Primate Labs, the company behind Geekbench, has announced that it will be attaching a warning to benchmark results produced by Intel's new Arrow Lake Plus CPUs. The benchmark specialist says that Intel's new BOT tool, which only runs on the freshly-launched chips, as well as Panther Lake parts, "can boost Geekbench 6 scores by up to 8%, but those results aren't comparable with standard runs."
Primate Labs actually says that individual workloads can be improved by as much as 40%. As for a justification for the move, the company says: "Since the tool modifies the benchmark, and it is unclear to both Primate Labs and the general public how these changes occur, results generated with the tool are not comparable to results generated without it."
