Primate Labs released Geekbench 7, a free cross‑platform benchmark update, with a Pro version available at a 20% discount until August 6.

The update adds workloads intended to better represent and measure the performance of modern CPUs and GPUs on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Primate Labs said the multi‑core benchmark now mirrors real‑world application threading behavior, excluding the HTML5 browser test from the multi‑core suite and running the test only when the modeled application uses multiple threads.

New media workloads evaluate video call encoding, Opus audio compression, and live caption generation via OpenAI’s Whisper model, aiming to reflect tasks such as video conferencing and media streaming.

A Game Physics benchmark based on the Jolt Physics engine measures CPU performance in physics‑heavy gaming scenarios, while the Photo Editor workload adds more complex editing operations and supports newer image formats including JPEG XL and DNG.

The GPU benchmark has been expanded to include AI and content‑creation tasks, measuring face tracking, AI upscaling, background blur during video calls, RAW image processing, LUT‑based video color grading, path tracing, and fluid simulation.

Support for Nvidia’s CUDA API has been added alongside OpenCL, Vulkan, and Metal.

Dataset updates incorporate larger and more complex files, such as archives containing source code, object code, and text documents, as well as a wider range of PDF files, to better reflect current workload sizes.

The update is intended to provide a more realistic indication of overall system performance for developers and users.