AMD Ryzen 9 5900X in iMac Pro produces spectacular single-core scores on Geekbench that seem too good to be true

[Redaktion]

The top single-core score chart for Geekbench 5 is currently headed by a couple of entries that were purportedly produced by a potent combination of an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and Apple iMac Pro. While the results are breathtaking, the information raises a red flag in regard to how accurate these particular Geekbench listings are.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ryzen-9-5900X-in-iMac-Pro-produces-spectacular-single-core-scores-on-Geekbench-that-seem-too-good-to-be-true.504061.0.html

[L]

Buying an iMac or any PC from Apple when they are transiting from x86 to arm is a risk at best as we don't know how long it will be supported in terms of the OS and software. Either wait for the new models or choose another manufacturer.

[Henk Poley]

"User submitted benchmark database has falsified data"

Gosh 🤭

[Joe King]

Couldn't it be a Hackintosh?

[TechnoTurnip]

You need to do your research: this is definitively an AMD hackintosh (evidenced by Acidanthera Mac-7BA5B2D9E42DDD94 iMacPro1,1 in its geekbench system ID), and the figures are both plausible and consistent with the rest of the 5xxx CPUs - in fact, and as one would expect, the 5900 outpaces the 5950 on single-core scores, due to it's higher base clock. I run a 3900X-based hackintosh and produce similar looking (albeit lower) Geekbench scores.

[Gustavo]

That's just a Hackintosh, like the one I've had for at least 8 years now, running on a regular PC desktop with an old Core i7 3770k @ 4.4 GHz and 32 GB of RAM. All my Geekbench scores show up as Mac Mini, and I've never seen one with that configuration.