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Primate Labs Launches Geekbench 7 with AI, GPU Tests

7/24/2026

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Primate Labs launched Geekbench 7 on July 23 2026 as its benchmark.
The multi-core test runs workloads in multi-threaded mode only when the task does so in real use.
The GPU benchmark adds machine-learning and content-creation tests and supports Nvidia CUDA alongside OpenCL, Vulkan and Metal.
Geekbench 7 adds AV1 screen-sharing and Whisper speech-recognition, sells Pro license for $99 (discounted to $79 through Aug 6), and yields scores incompatible with Geekbench 6.

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Primate Labs launched Geekbench 7 on July 23 2026 as its benchmark.
The multi-core test runs workloads in multi-threaded mode only when the task does so in real use.
The GPU benchmark adds machine-learning and content-creation tests and supports Nvidia CUDA alongside OpenCL, Vulkan and Metal.
Geekbench 7 adds AV1 screen-sharing and Whisper speech-recognition, sells Pro license for $99 (discounted to $79 through Aug 6), and yields scores incompatible with Geekbench 6.