Geekbench will no longer share benchmarks of hardware that is not yet for sale

The Geekbench Browser will no longer display benchmark results from ‘pre-release’ hardware. As far as we know, the tool can still be used to benchmark new hardware, but these results will no longer be visible to everyone.

Parent company Primate Labs does not explain why the pre-release hardware will no longer be seen in the Geekbench Browser. Pre-release hardware includes engineering samples, qualification samples and retail hardware that is not yet for sale. There is no date on the message. The first notification in the Wayback Machine is from Tuesday, Twitter user Benchleaks seems to have seen the message first.

In the past, results from Geekbench have revealed the specifications of unannounced hardware such as processors. Such result pages not only showed product names and benchmarks, but often also specific specifications. Examples of leaked hardware are the Intel Core i9-11950H CPU, an Intel Alder Lake-P processor and the hardware of the Fairphone 4 5G.