Primate Labs releases Geekbench 7 with AI, CUDA benchmarks

Primate Labs has released Geekbench 7, a major update to its widely used cross-platform benchmarking software. The new version, available as of July 23, 2026, for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android, introduces a redesigned testing methodology and new workloads aimed at better reflecting the demands of modern computing, including artificial intelligence, media processing, and content creation.

A core change in Geekbench 7 is a fundamental revision to how it measures multicore CPU performance. The benchmark now only includes a workload in its multithreaded test suite if the real-world application it models is itself highly multithreaded. For example, the HTML5 Browser test has been excluded from the multicore benchmark because web browsers are typically dependent on single-threaded performance. The developer states this approach prevents a distorted view of performance and should make the multicore score more representative of how everyday software utilizes a processor.

The update introduces a suite of new media workloads that model contemporary tasks. These include encoding screen-sharing video with the AV1 codec, compressing audio with the Opus codec, and a combined test...