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		nebula8804 on Oct 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Available Today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 a.k.a. Proje... I learned this lesson the hard way during the AMD Phenom era. Core count are not a good representation of performance because the 8 "big" cores could be blazing fast or be secretly powered by a hamster on a wheel. What is the actual benchmark performance on real applications you might use? Thats what matters at the end of the day.

seanp2k2 on Oct 24, 2022 [–]

There are already other machines with 8cx Gen3 CPUs on Geekbench if you want to compare: https://browser.geekbench.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=8cx+ge... it's like a third slower than an M1 Max in single-core.

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