Primate Labs has announced on its blog that it has released Geekbench 3 – the first major update to the popular benchmarking service since 2007. This third iteration of Geekbench features 15 completely new benchmark tests that are designed to mimic real-world processor tasks, such as image and signal processing, encryption, and physics simulation that aim to give a more accurate score of the processing power of computers and mobile devices. The previous benchmark tests imported from Geekbench 2 have also been completely rewritten so that they are now more representative of real-world applications and usage scenarios, again allowing for a more accurate score. Geekbench 3 features a completely new scoring system whereby users now receive separa
