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wtallislast Thursday at 7:50 PM2 repliesview on HN

Geekbench is not intended for benchmarking large workstations. Look at how the web site actually describes the benchmark. It's for phones and laptops and similar devices. A test mode that uses a machine in a way that is only relevant to high-end workstation or server use would be actively harmful to the suitability of Geekbench for its intended audience of consumer hardware and consumer users.


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aurareturnlast Thursday at 11:23 PM

No idea why you're downvoted. Geekbench's focus is consumer workloads. In consumer workloads, having 20 cores or more is nearly useless. Most normal people will not need more than 8 in 2026. You're better off with a few fast cores over many slow cores.

Geekbench isn't a server CPU benchmark that stresses 128 core CPUs.

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jchwlast Thursday at 8:24 PM

Well, apparently they must not agree.