Geekbench
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“People really shouldn't call Geekbench a synthetic benchmark anymore, since it has been using real world workloads for years now.”
“the only benchmark I use to quickly judge some CPU is geekbench”
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“For productivity you can check Phoronix or even the GeekBench details in the compiler section”
“Pull up a unified benchmark like the OpenCL Geekbench”
Caveats and dissent
“Geekbench might flatter the Apple chips for multicore a bit”
“The Geekbench multi-threaded results do not provide any useful information about how a computer will behave for such applications.”
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Threads where it came up
- Geekbench 7 6 mentions
- Apple M6 Pro achieves the highest single-core CPU score in Geekbench 7 2 mentions
- Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper? 2 mentions
- AMD continues to chip away at Intel's x86 market share 2 mentions
- Steam Machine 2 mentions
- Free the Icons 1 mention
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All comments 19
“Geekbench might flatter the Apple chips for multicore a bit”
“Leaked prior to launch - Leaked Benchmarks Confirm M2 Chip”
“Geekbench has that as a subtest.”
“The Geekbench multi-threaded results do not provide any useful information about how a computer will behave for such applications.”
“cheating on Geekbench is more difficult”
“People really shouldn't call Geekbench a synthetic benchmark anymore, since it has been using real world workloads for years now.”
“In the past, they have provided information on which workloads they use.”
“Never really liked Geekbench.”
“Geekbench is bursty”
“That specific Geekbench test is to measure the ANE performance”
“Geekbench is basically trash.”
“Geekbench 6 was around ~2600 single-core with the VM overhead for me”
“the only benchmark I use to quickly judge some CPU is geekbench”
“GeekBench probably made the right choice to optimize for more realistic real-world workloads”
“Have a look at Geekbench's results.”
“just puts a list of all benchmarks, even when the CPU is the same”
“For productivity you can check Phoronix or even the GeekBench details in the compiler section”
“Pull up a unified benchmark like the OpenCL Geekbench”
“Using Geekbench I saw only a 5% cpu performance penalty.”