How to run Geekbench on your phone or PC
by Monica Chin from The Verge - All Posts on (#5XK1N)
For the next few weeks, we're showing you how to run various commonly used benchmarks on your PC. Reviewers like myself find these very helpful in comparing laptops we test to each other. But you don't have to rely on us - you can easily run these benchmarks yourself on your own PC. Geekbench is one of the easiest and fastest ones to run and will show you how your device stacks up against the competition in a few key areas.
Within Geekbench 5 (the latest release), there are a few different tests you can run. Geekbench CPU measures your processor's performance, simulating both single-core and multi-core usage scenarios. When the test is complete, you'll get both a single-core and a multi-core score. Geekbench Compute, by contrast, e...