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@Mark Spoonauer you may want to re-run those Geekbench 6 results. In the past, iPhones have been slower for a little while after the initial hardware setup. Not sure if it's some kind of databasing/indexing/app optimization process that's happening but it's generally what I've seen. I just downloaded and ran Geekbench 6 on a Titanium Blue 512GB Pro Max model and got:
Geekbench 6 Single Core = 2939 (+5.6%)
Geekbench 6 Multi Core = 7396 (+6.5%)
No special cooling/fans/freezer tricks. Just sitting on my mouse pad next to me. Didn't even bother dumping previously opened apps that were sitting in memory. That's a very large difference and not just margin of error. I ran the GPU bench in the app as well as got:
Geekbench 6 GPU Metal Score = 27149
3D Mark Wildlife Unlimited = 15549 (+0.97%)
3D Mark Wildlife Extreme Unlimited = 3410
So GPU score seem to be within margin. I re-ran the Geekbench 6 CPU benchmark about a minute after doing those 3 GPU benches and it still came back with:
Geekbench 6 Single Core = 2957 (+6.2%)
Geekbench 6 Multi Core = 7391 (+6.4%)
So I decided to run 3 of the Geekbench 6 CPU benchmarks back to back without delay to see how much of a drop there would be on subsequent runs due to the accumulated heat.
Geekbench 6 Single Core: 2961, 2936, 2931
Geekbench 6 Multi Core: 7368, 7332, 7334
So after 3 back to back runs, the variance between each run was under 1%. If you re-run the tests and are still scoring 6% lower than me, then that may call for further investigation in a future article.
I just checked PhoneArena and Apple Insider both scored near identical single core scores, though multi-core scores varied at 7288 and 7018 and MacRumors scored within 1-2% on both. So your numbers are lower by quite a bit and we need to find out why.
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