Marketing and the Reality (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-08-13.

[prakash-mohan-NIT-2] Prakash P.; Biju R. Mohan (2013). "Evaluating Performance of Virtual Machines on Hypervisor (Type-2)" (PDF). National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, Department of Information Technology. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-08-18.

[3] "Real World Technologies - Forums - Thread Charlie re Apple and ARM". Archived from the original on 2017-04-21.

[4] "Real World Technologies - Forums - Thread: Geekbench 4". www.realworldtech.com. Retrieved 2018-01-05.