Right, that's also my guess. What I meant was that their document describing the v4 tests[1] mentions SSE and AVX, while the v5 version[2] does not. Does it mean that the v5 tests don't cover them? I found find it surprising for a benchmarking tool but they really were mentioned before and now they're not, hence my question.

If indeed v5 tests are not particularly about specialized performance but more about real-world use cases (e.g. PDF rendering, SQLite, image compression as others have mentioned) then running Geekbench v4 on M1+Rosetta would give a comparison of emulated x86 without vector instructions versus native x86 with all of its modern capabilities. Now if the M1 wins that…

[1] https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench4-cpu-workloads.pdf

[2] https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench5-cpu-workloads.pdf