Geekbench 2.4.4

Released 2016-02-11

Geekbench 2.4.4 contains an important security fix for OS X and is recommended for all OS X users.

• Changed to secure connections to download update information and release notes.

Geekbench 2.4.3

Released 2013-04-12

• Added support for sharing benchmark results with other applications on BlackBerry 10.
• Improved interface layout on BlackBerry 10.
• Improved processor model detection on BlackBerry 10.
• Fixed a bug where system information was invisible on the BlackBerry Q10.
• Fixed a bug where stress test output did not appear on the command line.
• Fixed a bug where Geekbench misreported the processor frequency on BlackBerry 10.
• Fixed a bug where Geekbench didn't prevent the screen from sleep when running benchmarks on BlackBerry 10.
• Fixed a bug that could cause uploads to fail when using a proxy.
• Fixed a bug that could cause uploads to fail on older hardware.

Geekbench 2.4.2

Released 2013-03-07

• Ported Geekbench to BlackBerry 10.
• Added "Export License File" to Geekbench 2 Pro.
• Added support for iMac (Late 2012).
• Added support for MacBook Pro (Retina Early 2013).
• Added a comparison chart to the benchmark results on Android.
• Added support for sharing benchmark results with other applications on Android.
• Fixed a bug where Geekbench misidentified Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processors.
• Fixed a bug that could cause unwanted characters to appear in messages.
• Worked around an issue that could cause Geekbench to underreport performance on Android 4.0.0 through 4.0.3.

Geekbench 2.4.0

Released 2012-11-15

• Added support for Mac mini (Late 2012).
• Added support for iPad (4th generation), iPad mini, and iPod touch (5th generation).
• Added support for Nexus 4 and Nexus 10.
• Added progress view to track benchmark progress on Android.
• Added localizations on Android and iOS.
• Removed the need to run Geekbench as root in order to gather accurate system information under Linux.
• Improved support for Windows 8.
• Improved support for Windows systems with more than 64 cores.
• Improved support for systems with less than 512MB of memory.
• Fixed a bug that misidentified the international iPhone 5.
• Fixed a bug that caused benchmarks to cancel when the device was rotated on Android.
• Disabled the idle timer that could cause the screen to sleep during benchmarks on iOS.
• Refreshed results view design.

Geekbench 2.3.4

Released 2012-07-10

• Added support for Mountain Lion and Gatekeeper.
• Added support for Retina Display.
• Added 'geekbench' tool to Geekbench for Linux.
• Added support for Intel-based Android devices.
• Improved support for Windows systems with more than 32 cores.
• Improved results display on iPhone, iPod touch, and Android.
• Improved handset and processor detection on Android.
• Fixed spurious high-resolution timer errors on older Windows systems.

Geekbench 2.3.3

Released 2012-06-12

• Renamed MacBook Pro (Retina) to match Apple's naming convention.

Geekbench 2.3.2

Released 2012-06-12

• Added support for MacBook Air (Mid 2012).
• Added support for MacBook Pro (Mid 2012).
• Added preliminary support for MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Display).

Geekbench 2.3.1

Released 2012-04-12

• Fixed "ordinal 344 could not be located" error on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 R2.

Geekbench 2.3.0

Released 2012-04-10

• Removed support for PowerPC-based Macs.
• Removed offline result management from tryout mode.
• Added portable installs for Pro licenses.
• Added support for Ivy Bridge processors.
• Improved support for MacBook Pro (17-inch Mid 2009).
• Improved "internal timer error" diagnostic message.

Geekbench 2.2.7

Released 2012-02-20

• Fixed an unhandled exception on OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion).
• Fixed a bug that prevented "Check for Updates..." from working properly.
• Fixed a bug that misidentified the iPhone 4 (CDMA).
• Improved processor frequency detection on Windows.
• Improved processor detection on Linux.

Geekbench 2.2.6

Released 2012-01-19

• Fixed a hang that could occur when running benchmarks on Windows.
• Fixed a bug that canceled benchmarks prematurely on Android.
• Fixed a bug that misidentified some late model MacBook Pros.
• Re-enabled multi-threaded tests on single-core systems.
• Improved compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
• Improved upload error messages on Windows and Linux.
• Improved handling of corrupted Geekbench files.

Geekbench 2.2.5

Released 2012-01-15

• Fixed a startup crash that occurred on Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich).

