Primate Labs releases Geekbench 6.4
Benchmarking tool Geekbench has been updated to version 6.4, seeing added support for RISC-V Vector Extensions and Arm Scalable Matrix Extensions.
Geekbench is a highly-used benchmark tool, providing quick ways to compare the performance between similar-specification devices. On Tuesday, the app was updated by Primate Labs to version 6.4.
The update introduces support for RISC-V Vector Extensions, boosting the performance of workloads that leverage SIMD instructions when run on RISC-V CPUs that implement RVV.
It also improves support for ARM Scalable Matrix Extensions (SME). In Geekbench 6.3, SME support required CPUs to implement both SME and SME2 instructions. With Geekbench 6.4, SME support now requires CPUs to either implement SME instructions or implement SME and SME2 instructions, which improves compatibility and performance for upcoming CPU releases.
Geekbench 6.4 now also reports the instruction set extensions detected and utilized during the CPU Benchmark. These reports offer valuable insights into the instruction sets Geekbench employs during performance measurement.
CPU technology is also improved, notably enhancing detection on Linux systems with ARM and RISC-V processors.
While Geekbench says Geekbench 6.4 scores are comparable with Geekbench 6.3 scores, it still recommends that anyone using Geekbench 6 update to the latest version. Geekbench is available for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS/iPadOS and Android.
