GEEKBENCH 7 ARRIVES WITH TOUGHER TESTS

The new version maintains the interface of Geekbench 6 but introduces substantial changes under the hood. The benchmark includes expanded datasets for CPU and GPU testing, making workloads more demanding and reflective of real-world usage patterns. Geekbench 7 adds dedicated video and audio encoding/decoding tests, extending beyond traditional compute benchmarks to measure how devices handle multimedia tasks. These additions aim to provide a more comprehensive picture of system performance across diverse workloads. The release comes as manufacturers continue pushing processor performance across mobile and desktop segments. Updated benchmarks help establish clearer performance baselines as new chip architectures emerge, giving consumers and reviewers standardized metrics for comparison. Geekbench remains one of the industry's most widely referenced benchmarking tools, with results frequently cited in device reviews and performance analyses.