2026-09-28T11:19:32.499219Z

Apple's A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record — 2nm chip beats desktop Intel Core i9 and AMD Ryzen 9 by up to 32%

www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/apples-a20-pro-shatters-geekbench-7-single-core-record-2nm-chip-beats-desktop-intel-core-i9-and-amd-ryzen-9-by-up-to-32-percent

Tom's HardwareApple's A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record — 2nm chip beats desktop Intel Core i9 and AMD Ryzen 9 by up to 32%Eats Intel's entry Panther Lake CPUs for breakfast too.

2026-09-28T11:33:22.340379Z

manualoverride@manualoverride@lemmy.world

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Actually insane they are beating desktop processors with a phone CPU.

2026-09-28T12:13:09.055058Z

theunknownmuncher@theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world

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Except they aren’t, outside of synthetic geekbench benchmark that is designed to produce this exact result…

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2026-09-28T22:44:58.628928Z

Ohmmy@Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Geekbench is basically known for favoring Apple. It’s the consumer pc equivalent of “my dad can beat up your dad” because it is all made up and not real.

2026-09-28T23:42:21.991453Z

theunknownmuncher@theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world

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Yes, geekbench numbers are completely meaningless and do not reflect reality

2026-09-29T17:37:22.21465Z

Ohmmy@Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Unironically, yes. Especially when one is ARM and one is X86.