From PC World: A popular benchmark tool, Geekbench, says it will issue a warning when Intel’s new “Arrow Lake Refresh” desktop chips enable Intel’s new IBOT feature. Why? Because the benchmark vendor can’t be sure that scores reported with it can be considered trustworthy.
Intel’s new Core Ultra 200S Plus desktop processors (also known as the Arrow Lake Refresh generation) aren’t too different than their 2024 “Arrow Lake” predecessors. But one of the key additions is the Intel Binary Optimization Tool (IBOT), which rearranges code in certain applications for more efficient execution, improving performance. IBOT can also run on the Core Ultra Series 3 chips (aka “Panther Lake”).
The problem is, IBOT isn’t well documented… and Geekbench’s developer, Primate Labs, issued a short blog post warning as much.
Essentially, if you test your Core Ultra 200S Plus PC or processor using the Geekbench tool, it will issue a warning as a “hopefully temporary” workaround: “This benchmark result may be invalid due to binary modification tools that can run on this system.”
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