Today we’re learning about the release of the latest version of Primate Labs’ cross-platform benchmark: Geekbench 7. It includes new and improved workloads for measuring the performance of your processors and graphics cards. Geekbench 7 is available for download today for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux. As a reminder, we’ve already been using the three previous versions in our processor tests.
Geekbench 7 introduces a new category of multimedia tests that simulate video conferencing, streaming, and content consumption—activities that are central to how today’s systems are used. The new tests include scenarios that encode screen-sharing videos for video conferencing using the AV1 codec, compress voice memos and podcasts using the Opus audio codec, and decode videos and generate automatic captions using Whisper speech recognition.
Primate Labs has also updated the datasets processed by the workloads to better reflect the requirements of modern applications. This includes more archives and compression formats in the file compression test, more PDF files of varying complexity in the PDF test, more image formats (including JPEG-XL and DNG) in the photo library test, and a wider variety of more realistic edits in the photo editing test.
The multi-core benchmark has been redesigned: rather than running each workload with all available threads, Geekbench 7 only runs a workload in multithreaded mode if the task it models runs multithreaded in real-world applications. This approach produces multi-core scores that better reflect how real-world software takes advantage of your processor’s different cores.
To celebrate the launch of Geekbench 7, Primate Labs is offering a 20% discount on Geekbench 7 Pro licenses from now through August 6. Geekbench 7 is free (and will remain free) for personal use.
