Introduction

Version History

Novabench 5

Version 5.4.0 (Oct. 2, 2023)
  • 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
Version 5.3.0 (Jul. 30, 2023)
  • Adds CPU stress test utility
  • Adds sensor (temperature/power/battery) command to CLI
  • Minor updates and improvements
Version 5.2.4 (May 27, 2023)
  • This release is for Windows only
  • Fixes an issue with sensor logging showing an error message on some systems
Version 5.2.3 (May 14, 2023)
  • Add custom names and notes to your results
  • Improves storage test compatibility
  • Updates documentation
Version 5.2.2 (May 8, 2023)
  • Adds CPU and GPU efficiency metrics to test results
  • Adds new System Info page
Version 5.2.1 (May 6, 2023)
  • 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
Version 5.2.0 (Apr. 23, 2023)
  • Adds temperature, power, and usage logs and charts
  • Adds battery health logs and charts
  • Adds online temperature comparison
  • Small bug fixes and improvements
Version 5.1.1 (Apr. 6, 2023)
  • Further improves GPU compatibility
  • Fixes issues searching for certain CPUs in the database
Version 5.1.0 (Mar. 29, 2023)
  • 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!
Version 5.0.1-5.0.6 (Feb. 2023)
  • 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.
Version 5.0.0 (Feb. 3, 2023)
  • 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

Version 4.0.9 (10/01/2021)
- Fixed issue submitting scores to Novabench.com

Version 4.0.8 (01/09/2020)
- Minor bug fixes and improvements

Version 4.0.7 (21/07/2020)
- Added temperature support for new processors
- Improved hardware detection on some systems
- Improved graphics test stability on some devices
- Improved Pro charts performance
- Minor bug fixes and improvements

Version 4.0.6 (06/10/2018)
- Fixed service error on some Windows locales
- Added custom test name to CSV/Excel exports (Pro)
- Bug fixes and improvements

Version 4.0.5 (27/05/2018)
- Improved Pro charts performance
- Improved GPU detection on some systems
- Bug fixes and improvements

Version 4.0.4 (01/04/2018)
- Added temperature support for new CPUs
- Improved OpenCL test compatibility
- Security issue in installer addressed by upstream vendor ()
- Bug fixes and improvements

Version 4.0.3 (06/11/2017)
- Fixed installer error on some configurations
- Improved battery compatibility (Pro)

Version 4.0.2 (02/11/2017)
- Added Battery Wear History feature (Pro)
- Added GPU Compute to CLI (Pro)
- Bug fixes and improvements

Version 4.0.1 (05/09/2017)
- Bug fixes and improvements

Version 4.0.0 (28/08/2017)
- Redesigned interface
- CPU tests updated for new processor features
- New Direct3D 11 graphics test
- New OpenCL GPU compute test
- New disk read speed test
- Score comparison site improved
- New .NBR file format
- New Pro features

Version 3.0.4 (27/07/2011)
- Score submissions are now done over SSL
- Improved clock speed accuracy in some cases

Version 3.0.3 (29/03/2011)
- Fixed possible overflow bug

Version 3.0.2 (11/12/2010)
- Fixed graphics asset extraction bug
- Fixed various minor bugs
- Uninstaller is now code signed

Version 3.0.1 (28/06/2010)
- Fixed score submission error experienced on some systems
- Fixed Aero glass disabling on some systems

Version 3.0 (25/05/2010)
- All tests rewritten for cross-platform compatibility
- Added Direct3D 9 and RAM Speed tests
- Interface improvements
- .NBR file structure changed to XML
- Online score database improvements

Version 2.0.1 (25/02/2008)
- Unicode bugfix
- Processor name support improvement

Version 2.0 (17/02/2008)
- Online score submission improvements
- Interface improvements

Version 1.0 (20/02/2007)
- Initial Release

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