Comment by wtallis
4 days ago
Geekbench is not just intended to be used to benchmark consumer systems, it is intended to be used by consumers to benchmark their systems and to have its scores interpreted by consumers. For that audience, the most important thing that a multi-core score needs to do is counteract the naive assumption that a 20-core CPU will be twice as fast as a 10-core CPU. Having one of the top-line scores be a perfectly-scaling multi-core score that you know will be widely misinterpreted by your audience and used by vendors to mislead consumers would be serious benchmarking malpractice.
You start by saying it's used by the users and then end by saying it'd be abused by the vendors. You can't play both sides as reasons at the same time.
Besides, UserBenchmark is clearly intended to be used by users as well. It's right in the name. There has not been confusion with it, if anything labeling the scores as what they are instead of hiding it under how you want a user to see it is both clearer and avoiding benchmark malpractice - not the other way around.