Why is my geekbench so low?

[Somekindahoooman]

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/15117242

 

 

5200 is pretty less for this CPU. especially compared to what others are using. I use a noctua cooler, and can easily hit and sustain 4Ghz...

[YoungBlade]

It looks like you had a particularly bad result for the "Horizon Detection" test - other 1900X results in Linux score 10-20 times higher. So I'd try running the test again to see if you still get the same result there. It could be that some background process interfered or that your overclock isn't 100% stable.

[SimplyChunk]

I'd concur.  If your overclock isn't stable your CPU will be doing little error corrections while under load and your score will be effected.  What benchmark did you use to validate improvements while you incremented your clock speed?

 

Edit:

Did you take a baseline score with stock settings first?

[PDifolco]

My 5900X scores around 1700/14000, so your single score score don't seem that amiss (first gen Ryzen weren't great at that) but the multicore one should be higher, at least 8000

[SimplyChunk]

26 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

My 5900X scores around 1700/14000, so your single score score don't seem that amiss (first gen Ryzen weren't great at that) but the multicore one should be higher, at least 8000

Not sure where you're getting 8000 from.  My 10900K only scores 9881

[PDifolco]

52 minutes ago, SimplyChunk said:

Not sure where you're getting 8000 from.  My 10900K only scores 9881

Ok indeed then OP result of 5k is quite normal