Geekbench 7 Launches With Redesigned Multi-Core and GPU Benchmarks

Key Points:

• Primate Labs has launched Geekbench 7, the latest version of its benchmarking suite for CPU and GPU performance, featuring a redesigned multi-core benchmark that better reflects real-world application behavior by running tasks in multi-threaded mode only if applicable in actual use.
• The updated GPU benchmark focuses on modern use cases such as machine learning and content creation, including tests for face tracking, real-time video filters, image upscaling, background blurring in video calls, RAW image processing, video color grading, path tracing, and fluid simulation.
• Geekbench 7 continues to support Nvidia's CUDA API alongside OpenCL, Vulkan, and Metal, and incorporates more challenging data sets with increased variation in file compression, PDF viewing, developer, and image processing workloads.
• New media workloads test audio and video encoding, decoding, and processing, simulating real-world scenarios like video conferencing and content consumption with Whisper speech recognition, AV1, and Opus tests.
• Additional features include a Game Physics workload using the Jolt Physics engine, an expanded Photo Editor test with diverse real-world edits, and support for importing and processing advanced image formats such as JPEG XL and DNG in the Photo Library workload.