Geekbench AI
After months of beta testing, the newly renamed Geekbench AI 1.0 is now available with the aim of giving users the ability to make comparable measurements of artificial intelligence performance across iOSmacOS and more.
Originally released in beta form under the name Geekbench ML — for Machine Learning — in December 2023the tool allowed comparisons between the Mac and the iPhone. Now, as Geekbench AI, the creators claim to have radically improved the app's ability to usefully measure and assess performance.
“With the 1.0 release, we believe Geekbench Al has reached a level of reliability and trustworthiness that allows developers to confidently integrate it into their workflows,” the company wrote in a blog post.[and] “A lot of big names like Samsung and Nvidia are already using it.”
Running Geekbench AI on a Mac mini
Regular Geekbench has long given separate scores for single-core and multi-core device performance. In the case of Geekbench AI, it measures against three different types of workloads.
“Geekbench AI presents a summary of a series of workload tests performed on single-precision data, half-precision data, and quantized data,” the company continues. “These tests cover a range of applications that developers use to address both precision and purpose in AI systems.”
The company emphasizes that its intention is to produce comparable measurements that reflect the use of AI in the real world, however broad that may be.
Geekbench AI 1.0 is available directly from the developer. As with previous Geekbench releases, the tool is free for most users and runs on macOSiOS, Android and Windows.
There is a paid version called Geekbench AI Pro. This allows developers to keep their scores private instead of automatically uploading them to a public site.