Varying Geekbench 5 scores

[Tomcaster]

Hi!

first post here for me

I got myself a new MacBook Pro 16 with the i9 9880HK 2.4 GHz, 32 GB RAM and the Radeon 5500M graphics card. I ran the compute tests and got the following scores:
- Metal 25.667 https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/compute/274784
- openCL 28.114 https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/compute/274803

I saw top results for Metal with >30.000 points. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/compute/273531 How Is that possible?

Background info: the tests were ran one day after purchase, after approx 12h running time and three restarts. No massive processes running in the background.

Can you help me with that?

Tom

 

[Sanpete]

How much VRAM for your GPU, 4GB or 8?

Best to run tests right after restart with no other programs open.

 

[Tomcaster]

8GB as indicated in the configuration in the link. Yes, did the tests immediately. The results are consistent with some reviews I saw in the web, so OpenCL around 28k and Metal around 26k. No idea how some magicians went up to 32k on metal...

 

[yachtmac]

The frequency of your ram is reporting 1333 MHz. I don’t think this looks right?

 

[Sanpete]

Oh, the OpenCL link shows it, but the Metal link doesn't. That's curious.

I've never run that benchmark, so I don't know whether throttling may be an issue. I suppose differences in processes that run on startup, maybe even stuff like graphics settings could matter. But I'm just guessing.

 

[Tomcaster]

There are no real options to change settings at Geekbench as far as I have seen. Tried to terminate everything non-essential. Even results by journalists / bloggers vary by more than 10 percent.
i checked hard drive and CPU and here the results are a lot more consistent between users and my Mac falls right into the ballpark.

 

[leman]

Geekbench is just not a good benchmark. They do too many tests in too short amount of time, it is very sensitive to random back ground flukes etc. etc. I am seeing results that vary by up to 800 points in consecutive runs.

 

[Tomcaster]

I had 2000 points of fluctuation!

so what tool would you recommend?

 

[_Kiki_]

3DMark on Win10