3DMark vs Geekbench AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
3DMark
Benchmark your iOS device to measure and compare its graphics performance. Test the latest iPhones and iPads with various demanding game-like scenes, including ray tracing, to understand real-world gaming capabilities and track performance changes over time.
- GPU performance testing
- Ray tracing benchmarks
- Gaming workload simulations
- Cross-platform comparisons
- Stress testing for sustained performance
- Device performance rankings
- Performance change tracking
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Test and compare the performance of the latest iPhones and iPads with this free and easy-to-use benchmarking app. 3DMark Solar Bay Extreme is a ray-traced gaming benchmark, designed to test the graphics performance of high-end iPhones and iPads. 3DMark Steel Nomad Light is our heaviest non-raytracing benchmark for iOS. Steel Nomad Light lets you compare the performance of the latest iPhones and iPads in heavy gaming workloads. Run 3DMark Solar Bay to compare the latest iOS devices that support gaming with real-time ray tracing. Ray tracing is a new technology in games that is used to produce far more realistic lighting. It has three sections with increasingly higher ray tracing workloads, helping you understand how enabling ray tracing will affect your device’s gaming performance. 3DMark Wild Life is a cross-platform benchmarking app for comparing the performance of the latest smartphones and tablets. Use 3DMark Wild Life Extreme to test and compare the latest iPhones and iPads as well as Apple Mac computers with the M1 chip. Or run the original Wild Life benchmark to test older iPhone and iPad models. 3DMark Steel Nomad Light, Solar Bay, Wild Life, and Wild Life Extreme offer two ways to test your device: a quick benchmark that tests instant performance and a longer stress test that shows how your device performs under longer periods of heavy load. 3DMark benchmarks measure GPU performance by rendering a demanding game-like scene in real-time. The faster the scene runs, the higher your benchmark score. With its charts, lists and rankings, 3DMark gives you unique insights into the performance of your device. - Measure the GPU performance of your iPhone and iPad. - Compare your score with others from the same model. - See how your device compares with the latest models. - See how performance changes with each iOS update. - Search, filter and sort the in-app rankings to compare popular devices. 3DMark is a free app. There are no ads or in-app purchases. Download it today and join millions of people who choose 3DMark for accurate and impartial benchmark results. This app is for non-commercial use only. - Business users, contact UL.BenchmarkSales@ul.com for licensing. - Members of the press, please contact UL.BenchmarkPress@ul.com.
Geekbench AI
Measure the machine learning capabilities of your Apple device. It includes tests for vision and language tasks, evaluating the performance of your CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine.
- Machine learning performance tests
- Vision and language tasks
- CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine evaluation
- iPhone, iPad, and iPod support
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Find out how fast your iPhone, iPad, or iPod can perform machine learning tasks with Geekbench AI. Geekbench AI includes both vision and language tests that model real-world machine learning tasks and applications. The tests measure the machine learning performance of your device's CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: 3DMark at 15.0 against Geekbench AI's 17.0. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for 3DMark against 4.2 for Geekbench AI. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 73 and 33 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 53% of 3DMark's written reviews are positive against 55% of Geekbench AI's.
3DMark ships an update every 2 months, Geekbench AI every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 3DMark | Geekbench AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (73 ratings) | 4.2 (33 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.7% of reviews | 54.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 73 — better | 33 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2.0 GB | 476 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Underwriters Laboratories Inc. | Primate Labs Inc. |
Customer experience
3DMark
Geekbench AI
In-app purchases
3DMark
No in-app purchases
Geekbench AI
No in-app purchases
