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
- 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
- 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