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Why focus on the Geekbench test? I thought the industry standard for CPU testing was Cinebench and AIDA64.
by jason0597 5y ago
Why focus on the Geekbench test? I thought the industry standard for CPU testing was Cinebench and AIDA64.
- upbeat_general 5y agoI don’t know about AIDA64, but Geekbench tests a variety of more real world or at least more varied scenarios compared to cinebench which just does CPU rendering. You can see the full description here (https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench5-cpu-workloads.pdf https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench5-cpu-workloads.pdf) but there’s compression, encryption, compiling, and several other tests.
- jason0597 5y agoTaking for example encryption, isn't it an unfair workload? Encryption is hardware accelerated nowadays, which means you won't get an apples-to-apples (heh) comparison of processors and computers.
- upbeat_general 5y agoYes. I’m not sure exactly how geekbench implements it but that’s certainly a big downside. Perhaps geekbench runs it without any hardware acceleration (to just test a different type of workload) but it might just use whatever hardware available. As an end-user I’m okay with that, because at the end of the day if things run faster I don’t really care how, especially for tasks that are ubiquitous.