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Submission + - Does Apple's M5 Max Really "Destroy" a 96-Core
Threadripper? (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by Ecuador on Saturday March 07, 2026 @05:00PM
Ecuador writes: Tom's Hardware currently has a front-page article
making some wild claims about the 18-core Apple M5 Max versus a
96-core Ryzen Threadripper.

Reading the article, the comparison is based largely on Geekbench 6
multi-core scores. The author briefly mentions that Geekbench doesn't
scale well, but doesn't really make clear just how bad the scaling
actually is.

From my own experience doing cloud benchmarking for work, unlike
previous versions, Geekbench 6 multi-core is essentially useless for
large CPUs. Some of the suite's tests (including workloads that are
normally very parallelizable) stop scaling beyond 4-8 cores, and the
overall score can actually start dropping as you add more and more
cores.

I wrote a more detailed breakdown of the issue last year.

Is this a new low for a major tech site, running sensational
headlines based on such inappropriate benchmarking, or is this just
the new normal?

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