Analyzing Geekbench 6 under Intel's BOT (geekbench.com)

Intel’s Binary Optimization Tool (BOT) can rewrite instruction sequences in selected executables, and Geekbench 6 is one of the few supported apps. In testing on a Panther Lake laptop, BOT raised Geekbench 6.3 scores by about 5.5% (with a larger gain for certain workloads up to ~30%) but had little effect on Geekbench 6.7. The blog attributes most of the HDR workload improvement to BOT vectorizing code, and notes BOT adds a short startup delay and can reduce cross-CPU comparability by producing processor-tuned binaries rather than typical execution.