Geekbench 7 is out with overhauled performance tests for CPU and GPU workloads

Key Points:

• Primate Labs has launched Geekbench 7, a benchmarking tool designed to better reflect real-world device usage across everyday tasks, gaming, and AI workloads, with new and improved CPU and GPU performance tests.
• The updated GPU benchmark emphasizes machine learning and content creation, including workloads like real-time face tracking with filters, image upscaling, video conferencing background blurring, and new image editing and synthesis tasks.
• Geekbench 7 introduces support for Nvidia’s CUDA API alongside OpenCL, Vulkan, and Metal, and refines multi-core testing by only running multi-threaded workloads when typical for the task, improving test relevance.
• New media performance tests measure CPU handling of audio and video encoding/decoding with modern codecs like AV1 and Opus, as well as live caption generation using the Whisper speech recognition model.
• The benchmark expands its data sets for file compression, PDF viewing, developer tasks, and image processing to include a wider variety of file types and formats, enhancing test comprehensiveness; a 20% discount on Geekbench 7 Pro is available through August 6.