Friday April 7, 2023; 9:01 AM EDT
- I recently obtained a new PC, the Beelink U59, and to get an idea of how well it performs in comparison to other computers I downloaded and ran Geekbench V6. The Macbook M1 is my highend computer that is magnitudes faster than my work computer and the new Beelink. The Beelink only has an Intel Celeron processor and costs magnitudes less than the Macbook, so this is not a surprise.#
- I've been using Geekbench since Version 4, so you can see the differences in the benchmarking between versions. The compute score for the Macbook M1 increased slightly from Version 5 to 6 (18737 to 20207), but the compute score for my HP EliteBook 745 G6 went down from 8246 to 6531. Regardless of the actual numbers, they support my actual experience that the computer I use most each day for work (the HP) is magnitudes slower than my personal computer. (I wish my employer would provide a VM that I could run on the Macbook, I would probably enjoy that much more than using the HP.)#
- While Geekbench does CPU and Compute benchmarking, I like to do browser performance benchmarking because I mostly use web apps and thus feel these benchmarks might give me a better indication of the performance that I will see. The browser benchmarks provide me some interesting stories. #
- For example, using Chrome on Windows 11, the Beelink U59 browser performance is better than on my work computer that has an Intel I5 processor. What really surprises me is how bad Chrome on the Pixelbook performs, it is worse by a large margin. The other thing I learned is that Chrome is faster than Firebox. #