If one browses through the Geekbench 5 results for 9980hk one will find single-core scores of up to 1400 and multi-core scores of up to 8900 (posted today; a score of 8500 was posted on March 4th) . There are Precision 5540 scores of 1390/7900 as well. Therefore the title of this article is not exactly true. Note also that the machines responsible for the 8400+ scores are from Asus, which might lead one to believe that it is possible to tune not only the CPU but also the OS to perform well at Geekbench. In any case, Geekbench is one of the most pointless benchmarks around; it does not measure long-term performance but only responsiveness. In Linux for example, setting the Intel p-state driver to "powersave" (CPU performance on-demand) will give lower results that "performance" (CPU at max frequency permanently) in Geekbench whereas any other long-term computational task will not be affected either way.