The popular benchmarking utility Geekbench has launched a new cross-platform tool to evaluate the performance of devices under AI-heavy workloads. Geekbench AI measures a device’s CPU, GPU, and NPU (neural processing unit) to determine how well it can handle machine learning applications.
Geekbench has an AI benchmark now
Now there’s a number to show how well your machine handles AI tasks, even if we’re not completely sure what that means yet.
Now there’s a number to show how well your machine handles AI tasks, even if we’re not completely sure what that means yet.
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Geekbench developer Primate Labs has been working on the software using the name Geekbench ML, which launched in preview in 2021, but shifted the name to AI for reasons that seem obvious. To explore how different hardware responds to different AI-related tasks, it evaluates performance based on both accuracy and speed, with support for different frameworks, including ONNX, CoreML, TensorFlow Lite, and OpenVino.
1/2Here’s the score for an Nvidia RTX 4090 running the ONNX framework test. Screenshot: Tom Warren / The Verge
It delivers three scores: full precision, half precision, and quantized. Primate Labs says the scores also have an accuracy measurement to evaluate how close a workload’s outputs are to the truth, “or how accurately that model can do what it’s supposed to do.”
We’ll need more time with devices running on-device AI such as Copilot Plus PCs and all of the new phones to see how performance in real-world tasks correlates with Geekbench AI’s numbers. Checking frame rates or loading times is one thing — now we might be checking the accuracy of predictive text or what a generative AI-enabled image editor comes up with.
You can download the tool now to try it yourself on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.
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