I never said SPECInt was synthetic though did I? What are you arguing against?
Yet a benchmark of how Xalan-C++ transforms XML documents has shockingly little relevance to most of the things I do. And the M1 runs the 400.perlbench benchmark slower than the 5950X, yet it runs the 456.hmmer benchmark twice as quickly, both I guess mattering if I'm running those specific programs?
As with the strawman that I said it was synthetic, I also didn't say it was useless. Not sure why you're making things. It's an interesting benchmark, but most people (yup, there's that appeal again) find Geekbench more informative.
And, again, most people, including the vast majority of experts in this field, respect geekbench as a decent broad-spectrum benchmark. As with all things there are always contrarians.
>And this subthread is about using benchmarks to compare HARDWARE, not whole system
Bizarre. This submission is specifically about Geekbench, specifically about the M4 running, of course, macOS. This subthread is someone noting that they can't escape the negatron contrarians who always pipe up with the No True Benchmark noise.
Yet a benchmark of how Xalan-C++ transforms XML documents has shockingly little relevance to most of the things I do. And the M1 runs the 400.perlbench benchmark slower than the 5950X, yet it runs the 456.hmmer benchmark twice as quickly, both I guess mattering if I'm running those specific programs?
As with the strawman that I said it was synthetic, I also didn't say it was useless. Not sure why you're making things. It's an interesting benchmark, but most people (yup, there's that appeal again) find Geekbench more informative.
And, again, most people, including the vast majority of experts in this field, respect geekbench as a decent broad-spectrum benchmark. As with all things there are always contrarians.
>And this subthread is about using benchmarks to compare HARDWARE, not whole system
Bizarre. This submission is specifically about Geekbench, specifically about the M4 running, of course, macOS. This subthread is someone noting that they can't escape the negatron contrarians who always pipe up with the No True Benchmark noise.