CineBench mystery

[Keod2]

Why is my Cinebench running my Processor at 3.5Ghz rather than my overclock which I run?

 

[Stuen4y]

Because it is not. See the CPU-Z, it shows the higher than default frequency. Cinebench does not always detect the actual frequency.

 

[mmj_uk]

Some programs don't see your overclock so they will still say @3.5ghz.

 

[smilertoo]

8.99 isn't a stock 4770k score.

 

[joeyjojo]

As the others have said, most programs just read the CPU ID and look up the specs from a list. Very few (CPUZ is one) actually ask the motherboard for the numbers.

 

[Annihilation]

Yeah this is annoying but not an issue.

 

[Phixsator]

Cinebench could read the mhz of my fx-8350 but cant read my haswell. Guess its pretty normal.

 

[Nuclear Fusion]

As said above, many programs like Cinebench and 3DM only read stock speeds when displaying it but the CPU is running at your overclock as seen from the score and CPU-Z.

 

[ZXSpectrum]

Its Cinebench... Great on the older systems but not on the latest stuff. For instance it seems to have a really big problem with PCIe Gen3. I can run a Titan Black on a system and at stock on 4930k and I get 120+FPS with v15 but with version 11.5 it seems to drop the PCIe to gen1.1 and gives about 50fps.. I have even tried the force gen 3 from NVidia and it still does the same.