diff --git a/ports/benchmark/portfile.cmake b/ports/benchmark/portfile.cmake
index 8e8cef3142..c0391f7e1f 100644
--- a/ports/benchmark/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/benchmark/portfile.cmake
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ vcpkg_check_linkage(ONLY_STATIC_LIBRARY)
 vcpkg_from_github(
     OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
     REPO google/benchmark
-    REF v1.7.1
-    SHA512 396af1c1d3eaa2b78c6d23b1472f6088db85a294056ae1c2366dc5c0becdc8f141ba8fc3a235033324ab0a41c2298f5d242ef09b9b6f69d9877de6bcb2062efd
-    HEAD_REF master
+    REF v1.8.0
+    SHA512 ae8df163ca1319752a03497a259800dc33c71164e7def2feeadcf18d018c64eaf846ea2a562183e3d3cde0af58291de0b091ec6d9c025076f469c403b2ab0d51
+    HEAD_REF main
 )
 
 vcpkg_cmake_configure(
diff --git a/ports/benchmark/vcpkg.json b/ports/benchmark/vcpkg.json
index 279c2663da..2cc12d063a 100644
--- a/ports/benchmark/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/benchmark/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "$comment": "https://github.com/google/benchmark/issues/661 describes the missing UWP support upstream",
   "name": "benchmark",
-  "version-semver": "1.7.1",
+  "version-semver": "1.8.0",
   "description": "A library to support the benchmarking of functions, similar to unit-tests.",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/google/benchmark",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
diff --git a/versions/b-/benchmark.json b/versions/b-/benchmark.json
index 61e53ffd23..a398f90189 100644
--- a/versions/b-/benchmark.json
+++ b/versions/b-/benchmark.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "faeb0b56e68483860ab8cc468a6c594ac361167f",
+      "version-semver": "1.8.0",
+      "port-version": 0
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "2b8e34d5f083c7c674469078f5e80521e3b77d58",
       "version-semver": "1.7.1",
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index 93f248e927..ba880197e0 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@
       "port-version": 3
     },
     "benchmark": {
-      "baseline": "1.7.1",
+      "baseline": "1.8.0",
       "port-version": 0
     },
     "bento4": {