I'm not too familiar with GeekBench, but I'm assuming it's userspace code. Whether it traces rays or does something else isn't that important, because the slowd

I'm not too familiar with GeekBench, but I'm assuming it's userspace code. Whether it traces rays or does something else isn't that important, because the slowdown is with syscalls. As for what common users execute, based on my observations over the years it's mostly web browsing. However my personal vision of common workloads is a distraction. I have made no claims to know common workloads. I merely stated that Apple has chosen a particular set to be representative.