Geekbench says enabling Intel BOT paints an 'unrealistic picture' of CPU performance and makes Intel chips seem faster versus the AMD competition 'than they would be in typical, real-world usage'

Geekbench's Primate Labs says Intel's BOT tool does more than Intel claims — including code vectorization — making Intel CPUs appear faster against AMD than real-world usage would reflect. Geekbench is flagging BOT-enabled results in its database.

Appeared in 2026-04-01.