[AnthonyMouse]

That doesn't make any sense. Many of the applications are identical, e.g. developer workstations and CI servers are both compiling code, video editing workstations and render farms are both processing video. A lot of the hardware is all but indistinguishable; Epyc and Threadripper have similar core counts and even use the same core complexes.

The only real distinction is between high end systems and low end systems, but that's exactly what a benchmark should be able to usefully compare because people want to know what a higher price tag would buy them.

[ZiiS]

For >99% of people looking to compile code or render video on an M5 Laptop they are interested in the wall-clock time, running bare metal, assuming all IO is to a fast NVMe SSD, and even a large job will only thermally throttle for a bit then recover.

Most people looking to optimize Epyc compile or render performance care about running inside VMs, all IO to SANs, assuming the is enough work you can yield to other jobs to increase throughput, and ideally near thermal equilibrium.