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Re:Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper? by wang_li on Monday March 09, 2026 @09:54AM (#47309105)
The only reason for a multicore benchmark is when the benchmark represents some common task that is not embarrassingly parallel. If your multicore benchmark is just a single threaded test run on a bunch of cores, it’s pointless. I can simply do math to find that result, max(single core performance multiplied by the number of cores, memory bandwidth divide by bandwidth required per thread).

A good benchmark will be something people actually do.

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