https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1050-Ti-vs-...
1: Userbenchmark.com is terrible and nobody should use it for anything. At least their CPU side of things is hopelessly bought & paid for by Intel (and even within the Intel lineup they give terrible & wrong advice), maybe the GPU side is better but I wouldn't count on it.
2: The real question there isn't "why is the 1050 Ti not faster?" it's "how did you run a 1050 Ti on MacOS in the first place, since Nvidia doesn't make MacOS drivers anymore and hasn't for a long time?"
To provide some elaboration on this: Their overall CPU score used to be 30% single, 60% quad, 10% multicore. Last year around the launch of zen 2 they gave it an update. Which makes sense; the increasing ability of programs to actually scale beyond four cores means that multicore should get more importance. And so they changed the influence of multicore numbers from 10% to... 2%. Not only was it a blatant and ridiculous move to hurt the scores of AMD chips, you got results like this, an i3 beating an i9 https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/jDJP8prZywSyLPesLtrak4-970...
And there was some suspicious dropping of zen 3 scores a week ago, too, it looks like.
And they added some "subjective" metric so even when an AMD CPU wins at every single test, the Intel one can still be ranked higher.
There's a reason they've been banned from most major subreddits. Including /r/Intel.
Most applications can only make use of a few CPU-heavy threads at a time, and these systems with with 18 cores will not make any difference for the average user. In fact, the 18 core behemoth might actually feel slower for regular desktop usage since it’s clocked lower.
If you are a pro with a CPU-heavy workflow that scales well with more threads, then you probably don’t need some consumer benchmark website to tell you that you need a CPU with more cores.
> In fact, the 18 core behemoth might actually feel slower for regular desktop usage since it’s clocked lower.
It has a similar turbo, it won't.
A quick inspection of the details tab in my task manager shows around 200 processes, only half of which are browser.
And starting a web browser with one page results in around half a dozen processes
Every user is now a multi-core user.
2. That’s a good question and I don’t have an answer for that.
As for a better source, I don't know with the M1 being so new, but that's no reason to accept bad data, if this benchmark actually is as bad as others here are saying.