What's new in NovaBench 5.5.1
Mar 25, 2024
- Fixes an issue where the storage score may be negative in rare cases
- Minor polish and improvements throughout
New in NovaBench 5.5.0 (Mar 21, 2024)
- Novabench 5.5 is our most significant v5 update yet. It includes a brand-new test report, making it easier to understand if your computer is performing as it should.
- The test report expands the online comparison toolset by integrating a comprehensive pass/warn/fail checklist for a more detailed system performance analysis.
- Adds Test Report with Pass/Warn/Fail checklist: Quickly evaluate key performance aspects of your system:
- System Rank: Comparative percentile ranking of your system against all tested systems.
- CPU Performance: Assessment of CPU score, clock speed, temperature, and power consumption.
- GPU Performance: Evaluation of GPU score, potential bottlenecks, frame stuttering, temperature, and power consumption.
New in NovaBench 5.4.4 (Feb 23, 2024)
- This is a bug fix release to address minor user experience issues reported by some users.
New in NovaBench 5.4.3 (Feb 5, 2024)
- Improves detection of GPUs in certain configurations
- Improves account sign-in
- Minor bug fixes and polish
New in NovaBench 5.4.2 (Jan 27, 2024)
- Improves display of online results database and part information for easier comparison
- Minor bug fixes and improvements
New in NovaBench 5.4.1 (Dec 11, 2023)
- UI improvements throughout
- Improved scheduled test and sensor logging config on Mac & Linux
- Fixes sensor readings on macOS 14.1.1+
New in NovaBench 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
New in NovaBench 5.3.0 (Jul 31, 2023)
- Adds CPU stress test utility
- Adds sensor (temperature/power/battery) command to CLI
- Minor updates and improvements
New in NovaBench 5.2.4 (May 27, 2023)
- Fixes an issue with sensor logging showing an error message on some systems
New in NovaBench 5.2.3 (May 15, 2023)
- Add custom names and notes to your results
- Improves storage test compatibility
- Updates documentation
New in NovaBench 5.2.2 (May 8, 2023)
- Adds CPU and GPU efficiency metrics to test results
- Adds new System Info page
New in NovaBench 5.2.1 (May 7, 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
New in NovaBench 5.2.0 (Apr 24, 2023)
- Adds temperature, power, and usage logs and charts
- Adds battery health logs and charts
- Adds online temperature comparison
- Small bug fixes and improvements
New in NovaBench 5.1.1 (Apr 6, 2023)
- Further improves GPU compatibility
- Fixes issues searching for certain CPUs in the database
New in NovaBench 5.0.5 (Feb 20, 2023)
- Ongoing improvements to hardware compatibility
- 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.
New in NovaBench 5.0.0 (Feb 3, 2023)
- Completely redesigned and rebuiltVersion 4.0.9 (10/01/2021)
- Fixed issue submitting scores to Novabench.com
New in NovaBench 4.0.9 (Jan 12, 2021)
- Fixed issue submitting scores to
New in NovaBench 4.0.8 (Sep 1, 2020)
- Minor bug fixes and improvements
New in NovaBench 4.0.7 (Jul 22, 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
New in NovaBench 4.0.6 (Oct 7, 2018)
- Fixed service error on some Windows locales
- Added custom test name to CSV/Excel exports (Pro)
- Bug fixes and improvements
New in NovaBench 4.0.5 (May 28, 2018)
- Improved Pro charts performance
- Improved GPU detection on some systems
- Bug fixes and improvements
New in NovaBench 4.0.4 (Apr 2, 2018)
- Added temperature support for new CPUs
- Improved OpenCL test compatibility
- Security issue in installer addressed by upstream vendor
- Bug fixes and improvements
New in NovaBench 4.0.3 (Nov 8, 2017)
- Fixed installer error on some configurations
- Improved battery compatibility (Pro)
New in NovaBench 4.0.2 (Nov 3, 2017)
- Added Battery Wear History feature (Pro)
- Added GPU Compute to CLI (Pro)
- Bug fixes and improvements
New in NovaBench 4.0.1 (Sep 1, 2017)
- Bug fixes and improvements
New in NovaBench 4.0.0 (Aug 29, 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
New in NovaBench 3.0.4 (Aug 29, 2017)
- Score submissions are now done over SSL
- Improved clock speed accuracy in some cases
New in NovaBench 3.0.3 (Aug 29, 2017)
- Changed branding from Novatech Network to Novawave Inc.
- Fixed possible overflow bug
New in NovaBench 3.0.2 (Aug 29, 2017)
- Fixed graphics asset extraction bug
- Fixed various minor bugs
- Uninstaller is now code signed
New in NovaBench 3.0.1 (Aug 29, 2017)
- Fixed score submission error experienced on some systems
- Fixed Aero glass disabling on some systems
New in NovaBench 3.0 (Aug 29, 2017)
- 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