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Do you have sources? I have never heard of any CPU manufacturer optimizing Geekbench scores. Consumer grade CPUs are driven by a variety of things - marketing,
by systemvoltage 6y ago
Do you have sources? I have never heard of any CPU manufacturer optimizing Geekbench scores.
Consumer grade CPUs are driven by a variety of things - marketing, brand loyalty, gaming benchmarks, reviewers such as Anantech and Extremetech, and yes, Geekbench scores. Datacenter processors are a whole another beast and driven by proprietary benchmarks by vendors.
Geekbench runs so many different tests, atleast a couple of dozens of tests. So, if CPU manufacturers are optimizing to those tests, its hard to believe that that's not a good thing and would apply to pretty much what an average user does in the first place.
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