Fish gotta swim and geeks have to benchmark, and now they can do it on a wider range of old and new Macs, including Sandy Bridge models. And, of course, OS X 10.7 Lion compatibility is baked into this update, as well.

Those top o’ the food chain software simians at Primate Labs have pushed out fresh updates of their platform leading benchmarking tool. Geekbench 2.2.2 (Mac App Store, $9.99) comes to market and it’s got the goods vis-a-vis Apple’s new Macs and operating system:

• Added support for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
• Added support for Intel Sandy Bridge processors
• Added support for Mid 2011 iMac
• Improved support for Mid 2007 MacBook, Late 2009 Mac mini
• Fixed crash that occurred when activating Geekbench w/ no open documents

That said, Primate Labs webpage also lists Geekbench 2.2 (release notes) as being released today. Bifurcation — it’s funner on the Mac App Store.

Geekbench requires a Mac running OS X 10.5 or higher and at least 512MB RAM. Primate Labs offers a feature-limited demo and you can buy the real deal from Mac App Store.