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Cinebench 2026 is questionable

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greenmike

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Assuming that the new Cinebench 2026 offers a better support for efficiency cores, including Apple Silicone chips, it leaves me a little bit baffled given that old CPU's like the 9900K have increased performance of nearly 100% compared to the 14700K for example.

So it looks like that Cinebench 2026 actually handles efficiency cores worse than Cinebench 2024.

I'm quite disappointed because I know from my own experience, comparing 14700K and 14900K to the 9900K in apps that I use, that the score of Cinebench 2024 reliably represented the respective CPUs' performance difference.

The same also applies to my Mac Mini M4 Pro. A much smaller performance gap all of a sudden to older CPUs with less efficiency cores. Dunno what they did but Cinebench 2026 is worse at handling efficiency cores, evidently.

And please don't mention Geekbench being a better benchmark for Macs or I'll eat my hat.
 
A tiny mention of the mini but you opened up about how the differences are impacting intel

What ever, I was trying to be helpful you wanted to just be insulting - I'm out
 
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maflynn said:
A tiny mention of the mini but you opened up about how the differences are impacting intel

What ever, I was trying to be helpful you wanted to just be insulting - I'm out
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Sorry, didn't mean to be rude, I was just a bit cheeky.

I mentioned Intel because I was able to draw a bigger performance gap but this also applies to Apple Silicone.
 
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From the article linked to earlier in this thread:

Cinebench 2026 uses the latest version of the Redshift engine that Maxon says ought to be six times harsher on multi-threaded tests compared to the the previous version.
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Depending on how Maxon has implemented this, it could explain the perceived differences in results. It's also important to note that scores between different versions of Cinebench are not directly comparable to each other, so comparing 2024 and 2026 scores has no real value.

Whether the systems being tested are running x86 (Intel/AMD) or Apple Silicon (no e) is irrelevant, as the testing methodology is identical across platforms.
 
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dmccloud said:
From the article linked to earlier in this thread:



Depending on how Maxon has implemented this, it could explain the perceived differences in results. It's also important to note that scores between different versions of Cinebench are not directly comparable to each other, so comparing 2024 and 2026 scores has no real value.

Whether the systems being tested are running x86 (Intel/AMD) or Apple Silicon (no e) is irrelevant, as the testing methodology is identical across platforms.
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The aforementioned might be the case but it's very odd that older CPUs all of a sudden perform better. There's some mishap going on with the efficiency cores, 100%.

Newer versions of the engine should harness newer CPUs better and not the other way around.
 
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