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Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by kbenson on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @09:14PM (#28939055)
You actually get better single core performance out of a 5900x than a 5950x. The more cores the AMD CPU has, generally the more they constrain the speed it can perform at on the top end. In this case, the 5950x is 3.5GHz and the 5900x is 3.7GHz. The 5800x is even slightly faster than that, and there's some Geekbench results that show single core performance faster than the score listed here, but at that point the multi-core performance isn't winning anymore.

Also, I'm not sure what's up with Geekbench results on MacOS, but here's a 5950x in an iMac Pro that trounces all the results we've mentioned here somehow.[1]

1: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/6034871

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Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by DarkmSparks on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:49AM (#28940402)
>that trounces all the results we've mentioned here somehow.[1]

MacOS, being unix based, has a decent thread scheduler - unlike windows 10/11, which is based on windows NT and 32bits, and never cared about anything other than single core performance until very very recently.

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Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by kbenson on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:55AM (#28940843)
If that's true it puts a lot of comparisons into question. That windows multiprocessing isn't as good as MacOS doesn't matter to a lot of people that run neither. There's not a lot of point in using these benchmarks to say something about the hardware if the software above it but below the benchmark can cause it to be off by such a large amount.
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Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by DarkmSparks on Thursday October 21, 2021 @04:07AM (#28941699)
Most comparisons have always been questionable. Main reason MacOS gets away with charging so much more for similar hardware and still dominates the productivity market is it squeezes so much more performance (and stability) out of equivalent hardware. Just check the geekbench top multithread scores, windows starts around the 39th _page_ - and thats for windows enterprise.
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Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by ihattendorf on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @09:30PM (#28939210)
That's not necessarily true, single core boost on a 5950x is higher than the 5900x (4.9GHz vs 4.8GHz).
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Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by nly on Thursday October 21, 2021 @04:25AM (#28941825)
That's obviously a Hackintosh or a VM result.
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