Geekbench 2.2.4

Released 2012-01-14

• Initial Android release.

Geekbench 2.2.3

Released 2011-11-02.

• Removed support for Mac OS X 10.4.
• Added support for the the MacBook Pro (Late 2011).
• Added support for the iPhone 4S.
• Improved performance on systems with less than 512MB of RAM.
• Improved processor detection on Linux.
• Improved compatibility with older Linux distributions.
• Fixed divide-by-zero errors that occurred on Windows XP 64-Bit Edition.
• Fixed floating-point exceptions that occurred on Debian Wheezy.
• Fixed a deadlock that could occur when running benchmarks on Mac OS X and Windows.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Mac App Store version to overreport performance.
• Fixed a bug that could prevent uploading results to the Geekbench Browser.
• Fixed processor core counts on computers with more than 64 cores.

Geekbench 2.2.0

Released 2011-08-31.

• Moved 32-bit and 64-bit benchmarks into the same user interface.
• Added a new hardware stress test.
• Added a new command-line tool for Mac OS X and Windows.
• Added new "Export As..." commands.
• Added a new document-based interface on Windows.
• Added new hardware information on Windows (processor socket, processor codename, northbridge, and southbridge)
• Added automatic updates on Mac OS X.
• Added support for the latest Macs.
• Added support for the latest AMD and Intel processors.
• Redesigned Geekbench result presentation.
• Improved hardware detection on Linux and Windows.
• Fixed a bug that caused some Geekbench workloads to misreport performance on 8-core systems.
• Fixed processor cache detection bugs on late-model AMD and Intel processors.
• Fixed a startup crash that could occur on Lion.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when loading saved Geekbench files.
• Fixed processor core counts for late-model AMD processors.
• Fixed processor core counts for hyper-threaded processors under Linux.
• Fixed a bug that could cause Geekbench results to render incorrectly.
• Fixed registration bugs some users encountered when registering.
• Fixed thread affinity bugs on multi-socket systems.
• Fixed several race conditions in multi-threaded workloads.

Geekbench 2.1.13

Released 2011-03-12.

• Added support for MacBook Pro (Early 2011).
• Fixed conflicts with Geekbench from the Mac App Store.

Geekbench 2.1.12

Released 2011-02-11.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when loading corrupted results.
• Improved plain text result display.

Geekbench 2.1.11

Released 2011-01-02.

• Fixed registration issues some users encountered when registering.

Geekbench 2.1.10

Released 2010-11-10.

• Fixed registration issues some users encountered when registering.

Geekbench 2.1.9

Released 2010-11-01.

• Added support for the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models.

Geekbench 2.1.8

Released 2010-10-09.

• Fixed a bug in processor identification on x86-based systems.

Geekbench 2.1.7

• Fixed a problem that prevented Geekbench from scaling beyond 32 cores.
• Added support for Mac mini (Early 2010).
• Added support for iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010) and iMac (27-inch Mid 2010).
• Added support for Mac Pro (Mid 2010).

Geekbench 2.1.6

Released 2010-04-22.

• Added Linux distribution reporting.
• Added support for MacBook Pros (Early 2010).
• Updated support for iMac (27-inch Late 2009).
• Fixed a crash that occured on launch under Mac OS X 10.4.11.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when submitting results under Mac OS X.
• Fixed processor and core counts on Intel Core 2 Quad and Core i7 processors.
• Fixed Solaris processor detection.

Geekbench 2.1.5

Released 2010-03-19.

• Added support for Windows Server 2008 R2.
• Added support for iMac (Late 2009).
• Re-introduced support for Solaris 10.
• Added the command-line version of Geekbench to Geekbench for Windows.
• Corrected core and thread count for AMD processors.
• Fixed a crash under VMWare Fusion 3 with Windows 7 as the guest OS.
• Fixed an abnormal exit under Windows Server 2008 R2 running recent Intel processors.
• Fixed a bug where early-model PowerPC Macs were marked as Hackintoshes.

Geekbench 2.1.4

Released 2009-08-20.

• Fixed a crash on Macs running Mac OS X 10.4.11.

Geekbench 2.1.3

Released 2009-08-03.

• Added support for MacBook Pro (Mid 2009).
• Added support for the latest AMD and Intel processors.
• Added experimental support for Windows 7.

