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If a game isn't relevant enough to port to new hardware, is it really relevant enough to benchmark with?

Yes because consumers want to know how the hardware performs for their existing catalog of games, many if not all of which won't be ported? Obviously depends on what you play etc

There's nothing wrong with reporting the level of performance you'll get for emulated games too, but the claim being made is that the hardware can't do better than that.

To make the headline accurate, you have to add a disclaimer, going from:

>Apple's new M1 Ultra isn't faster than an RTX 3090

to

>Apple's new M1 Ultra isn't faster than an RTX 3090 when running x86 games under emulation

Or, more comprehensively:

>Apple's new M1 Ultra isn't faster than an RTX 3090 when running x86 games under emulation or when directly comparing Geekbench scores

Actually, I think I see why they went with the shorter title.

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