Which benchmarks are important?

[westla]

Hi all,

Looking to get a new Mac (mini/Pro/iMac) and I'm looking at various specs. Which benchmark speeds are most relevant for using a Mac with DP?

Geekbench 2 (32)
Geekbench 2 (64)
Geekbench 3 (32)
Geekbench 3 (64)
Geekbench 4 (SC)
Geekbench 4 (MC)

Or is it a combination of all of them?

Thanks!

[HCMarkus]

Multi Core scores generally indicate relative overall performance with DP

[westla]

Thanks!

[Michael Canavan]

Single core scores are DP's (or any DAW really) CPU load on one track.
So it's not totally black and white, but the more cores the more a single CPU can dedicate itself to a single track, otherwise it's splitting duties between tracks. For what we do a 12 core 2.4ghz machine makes more sense than an 8 core 3ghz machine for most things. Mastering engineers would be better off with a faster i7 3.5ghz machine than a new mac pro 24 core 2.2ghz Xeon though, for these very reasons.
When I eventually upgrade this old mac pro for instance, since I tend to write with about 8-16 software instruments, half heavy CPU, then plug ins etc. it make more sense for me to look at 16 core machines at higher individual CPU performance than the top of the line 24 core.