Geekbench has always been a little unpredictable. It was most famously skewed quite heavily in Apple's favor before Geekbench 4, and even the modern scores are pretty opaque. I'd wait to see real-world performance metrics out of it.
Hmm not sure what I was looking at before, that site is not the easiest to navigate.
Did I pick the wrong regular M1 Macbook?
Edit: Hmm. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/10508059?baseli...
I guess Geekbench is a little unpredictable?
And it looks like HN is pushing their capacity...