If you’re reviving a Pentium 4 build or arguing with an old-school overclocker, fire up Geekbench 2. The numbers may be old, but they still tell the truth — just a slower, simpler truth.
Because GB2’s workloads were smaller, it often favored CPUs with fast single-core speed but weak memory controllers (like the NetBurst architecture of Pentium 4s). Modern benchmarks penalize those CPUs for cache misses. cpu gb2