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I agree. For me personally I mostly only care about single thread geekbench variant, I believe it's an excellent proxy for general performance of a CPU. Multi t
by osti 2mo ago
I agree. For me personally I mostly only care about single thread geekbench variant, I believe it's an excellent proxy for general performance of a CPU. Multi thread geekbench (or other benchmarks) for most purposes and for most people, it's kinda useless. You just need to know that you have a quite a few cores on your computer and that it will have enough concurrency for what you do. But single thread will make whatever you do actually faster.
- adrian_b 2mo agoThere are plenty of things for which the results of single-threaded benchmarks are completely irrelevant, like the compilation of a big software project. There are also things that are well-correlated with the single-threaded Geekbench result, like how responsive will appear an Internet browser, but for many professional uses the multi-threaded performance is much more important than the single-threaded performance. For many CPUs, and depending on the computers in which they are installed, the single-threaded and multi-threaded results are completely uncorrelated, because during the multi-threaded benchmark the clock frequency in some computer may drop even 4 times (there are Intel CPUs with a so big ratio between the maximum turbo frequency and the base frequency), while in another computer it might drop only by 20%.