Geekbench to hide unreleased hardware results, goodbye to leaks

Primate Labs, the developer of Geekbench performance analysis software, has decided to stop showing results for hardware that has not yet been released. This means that there will be no more Geekbench scores from Alder Lake for example and all future CPU architectures such as Raptor Lake and Zen 4.

The change in policy is posted on the Geekbench website and says:

“Primate Labs will prevent test results with hardware not yet released on Geekbench. Pre-release hardware includes Engineering Samples (ES), Samples (QS) and hardware not yet available for sale, ”the message states.

The ES and QS chips are pre-production silicon that AMD and Intel provide to OEM systems companies, software vendors, and sometimes reviewers. The features and clock speeds are not always indicative for the final design.

This will be a bit of a game changer for users who have been searching and getting noticed with the leaks. Up to this point, Geekbench has been a gold mine for this kind of thing. Not anymore, at least not directly. Indirectly, there is nothing to stop the benchmark from starting with those ES and QS chips, and the difference is that the results will no longer be displayed on the website.

For now, we can only trust the leakers and their word when they post scores on Twitter or anywhere else they choose.

In addition to CPUs, Geekbench has also been a leaker of graphics cards and hardware for unreleased smartphones. In the future, they will presumably also disappear from the site.