High core count CPUs are only useful for specific workloads and should not be purchased as general purpose fast CPUs. Unless you’re doing specific tasks that scale by core count, a CPU with fewer cores and higher single threaded throughput would be faster for normal use cases.

The callout against the poor journalism at Tom’s Hardware isn’t something new. They have a couple staff members posting clickbait all the time. Some times the links don’t even work or they have completely wrong claims. This is par for the site now.

To be fair, the Tom’s Hardware article did call out these points and the limitations in the article, so this SlashDot critique is basically repeating the content of the Tom’s Hardware article but more critically https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/apples-18-co...

Pretending that everything a CPU does is an embarrassingly parallel problem is heinous benchmarking malpractice. Yes, Geekbench 6 has its flaws, and limitations. All benchmarks do. Geekbench 6 has valid uses, and its limitations are defensible in the context of using it to measure what it is intended to measure. The scalability limitations it illustrates are real problems that affect real workloads and use cases. Calling it "broken" because it doesn't produce the kind of scores a marketing department would want to see from a 96-core CPU reflects more poorly on you than it does on Geekbench 6.

First plot really says it all.

how good is the M5 Max in comparison to a 96-core threadripper? what's the tl;dr, where are the broader assortments of benchmarks

I just want to see some bargraphs that say "lower is better" or "higher is better"