CPU Benchmark Debates

Users discuss and dispute the validity, accuracy, and comparability of CPU benchmarks like Geekbench, Cinebench, and CPUbenchmark when comparing processors across generations, architectures, and vendors such as Intel, AMD, and Apple.

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michaelmrose • Aug 30, 2018 • View on HN

Benchmarks please with current generation processors and a chips from the same price point.

goisa • Apr 13, 2018 • View on HN

This benchmark is a joke. Those 3 cpus cannot be compared to eachother.

dom96 • Aug 23, 2018 • View on HN

Compare the benchmarks for those processors?

IceWreck • Sep 25, 2022 • View on HN

If you want to compare CPUs do benchmarks like Geekbench instead of comparing a single metric.

DarkmSparks • Oct 21, 2021 • View on HN

no it doesnt, you must have misread the benchmark scores.

LIV2 • Nov 12, 2020 • View on HN

Is geekbench accurate at comparing across different architectures?

andrewstuart • Jan 8, 2024 • View on HN

More interesting to benchmark the same CPU with an actual 1650.

jasondclinton • Jun 19, 2018 • View on HN

The benchmark results at that link are from machines with different processor clocks. The results are invalid.

charwalker • Jun 18, 2021 • View on HN

UserBenchmark, at least in recent years, has skewed any subjective content toward Nvidia/Intel ex core count comparisons. This site is solid.

rubbingalcohol • Sep 21, 2019 • View on HN

Based on what evidence? A single core Geekbench run?