[wtallis]

Geekbench 6 isn't really marketed as a one-size-fits-all benchmark. It's specifically aimed at consumer hardware. The first paragraph on geekbench.com reads:

> Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark that measures your system's performance with the press of a button. How will your mobile device or desktop computer perform when push comes to crunch? How will it compare to the newest devices on the market? Find out today with Geekbench 6.

And further down,

> Includes updated CPU workloads and new Compute workloads that model real-world tasks and applications. Geekbench is a benchmark that reflects what actual users face on their mobile devices and personal computers.

[refulgentis]

The problem is, in practice, despite nonspecific marketing language, people do use the multicore benchmark to measure multicore performance. Including for things like Threadripper, which is not exactly an exotic science project CPU or non-personal or non-desktop.

[wtallis]

> Including for things like Threadripper, which is not exactly an exotic science project CPU or non-personal or non-desktop.

We're talking about a CPU with a list price over $10000.

Geekbench 6 is a bad test to use to assess the suitability of a 96-core Threadripper for the kinds of use cases where buying a 96-core Threadripper might make sense. But Geekbench 6 does a very good job of illustrating the point that buying a 96-core Threadripper would be a stupid waste of money for a personal desktop and the typical use cases of a personal desktop.

[refulgentis]

Holy hell. Lol. I did not realize how generous $PREVIOUS_EMPLOYER was.