Re:Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper?
by Aurornis on Saturday March 07, 2026 @06:16PM
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> then it shouldn’t be treated as a general multicore CPU benchmark,
It is a general multi core benchmark for its target audience.
It’s not marketed as “the multi core scaling benchmark”. Geekbench is advertised as a benchmark suite and it has options to run everything limited to a single core or to let it use as many cores as it can.
It is a general multi core benchmark for its target audience.
It’s not marketed as “the multi core scaling benchmark”. Geekbench is advertised as a benchmark suite and it has options to run everything limited to a single core or to let it use as many cores as it can.
96-core CPUs are not its target audience.