Primate Labs releases Geekbench 7, featuring larger, more demanding datasets for CPUs and GPUs, along with new video and audio encoding/decoding tests, and more
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Geekbench 7 pushing larger, more media-heavy workloads into its suite is a quiet acknowledgment that AI-era client devices are bottlenecked on real-world encode/decode and mixed CPU/GPU paths. If you ship hardware or performance-sensitive apps, align your internal benchmarks with these profiles or your lab numbers will drift from user reality.
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