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Apple M6 Pro achieves the highest single-core CPU score in Geekbench 7

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  1. a3w · · focus · HN ↗
    >4k? Thought not would barely twice that of an 15 year old CPU, but it of course is geekbench 7, not 6 or 5!

    So this is different and faster than such a result in the old scoring would have implied.

    1. fsh · · focus · HN ↗
      It is not quite twice the score of a 6 year old Apple M1 though. And this is with much higher clock speeds (4.8 GHz vs. 3.2 GHz).
      1. alasano · · focus · HN ↗
        Shame, I only upgrade my M1 for chips that are at least twice as fast.

        It feels like a crime upgrading from this thing tbh.

        1. rbanffy · · focus · HN ↗
          Recently I have upgraded for memory capacity.
          1. alasano · · focus · HN ↗
            Jokes aside yeah I'm definitely in need of a ram upgrade. Or I have to learn how to close Firefox tabs.

            But with a few docker containers, android studio running an emulator + vscode and a ton of Claude code / Pi / Codex instances, I'm basically maxed out all the time now.

            1. alpaca128 · · focus · HN ↗
              "Or I have to learn how to close Firefox tabs"

              I use about:processes to stop processes that eat up too much memory over time. The tabs stay open but get unloaded. YouTube especially acts like a black hole for memory if you let it.

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