News Apple's M4 Max is the single-core performance king in Geekbench 6 — M4 Max beats the Core Ultra 9 285K and Ryzen 9 9950X

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So they are upfront about not targeting multi-threaded rendering and the like. If reviewers represent it otherwise that isn’t really GB’s fault.

No, being up front about doing something dumb doesn't make it not dumb. 15 to 20 years ago, it made sense to look at how well CPUs would perform a small number of concurrent tasks. These days, that's a non-issue. That's why I and most others probably assumed it's like all the other MT benchmarks and actually tested multithread scalability.

I can see the logic of having a multi-threaded benchmark that tries to simulate the way games use multiple threads and most of them only seem to scale up to about 8 cores. However, if that's what they were trying to do, then they should've called it the GeekBench Gaming (CPU) test, sort of like what 3DMark does.

I for one am glad there is an easily accessible benchmark that isn’t all about ultimate multi-threaded performance but more related to what most people’s workload is like.

GB6 MT is dead to me. I will heap scorn upon it when and wherever I see it mentioned, henceforth.