While AMD's latest Ryzen 9000 Series CPUs didn't receive the best reception from gamers and enthusiasts, the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X remains one of the best CPUs for gaming and content creation.

Phoronix benchmarked AMD's latest Ryzen 9 9950X in five different Linux distros, including one featuring Intel optimizations, ...

However, it is still significantly higher than the 20,183 points scored by the 9950X. It is worth noting here that the M4 Pro has only 14 cores, while the Core Ultra 9 285K features 24 cores.

TL;DR: Apple's new M4 Max processor outperforms Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K and AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X in Geekbench 6 single-core benchmarks, despite having fewer cores and lower clock speed.