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Geekbench 7
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Geekbench 7 features new and improved workloads for measuring CPU and GPU performance, including media workloads for audio and video encoding, decoding, and processing. It is available for download on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux.
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- Praise: The diverse set of benchmarks in Geekbench allows for comparisons across different platforms, which some find valuable for assessing overall performance.
- Praise: Commenters appreciate the sub-scores for different application types in Geekbench, suggesting it provides a broad measure of processor speed.
- Concern: Many find Geekbench's synthetic benchmarks to be borderline useless, arguing that a higher score doesn't translate to real-world performance differences.
- Concern: Critics highlight the poor multi-core scaling in Geekbench 6, which has led to skepticism about its reliability for high-core-count CPUs.
- Concern: There's a strong desire for benchmarks that specifically test AI capabilities, indicating that Geekbench doesn't meet the needs of those focused on AI performance metrics.