Geekbench is the only consumer usable cross-platform benchmark. It matches SPEC differences between platforms

Does it test hardware, or hardware plus software that can be different on different platforms?

What degree of OS-indepedence do you think is reasonable to expect from a consumer-facing benchmark suite like Geekbench?

Does that matter? I don't care of Apple's thread scheduler is faster or slower than Windows' or if their throttling algorithm behaves differently, I just want to see how it performs in a given task.

AFAIK it's mostly self-contained outside of basics like malloc. If you have any evidence to the contrary, post it.

I don’t either, but these are the only benchmarks Xiaomi provided!

Geekerwan has an excellent video [1] where they run the new Spec 2026 benchmark on the development board they received.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCCJuOopLK8

On the contrary, it is actually good. For all the hand wringing when someone’s favourite platform loses out on a Geekbench comparison, the benchmarks are quite consistent, even across platforms, and track SPEC results fairly accurately.

Of course it’s not perfect, but then, nothing is.