John Poole, writing on the Geekbench blog:

The multi-core benchmark in Geekbench 7 has been redesigned to better reflect how real applications behave. Not every task in the real world is multi-threaded, and pretending otherwise distorts scores without telling you anything useful about your device.

In Geekbench 7, a workload only runs in multi-threaded mode if the task it models actually runs multi-threaded in real applications. For example, the HTML5 Browser test isn’t included in the multi-threaded suite because web browsers are single-threaded (or lightly threaded).

The result is a multi-core score that’s a more accurate, more useful, and more relevant measure of how your device performs the work you actually do.

This change has been a long time coming, and I am very happy to finally see it delivered.