diff --git a/benchmarks/BM_powerFollower.cpp b/benchmarks/BM_powerFollower.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4358f596
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmarks/BM_powerFollower.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
+
+// This code is part of the sfizz library and is licensed under a BSD 2-clause
+// license. You should have receive a LICENSE.md file along with the code.
+// If not, contact the sfizz maintainers at https://github.com/sfztools/sfizz
+
+#include "PowerFollower.h"
+#include "AudioBuffer.h"
+#include "Config.h"
+#include <benchmark/benchmark.h>
+#include <cmath>
+
+class PowerFollowerFixture : public benchmark::Fixture {
+public:
+    PowerFollowerFixture()
+    {
+        inputSignal_ = sfz::AudioBuffer<float>(2, numFrames);
+        auto leftSignal = inputSignal_.getSpan(0);
+        auto rightSignal = inputSignal_.getSpan(1);
+        float phase = 0;
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < numFrames; ++i) {
+            constexpr float k2pi = 2.0 * M_PI;
+            leftSignal[i] = std::sin(k2pi * phase);
+            rightSignal[i] = std::cos(k2pi * phase);
+            phase += 440.0f / sfz::config::defaultSampleRate;
+            phase -= static_cast<int>(phase);
+        }
+    }
+
+    void SetUp(const ::benchmark::State& state)
+    {
+        auto blockSize = static_cast<size_t>(state.range(0));
+        follower_.setSampleRate(sfz::config::defaultSampleRate);
+        follower_.setSamplesPerBlock(blockSize);
+        follower_.clear();
+    }
+
+    void TearDown(const ::benchmark::State& /* state */)
+    {
+    }
+
+    static constexpr size_t numFrames = 65536;
+    sfz::PowerFollower follower_;
+    sfz::AudioBuffer<float> inputSignal_;
+};
+
+constexpr size_t PowerFollowerFixture::numFrames;
+
+BENCHMARK_DEFINE_F(PowerFollowerFixture, Follower) (benchmark::State& state)
+{
+    sfz::AudioSpan<float> inputSignal(inputSignal_);
+    for (auto _ : state) {
+        auto& follower = follower_;
+        auto blockSize = static_cast<size_t>(state.range(0));
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < numFrames; i += blockSize)
+            follower.process(inputSignal.subspan(i, blockSize));
+    }
+}
+
+BENCHMARK_REGISTER_F(PowerFollowerFixture, Follower)->RangeMultiplier(2)->Range(1 << 5, 1 << 12);
diff --git a/benchmarks/CMakeLists.txt b/benchmarks/CMakeLists.txt
index 71fd0b14..4efb3d82 100644
--- a/benchmarks/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/benchmarks/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ sfizz_add_benchmark(bm_logger BM_logger.cpp)
 target_link_libraries(bm_logger PRIVATE sfizz::sfizz)
 sfizz_add_benchmark(bm_smoothers BM_smoothers.cpp)
 target_link_libraries(bm_smoothers PRIVATE sfizz::sfizz)
+sfizz_add_benchmark(bm_powerFollower BM_powerFollower.cpp)
+target_link_libraries(bm_powerFollower PRIVATE sfizz::sfizz)
 
 if (TARGET sfizz-samplerate)
 sfizz_add_benchmark(bm_resample BM_resample.cpp ${BENCHMARK_SIMD_SOURCES})