This is great info. Ok, I downloaded BruceX and ran the benchmarks in Final Cut Pro. I definitely have slower numbers than your results:
Pro Res 422 (default) - 16.09 secs
H264 - 19.10 secs
Also, as a test, I rebooted into the BIOS and went into the BIOS Advanced Memory Settings and changed Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P.)
off, and geekbench numbers obviously went down as well.
With X.M.P. Geekbench is 25,125
Without X.M.P. Geekbench is 23,797
(These are both with the CPU overclock)
I just wanted to see the performance number hit when turning off X.M.P. and it's fairly significant.
That tells me that a speed bump from 2666MHz RAM to 3600Mhz RAM could be the exact reasons for not only the slower Geekbench numbers, but it actually is slower real-world performance based on the BruceX results as well.
I may do a 3600Mhz RAM swap out to see if that gets similar ~30,000 geekbench numbers, without changing system identifiers, etc. Even thought the aircooler I bought makes updating RAM a pain, it might be worth it for +~5000 in performance in geekbench.
P.S. @jb007, if you can post the exact brand of 3600 RAM you purchased, maybe even with an Amazon link, I'd love to check it out in case I test out a RAM swap. Thanks!