Version History

Novabench 5

• Adds local comparison tool to easily see the difference between test results
• Improves sensor compatibility with new processor models
• Fixes sensor results on macOS Sonoma
• Minor updates and improvements

• Adds CPU stress test utility
• Adds sensor (temperature/power/battery) command to CLI
• Minor updates and improvements

• This release is for Windows only
• Fixes an issue with sensor logging showing an error message on some systems

• Add custom names and notes to your results
• Improves storage test compatibility
• Updates documentation

• Adds CPU and GPU efficiency metrics to test results
• Adds new System Info page

• This update focuses on increasing the accuracy and reliability of the benchmark results, based on your valuable feedback
• Fixes an issue with specific GPU/driver combinations, where the compute test could terminate early, resulting in an incomplete GPU score
• Improves the sequential read/write accuracy of the storage test for specific NVMe devices
• Users with impacted configurations may notice a slight increase in GPU or Storage scores with this version

• Adds temperature, power, and usage logs and charts
• Adds battery health logs and charts
• Adds online temperature comparison
• Small bug fixes and improvements

• Further improves GPU compatibility
• Fixes issues searching for certain CPUs in the database

• Adds Advisor, a new way to understand your benchmark results
• Improves online comparison tools
• Improves hardware detection and compatibility
• Fixes stalled tests on some system configurations
• Various bug fixes and improvements - thank you for your feedback!

• Ongoing improvements to hardware compatibility, including improvements to GPU measurement
• We appreciate your feedback, please reach out if you're experiencing any issues
• On Windows versions before 5.0.5, if Novabench 4 was already installed, its start menu icon may have been removed while installing Novabench 5. v4 remains installed alongside v5, and can be accessed from the Program Files folder.

• Completely rebuilt and redesigned
• Score calculation has changed to better reflect performance of newer hardware. Direct comparison to Novabench 4 scores may not be meaningful.
• CPU test updates:
• Updates to SIMD and scalar test instruction sets
• New compression and cryptography tests
• GPU test updates:
• New 3D test scene
• New Vulkan-based compute test. Falls back to OpenCL if Vulkan is not available.
• New GPU memory transfer tests
• Storage test updates:
• Improve accuracy of sequential read/write tests on newer storage devices
• New random-access read/write tests
• Memory test updates:
• New memory access latency test
• Improved hardware temperature sensor compatibility
• Sensors are recorded during testing (Plus)
• Added Bottleneck test
• CLI now supports all commands possible from GUI

Prior versions