Geekbench 6.7 adds Intel BOT detection, flags optimized runs as invalid
Primate Labs has released Geekbench 6.7, and the main change for PC users is Intel BOT detection . The company says the new version can detect whether Intel’s Binary Optimization Tool is enabled on the current system.
This follows two earlier developments that we already covered. Primate Labs said Geekbench Browser would place a warning on results from BOT-capable CPUs because it had no direct way to tell whether BOT was active. A week later, the company said Geekbench 6.7 would add that detection system, allowing it to separate normal runs from BOT-optimized runs. These results will be flagged as invalid.
BOT gives ~5.5% higher results
Primate Labs has been openly critical of Intel BOT since late March. In its own testing on a Panther Lake laptop, the company said Geekbench 6.3 scores increased by 5.5% with BOT enabled, while some workload scores rose by up to 30%. It also said BOT appeared to identify compatible Geekbench binaries through a checksum check, which helped explain why newer builds such as 6.7 were not showing the same uplift.
On Android, it now reports the SoC manufacturer and model instead of a generic architecture string. On RISC-V, it now shows CPU names instead of long ISA strings, and it also fixes multi-threaded hangs on Linux ARM preview builds.
Geekbench 6.7 changes
- Add Intel BOT Detection . Geekbench 6.7 can detect whether Intel BOT is enabled on the current system. When detected, benchmark results will be flagged as invalid on the Geekbench Browser. This detection code is part of our work to ensure Geekbench results are comparable across systems and across platforms.
- Improve SoC identification on Android . Geekbench 6.7 now reports the SoC manufacturer and model names (e.g., QTI SM8850) instead of the SoC architecture (e.g., ARM ARMv8).
- Improve CPU identification on RISC-V . Geekbench now reports the CPU name rather than the (sometimes incredibly long) RISC-V ISA string.
- Improve stability on Linux ARM systems . Geekbench 6.7 fixes hangs that could occur in the multi-threaded workloads on Linux ARM systems.
Source: Geekbench
