A Reminder That Geekbench 6 is NOT for Big CPUs
Every so often when we do server reviews, folks ask for Geekbench 6 results so that they can compare their desktop, old server, Raspberry Pi or what have you to the latest server chip. Although Geekbench 5 is now considered “legacy” it is also much better suited to huge numbers of cores found in today’s processors.
Geekbench is primarily targeted at lower-end desktop and mobile processors. There are so many mobile devices out there that this makes sense. On the other hand, for large systems, we have seen since the Geekbench 6 launched that it is not designed to scale efficiently across multiple cores. At the time, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3995WX, a huge 64 core/ 128 thread part, was performing at only 3-4x the rate of an Intel D-1718T quad-core part, even despite the fact it had 16x the core count and lots of other features. Make no mistake, the AMD part is designed and is indeed much faster, and not 3-4x.
We recently tried the AmpereOne A192-32X on Geekbench 5 and it posted some solid numbers. Geekbench 6 for Arm errored out so we did not get a result for that one.
