<story><title>Performance comparison between 2017 iPad Pro and 2012 iMac</title><url>http://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/3036382?baseline=231758</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lorenzhs</author><text>It might make more sense to compare to a current-gen laptop, not a Desktop machine from five years ago: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;browser.geekbench.com&amp;#x2F;v4&amp;#x2F;cpu&amp;#x2F;compare&amp;#x2F;3036382?baseline=3041332&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;browser.geekbench.com&amp;#x2F;v4&amp;#x2F;cpu&amp;#x2F;compare&amp;#x2F;3036382?baseline...&lt;/a&gt; (archive: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.is&amp;#x2F;EVcuE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.is&amp;#x2F;EVcuE&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>
<story><title>Performance comparison between 2017 iPad Pro and 2012 iMac</title><url>http://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/3036382?baseline=231758</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>There is an... interesting post by Linus Torvalds about GeekBench:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.realworldtech.com&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;?threadid=136526&amp;amp;curpostid=136666&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.realworldtech.com&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;?threadid=136526&amp;amp;curposti...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;In other words, Linus claims it&amp;#x27;s mainly testing the speed of specialised instructions implemented in hardware, and not general-purpose computing. For a similar analogy, compare the speed of a Bitcoin mining ASIC vs. a GPU or even a CPU. At the same clock speed, dedicated hardware will vastly outperform the software implementation.&lt;p&gt;I think it&amp;#x27;s somewhat ironic then, that the &amp;quot;RISC&amp;quot; CPU is getting higher scores due to the presence of such CISC-y instructions.</text></comment>