Geekbench 7 launches with AV1, Opus codec tests
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- Primate Labs released Geekbench 7 with new AV1 and Opus video/audio encoding and decoding tests plus larger, more demanding CPU and GPU datasets aimed at reflecting modern application loads.
- Geekbench 7's new audio and video workloads model video conferencing, streaming, and content consumption tasks that weren't represented in Geekbench 6.
- The redesigned Geekbench 7 multi-core test now runs multi-threaded only when the modeled real-world task would actually use multiple threads, better mirroring how software behaves on real hardware.
- A Geekbench 7 Pro license costs $99 ($79 through August 6) and adds offline benchmarking that is not uploaded to the public Geekbench Browser; coverage extends across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- Geekbench 7 scores are not comparable to Geekbench 6 results, meaning years of accumulated benchmark comparisons are effectively obsolete and reviewers must re-run their suites from scratch.
- The Verge notes that even with bigger datasets, Geekbench tests still complete in only a few minutes, making the suite better suited to measuring burst performance than sustained thermal-throttled loads.
Why it matters: Tech reviewers and hardware buyers now face a hard break: every Geekbench 6 score in existing reviews, comparison charts, and buying guides is invalidated, and tens of thousands of phones, laptops, and desktops must be re-tested on Geekbench 7 before fresh comparisons can be trusted.
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