Primate NDA - monkey sign, monkey blind

This is one of the short ones and also one of the ones where we refer to a non-English source. Now, I did try to find an English source, but I wasn’t able to. So, we’re stuck with a Czech source. Here comes new GeekBench 7!

Okay, I don’t care about pretty much any of this, because modern HW is so ridiculously fast that benching any device is a waste of time. I was looking up the numbers, and my Steam Deck (the original LCD) is roughly as fast as my rig sporting Intel Core i5-3570K (CPU in Steam Deck is approximately 2x faster) and AMD Radeon 7950. All in a portable envelope. This is the rig I was playing Gothic 3 on, now I can do it with a fraction of the power draw. I really don’t care. I want more of good quality games, the fidelity was just fine decades ago at this point and we should have masses of power to drive it, even on phones (!). So, we will completely skip anything related to the benchmarking and leave that to the benchmark minded.

Here’s the bit that I want to cover:

Primate Labs is now releasing GeekBench 7. They did so in a somewhat unusual manner—forcing some editorial teams to sign NDAs, only to ultimately withhold information and simply publish GeekBench 7 on their website. At the time of writing, however, it remains without detailed documentation. While we know how the test structure has changed, we do not know what is actually being tested (i.e., which instruction sets are being utilized).

Wow. This is the ultimate security power move. You make your partner sign an NDA and then you don’t give them any privileged information. I suppose they were making sure the journalists don’t cover leaks. I have no idea, man. If you have an explanation, shoot me an e-mail. Because I’d like to know the logic behind this.

Anyway, we’re done today, catch you next time.