Quote Originally Posted by hyc View Post
Thanks Dumo. But just to be certain, what if you ran your 8C and 4C tests at the exact same clock speeds? Then we should see 8C being exactly 2x 4C result, right? Or 4C result will be higher than proportional, due to no sharing overhead? What about 6C?
Never look at Cinebench reported clocks, just a hint

Dumo ran both 8C and 4C at the same 5418MHz clock shown in CPU-Z, it just happens that one of the runs he booted @4.49GHz from BIOS and then tweaked clocks to 5418MHz.