Geekbench 2.1.2

Released 2009-02-27

• Added support for MacBook (Early 2009) and MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2009).
• Fixed a bug where PowerPC 64-bit results were flagged as invalid.
• Fixed a bug where “threads” and “cores” labels were swapped in the results view.

Geekbench 2.1.1

Released 2009-02-03.

• Added support for MacBook (Late 2008), MacBook Air (Late 2008) and MacBook Pro (Late 2008).
• Added support for Intel Core i7 and AMD Phenom II processors.
• Added the distinction between processor cores and processor threads.
• Updated benchmark result user interface.
• Fixed core/thread counting bugs for Intel Core i7 processors.
• Fixed a startup crash that occurred under Vista's diagnostic mode.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when running Geekbench for Windows under Wine.
• Fixed a bug that exaggerated benchmark performance under Geekbench for Windows (64-bit version).

Geekbench 2.1.0

Released 2008-12-18.

• Redesigned benchmark result view.
• Redesigned Geekbench Browser.
• Added offline result submission.
• Improved accuracy under virtual machines.
• Improved timer code to handle software-overclocked systems.

Geekbench 2.0.19

Released 2008-09-03

• Fixed a number of processor detection bugs.

Geekbench 2.0.18

Released 2008-07-16.

• Built with Xcode 3.1.
• Added support for the latest Core 2 and Phenom processors.

Geekbench 2.0.17

Released 2008-05-27.

• Improved support for iMac (Early 2008).

Geekbench 2.0.16

Released 2008-04-30.

• Added preliminary support for iMac (Early 2008).
• Added better handling of corrupt SMBIOS strings
• Added the ability to save results on Windows
• Fixed timeout errors that could occur when submitting results to the Geekbench Browser.
• Improved support for machines running 32-bit operating systems with more than 4GB of RAM.

Geekbench 2.0.15

Released 2008-04-09.

• Improved support for the MacBook Air.
• Improved support for Pentium 4 5xx and 6xx processors.

Geekbench 2.0.14

Released 2008-03-17.

• Updated Mac OS X motherboard detection.
• Updated x86 processor detection.
• Added system BIOS detection.

Geekbench 2.0.13

Released 2008-03-10.

• Added support for the MacBook (Early 2008) and the MacBook Pro (Early 2008).
• Added x86 processor database.
• Improved logical/physical processor count detection.
• Improved Hackintosh detection.

Geekbench 2.0.12

Released 2008-02-19.

• Fixed a couple of 64-bit crashes that affected both Leopard and Vista.

Geekbench 2.0.11

Released 2008-02-04.

• Added support for the MacBook Air and the Xserve (Early 2008).
• Fixed performance problems on PowerPC-based Macs.
• Fixed a crash on PowerPC-based systems running Mac OS X 10.4.10.

Geekbench 2.0.10

Released 2008-01-23.

• Added support for Mac Pro (Early 2008).

Geekbench 2.0.9

Released 2007-12-20.

• Added high-resolution icons for Leopard and Vista.
• Added an installation program for Windows version.
• Fixed several system information bugs.

Geekbench 2.0.8

Released 2007-11-06.

• Adds support for the latest MacBook and MacBook Pro.
• Now built with Xcode 3.0 GM.

Geekbench 2.0.7

Released 2007-10-22.

• Added 64-bit benchmarks for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

Geekbench 2.0.6

Released 2007-08-29.

• Added system information support for new iMacs and Mac minis.

Geekbench 2.0.5

Released 2007-07-09.

• Numerous system information bug fixes.

Geekbench 2.0.4

Released 2007-07-03.

• Improved hardware detection under Rosetta
• New result submission UI
• New result format selection (default or plain text)
• Added latest Apple hardware (MacBook Pro (Mid 2007))
• Various minor bug fixes

Geekbench 2.0.3

Released 2007-05-30.

• A number of system information bug fixes.
• Added Geekbench for Linux.

Geekbench 2.0.2

Released 2007-04-12.

• Updated model list that includes the latest Apple hardware (Xserve (Late 2006) and Mac Pro (8-core))
• Bug fixes for users running AMD-based systems

Geekbench 2.0.1

Released 2007-03-22.

• Added Geekbench for Rosetta which lets Intel-based Mac users measure Rosetta performance
• Various minor bug fixes

Geekbench 2.0.0

Released 2007-03-06.

• Initial release