May 27th, 2020 at 12:20 AM
See, the thing with Geekbench scores is that 1000 is measured to be a 'baseline' standard from some 8th gen i3.
Note that i3's are at the cheaper end for budget computing, and as a result will have better single-threaded performance because they're for consumers who don't do computationally-intensive tasks that require multiple cores (note again that the i3 in question is 4C/4T, meaning it doesn't pack 2 logical cores per physical core, already bottlenecking multithreaded performance.)
So having a result around 600 for single-threaded performance and 1400 for multithreaded is actually more or less average even by today's standards for anything that isn't complete budget. And Macbooks are certainly not budget by any means, rather, MacOS (or in your case OS X) is based on BSD and is built tailored to the hardware for the most optimal performance.
Note the Geekbench scores I got on a pretty old Acer: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/1959003
Roughly the same score for single-threaded tasks, but since it's an i7, multithreading is significantly faster.
But also keep in mind the Macbook you benchmarked was running at 2.50GHz and because it's a mobile-series CPU, it will throttle for power draw. The base score CPU runs at 3.60GHz according to Intel page. You're able to get some really good scores at like two thirds of the clock speed. And that's pretty f*** impressive.
Now unlock your bootloader/BIOS and OC that thing to shit lmao. Liquid Nitrogen cooling on that bihhhh
Note that i3's are at the cheaper end for budget computing, and as a result will have better single-threaded performance because they're for consumers who don't do computationally-intensive tasks that require multiple cores (note again that the i3 in question is 4C/4T, meaning it doesn't pack 2 logical cores per physical core, already bottlenecking multithreaded performance.)
So having a result around 600 for single-threaded performance and 1400 for multithreaded is actually more or less average even by today's standards for anything that isn't complete budget. And Macbooks are certainly not budget by any means, rather, MacOS (or in your case OS X) is based on BSD and is built tailored to the hardware for the most optimal performance.
Note the Geekbench scores I got on a pretty old Acer: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/1959003
Roughly the same score for single-threaded tasks, but since it's an i7, multithreading is significantly faster.
But also keep in mind the Macbook you benchmarked was running at 2.50GHz and because it's a mobile-series CPU, it will throttle for power draw. The base score CPU runs at 3.60GHz according to Intel page. You're able to get some really good scores at like two thirds of the clock speed. And that's pretty f*** impressive.
Now unlock your bootloader/BIOS and OC that thing to shit lmao. Liquid Nitrogen cooling on that bihhhh
