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Geekbench 7 Launches with New Benchmarks for Modern Workloads

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Hacker News ·

Primate Labs released Geekbench 7, a major update to its cross-platform benchmarking tool. It adds new tests for AI inference, ray tracing, and browser performance, and revamps the scoring system. The update aims to better reflect real-world usage on CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs.

Meridian48 take
While Geekbench remains a popular synthetic benchmark, its relevance depends on how well the new workloads mirror actual user tasks—something past versions have struggled with.
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