* Gadgets * News * Tech # Geekbench 7 will push your computer or phone even harder for better benchmarking It looks and acts like Geekbench 6, but under the hood are larger datasets, new audio / video tests, and more tweaks. It looks and acts like Geekbench 6, but under the hood are larger datasets, new audio / video tests, and more tweaks. by Antonio G. Di Benedetto Jul 23, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC Image: Primate Labs [](/authors/antonio-g-di-benedetto) Antonio G. Di Benedetto is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Primate Labs is releasing [Geekbench 7](https://www.geekbench.com/), the latest generation of its popular benchmarking tool. Geekbench 7 features new video and audio encoding / decoding tests, a redesigned multi-core test, and larger, more demanding datasets for CPUs and GPUs to crunch through. It otherwise looks and acts just like Geekbench 6, and a [Pro license](https://www.primatelabs.com/store/v7/) will cost the same $99 (discounted to $79 until August 6th). A Geekbench 7 Pro license allows for offline benchmarking that doesn’t get uploaded to the [Geekbench Browser](https://browser.geekbench.com/), and it still covers all compatible desktop platforms of Windows, macOS, and Linux. [](https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/macOS-Launcher.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0,0,100,100) _Geekbench be looking like Geekbench._ Image: Primate Labs Geekbench is one of the mainstay synthetic benchmarks we use in reviewing laptops here at _The Verge_. I’ve always liked how simple and fast Geekbench is to run, but its short duration also means it’s a better test of quick bursts of computing rather than sustained loads that can throttle some CPUs and GPUs. (One of its tests involves rendering a 1.5MB PDF file, which must be near-instantaneous for most modern chips.) Primate Labs claims Geekbench 7 uses “more demanding data sets to more accurately capture the hardware demands of modern applications.” The new audio / video tests also now include AV1, Opus, model video conferencing, streaming, and content consumption workloads. And multi-core benchmarks are designed to better reflect real software behavior since the new workloads will only run multi-threaded when the modeled tasks run that way. These all sound like marked improvements, even if Geekbench 7 tests still only take a few minutes to run. Scores from Geekbench 6 are of course not compatible with Geekbench 7. So if you’re the testing type, feel free to spiritually join me in a whole bunch of new benchmark testing and retesting. Always be testing. **Follow topics and authors** from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates. * Antonio G. Di Benedetto * Gadgets * Laptops * News * Phones * Tech