AMD Zen3 Geekbench lower than expected after swapping chips

AMD Zen3 Geekbench lower than expected after swapping chips

I recently cross graded from a 3900X to a 5600X. I did this for a couple reasons and am genuinely happy with the chip. The single core performance bump comes in handy with gaming in windows and I don't mind the extra time when to encode videos in macos. My problem is this:

When I had the 3900X in this machine the geekbench scores were largely the same in windows and mac and in line with what you would expect for a 12c/24t chip in a SFF case with not a great cooler.

Now that I put the 5600X in the same machine, the geekbench scores are appreciably lower in MacOS but in windows they are inline with what you'd expect from the geekbench browser for this chip.

Specs are: OC 0.7.2, Big Sur 11.6, MSI B450I Gaming M motherboard, 2x8GB 2933Mhz Ram, 5700XT.

Things I've tried: shutting down any apps that are running before running geekbench, making sure all disk indexing has finished. Closing any background helpers using activity monitor.

Has anyone run into this before? Any thoughts? I know it's AMD and they behave weird.

Wait. I think I just Rubber Duck'd this. I never updated my <CoreCount> in the config when I switched the chip.

If I don't come back to this post, assumed that fixed it and I'll leave this post up in case it helps anyone else. If this is the cause, I'm surprised it boots at all.

UPDATE:fixed the config.plist. Same behavior. Any ideas are welcome!

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