So I ran a CPU-Z benchmark on my Ryzen 7 5800X and it scored 7213 points multi-core.
The thing is… I genuinely don’t know how I got that score.
No crazy manual overclock, no exotic cooling, nothing special that I’m aware of. Just ran the benchmark and that was the result. I was expecting a solid score, but this seems higher than what I usually see reported for stock or lightly tuned 5800X setups.
Here’s the validation link if anyone wants to take a look:
https://valid.x86.fr/tyxsi9
If someone can explain what might be going on here (boost behavior, PBO, background conditions, silicon lottery, etc.), I’m all ears.