Question Oddly low benchmark

[SpiralScrub]

So I was looking into how to overclock my CPU, when I noticed the benchmark is much lower than the average I was seeing online
CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 2700X - 4GHz
RAM - 24GB - 3000MHz

I saw online benchmarks at 3.7GHz getting a score on Cinebench of 1617 points, my benchmark at 3.7GHz is 482 points. Any idea why it's performing so poorly?

For reference, my power mode is set to High Performance, and the temp during the benchmarks was 67c
My other components:
GPU - Radeon RX 7700 XT
Motherboard - STRIX B450-F GAMING

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Is your system identical to those other systems in ALL respects? If not then you cannot possibly expect the same results.

 

[CelicaGT]

Cinebench has both a single core and multi core benchmark. Did you run the correct one?

 

[SpiralScrub]

Is your system identical to those other systems in ALL respects? If not then you cannot possibly expect the same results.

No it's not, but I looked at 10s of benchmarks with varied setups, some had less powerful components than me & they still pulled a score over 1000. Having less than a 3rd of the average seems too much a deficit to ignore.

 

[SpiralScrub]

Cinebench has both a single core and multi core benchmark. Did you run the correct one?

I used multi core, I'm not sure if all the examples I saw used multi, but I know some did

 

[CelicaGT]

Which software did you use to monitor clock speed? FWIW Task Manager reports Ryzen clock speed incorrectly. The most plausible reason for the deficit is clock speed, or you have lots (and lots) of background tasks. Personally I use Ryzen Master, as it seems to be the only suite to report clock speed, temperature and power correctly and in real time. HWiNFO does an OK job too but I prefer the histogram setup that RM can show.

 

[SpiralScrub]

Which software did you use to monitor clock speed? FWIW Task Manager reports Ryzen clock speed incorrectly. The most plausible reason for the deficit is clock speed, or you have lots (and lots) of background tasks. Personally I use Ryzen Master, as it seems to be the only suite to report clock speed, temperature and power correctly and in real time. HWiNFO does an OK job too but I prefer the histogram setup that RM can show.

I got my clock speed from the bios on startup, so I don't think that could've been reported incorrectly, as for background tasks, I can try Ryzen Master tomorrow & make sure there's not much running. That said, I don't think there was much running when I ran my benchmarks anyways since I did it on startup.

 

[CountMike]

I got my clock speed from the bios on startup, so I don't think that could've been reported incorrectly, as for background tasks, I can try Ryzen Master tomorrow & make sure there's not much running. That said, I don't think there was much running when I ran my benchmarks anyways since I did it on startup.

BIOS shows only what is set to do and it's not under any load like it is when benchmarking. In single core benchmark you can see what frequencies cores are capable of. It should be higher than all core by few hundred MHz.