Evaluating Geekbench 6
Applications vary wildly in what they demand from a system, making it difficult for a single benchmark to provide a broadly representative score. Benchmark suites try to address this by running a set of workloads that hopefully capture a range of typical application behavior. SPEC CPU2017 is an industry standard benchmark suite that dates back to 1989. Geekbench is another suite with a more recent history, going back to around 2010 if I remember correctly. Unlike SPEC CPU2017, Geekbench has a st...
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