Geekbench News and Articles

Geekbench 7 debuts with a smarter multi-core benchmark and CUDA support

Geekbench 7 overhauls the benchmarking suite with a redesigned multi-core benchmark built around real-world application behavior, refreshed CPU and GPU workloads (AV1 encoding, ML upscaling, path tracing, etc), CUDA support for Nvidia GPUs, and larger datasets for more demanding performance testing. The new release also establishes AMD's Ryzen 7 7700 as its scoring baseline.

By Ivan Franco, July 23, 2026, 6:41 PM

Hardware

Dell Pro Precision leak reveals early Panther Lake CPU and Xe3 iGPU performance

Panther Lake laptop iGPU outperforms Radeon 840M

By Daniel Sims, December 4, 2025, 7:48 AM

Hardware Mobile

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite looks good in early CPU benchmarks, but Apple holds GPU crown

Latest Snapdragon SoC edges past Apple M4 Pro in some synthetic tests, but M5 looms

By Daniel Sims, October 1, 2025, 8:22 AM 8 comments

Hardware Electronics

Intel Core Ultra 7 365K leaks ahead of Arrow Lake Refresh launch

The benchmarks are very similar to Core Ultra 7 265K

By Daniel Sims, September 4, 2025, 10:16 AM 35 comments

Hardware AI

Nvidia N1X AI PC chip leaks with the same number of CUDA cores as an RTX 5070

Tipped to launch in 2026

By Kishalaya Kundu, July 28, 2025, 1:02 PM

Microsoft Software

Microsoft says Windows 11 is 2x faster, except they used ancient PCs to benchmark Windows 10

Breaking news: Older hardware is slower than newer hardware

By Rob Thubron, June 29, 2025, 9:36 AM 37 comments

Gaming Hardware

Intel Battlemage desktop GPU hits Geekbench with 12GB of VRAM, 2,850 MHz boost

No GPU currently on the market boosts to 2.8GHz

By Daniel Sims, September 26, 2024, 7:17 PM 34 comments

Hardware Gaming

AMD Radeon RX 8000 'RDNA 4' graphics card spotted with Navi 48 GPU and 16GB memory

The RDNA 4 cards are coming next year

By Kishalaya Kundu, August 26, 2024, 10:22 AM 22 comments

Download of the Week

Geekbench launches new AI benchmark to measure CPU, GPU, and NPU performance

Geekbench AI uses real-world machine learning tasks to evaluate AI workload performance on your CPU, GPU, or NPU usage. It provides three scores: full-precision, half-precision, and quantized data.

By Ivan Franco, August 16, 2024, 2:30 PM

Hardware

Intel is prepping a new dual-core CPU with surprisingly decent performance

The chip could be part of the Raptor Lake family

By Kishalaya Kundu, July 12, 2024, 12:20 PM 10 comments

Hardware

Snapdragon X Elite is faster than Intel and AMD flagship CPUs in Geekbench

Laptops powered by the Snapdragon X Elite are coming later this year

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 3, 2024, 9:12 AM 15 comments

Hardware

Intel Xeon W9-3595X Geekbench listing reveals 60 cores, 120 threads and 4.6GHz base clock

The Xeon W9-3595X is expected to be the flagship Sapphire Rapids chip

By Kishalaya Kundu, January 31, 2024, 11:56 AM

Hardware

Intel Core Ultra 9 and non-K Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs show up on Geekbench

An early look at Meteor Lake and the last LGA 1700 chips

By Daniel Sims, October 18, 2023, 6:13 AM

Hardware

Intel Core i7-14700KF reaches almost 6 GHz in leaked benchmark

The same as the Core i9-14900K

By Rob Thubron, September 28, 2023, 7:13 AM 8 comments

Hardware Apple

Apple A17 Pro SoC single-core benchmark score close to the Intel i9-13900K and AMD 7950X

The power of 3nm

By Rob Thubron, September 15, 2023, 6:15 AM 39 comments

Hardware

Intel Core i9-14900KF appears on Geekbench, nearly reaching 6GHz

Official reveal expected to come next week

By Daniel Sims, September 14, 2023, 4:34 PM 12 comments

Hardware

Intel Core i9-14900K tops Geekbench with record-breaking single-core performance

What just happened? More details about Intel's 14th-generation Raptor Lake Refresh chips have landed ahead of the processors' expected launch next month. The latest leaks involve the flagship Core i9-14900K, which has received the highest single-core score in Geekbench. It's also shown up in a CPU-Z benchmark that shows the chip scoring 8% - 10% higher than its predecessor, the Core i9-13900K.

Full story By Rob Thubron, September 5, 2023, 9:46 AM 11 comments

Hardware

Geekbench and CPU-Z leaks indicate slight clock boost and good performance increase for Core i5-14600K

i7-14700K also makes an appearance

By Daniel Sims, August 9, 2023, 6:17 PM 12 comments

Hardware Gaming

RTX 4060 Ti Geekbench entry confirms 4352 CUDA cores with 8GB of RAM, possibly for $399

Nvidia could also sell the 16GB version for $500

By Daniel Sims, May 17, 2023, 4:13 PM 18 comments

Hardware

AMD Radeon 7800 XT emerges in Geekbench, possibly hinting at imminent unveiling

Benchmark score is likely not indicative of final performance, more RDNA3 GPUs are coming

By Daniel Sims, May 3, 2023, 5:56 PM 15 comments

Hardware Gaming

Nvidia RTX 4070 Geekbench listing confirms 5,888 CUDA cores and 12GB memory

The RTX 4070 is expected to launch next week

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 5, 2023, 7:31 AM

Software Download of the Week

Geekbench 6 features new real-world benchmark tests

Geekbench 6 features among numerous other improvements a new multi-core benchmark that measures how cores cooperate to complete a shared task in modern processors with "performance" and "efficient" cores.

By Ivan Franco, February 14, 2023, 4:30 PM

21 Programs to Analyze and Benchmark Your Hardware

FEATURE By Nick Evanson, January 26, 2023, 12:18 PM TechSpot Software

You've just bought a new gaming PC or a laptop for the office. Maybe you just upgraded your PC. You might be into overclocking. But do you know exactly what you've got? How well is that PC actually working? We've compiled a list of 21 programs that are great for analyzing and benchmarking your devices.

Hardware

Geekbench was tricked: the Ryzen 7 7800X doesn't exist

WTF?! For the last few days, the computer hardware microcosm of the internet has been awash with theories about an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X that appeared in the Geekbench database on October 27. It hadn't been seen, heard, or rumored anywhere beforehand, which is almost unprecedented. Had AMD really made a 10-core Zen 4 CPU without anyone knowing?

Full story By Isaiah Mayersen, October 29, 2022, 10:39 AM 7 comments

Apple

iPhone 14 Pro Geekbench results highlight modest A16 Bionic performance gains

Moore's law applies to mobile processors as well

By Shawn Knight, September 8, 2022, 11:00 AM