Highest Geekbench 5 single core score is apparently 2239 on a 5800x (https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/singlecore?page=1)

Highest m1 single core score is 1716 (https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/search?q=Apple+M1)

(Of course they're likely overclocked past factory settings, but if we ignore those results that's not the fastest CPU core in the world, is it?)

Geekbench has also not traditionally been a benchmark used for x86 desktop chips, it's more commonly used to compare android and apple phones.

> Geekbench has also not traditionally been a benchmark used for x86 desktop chips, it's more commonly used to compare android and apple phones.

This isn’t really true. Geekbench started out as a desktop (Mac) app. Originally it was calibrated so that Power Mac G5 would get a score of 1000. They’ve recalibrated since then and added mobile versions, but it has its roots in desktop benchmarking.

2239 for a Ryzen 5800x single core isn’t just overclocked, that’s like 6GHz LN2 overclocked. Looks dubious to me.

The M1 changed the game. Measuring single core on an M1 may be counter productive. E.g. javascript runs on 2 to 3 cores at once even though it's single threaded. Thanks to running RISC instructions of a single process in parallel on multiple cores. Thats why javascript on the M1 is twice as fast as on Intel, even though the M1 just runs at 3Ghz.