Primate Labs has released Geekbench 3 today with new tools for iOS, OS X, Windows, and Android. This marks the first major upgrade for Geekbench in six years.
The update introduces new benchmark tests modeled after current processor-intensive tasks and covering encryption, image processing, physics simulations, and signal processing. Geekbench 3 also features 12 completely rewritten benchmark tests from the previous edition of the program. These tests have been updated to better reflect usage scenarios of real world applications.
To analyze all this information, a reworked scoring system has been added, breaking single-core and mulit-core performance out into two separate categories. Sadly this means that Geekbench 3 scores are no longer comparable to Geekbench 2 score
