Ah that's funny. Anyways, time to go back to forgetting that site is a thing.
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10 dollars a month to be told AMD is behind its competition based on vibes
It still works the same for me. This will likely be a non-issue for most people with how it is set up.
Hey finally some good news.
Uh, I used it two times in the past, am shocked reading the replies here lol, where can I compare two cpus then?
passmark.com
Go watch tech channels on YT, there are many great channels. Gamer's Nexus also has a website (completely ad free too) that has all of their benchmark results.
Also, Phoronix although it is Unix centric
Go watch tech channels on YT
Having to sift through who knows how many videos to get information that could be a graphic with numbers? Yeah, no, thanks.
I find this site useful, it's part of Passmark - https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php
YouTube has a search function you know
Just search GN channel for the part you want to buy
It's much better than a narrow benchmark like PassMark and they show actual real world performance
If I want to compare part X with 3 others, I'll have to "watch" 4 videos. Give me the benchmark of each, plus the high/avg/low fps for a number of games and their settings, something Ars Technica does, and it'll take me less time to compare than it'll take to find the videos I "need" to watch.
... The videos have comparison charts, have you actually never watched one
And Ars is also a very good source
I default to nanoreview when I do a Google search. It's pretty comprehensive and easy to scan.
And nothing of value was lost...
It was kind of shitty but it was also useful for making sure that you didn't have some sort of configuration error that was negatively affecting performance. I'm sure they'll be replaced by something else though.
Oh no! I won't be able to see crappy biased comparisons and benchmarks...
That don't actually work. My system can tell what memory I have, but you can't? Fuck that website
My system can tell what memory I have, but you can’t?
Wait, I'm confused about this. Are you upset the site can't tell what RAM you have. Because I'm pretty certain there is no way a site could tell that.
You give it permissions to scan. It can tell what processor, MB, and GPU I have. But not memory? Or can't clock the speed? It's a crap matrix to measure your computer's performance and useless. It's just an elitist score board. A working rig is good enough. We all want the next big thing.
I mean it just depends what the browser reports https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/deviceMemory
No. Wait. Stop.
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Ah, yes, the guy that obviously put a lot of money into intel shares or attempting to short AMD right around the launch of Zen architecture and got so butthurt about his poor investment that he started actively falsifying data and writing ridiculous unhinged reviews of amd products to make intel look better.
Right so clearly userbenchmark is trash, but where could one, hypothetically, go, to, hypothetically, compare the performance of various cpus, hypothetically?
The phoronix testing site can be alright, if a little haphazard and spotty
Phoronix is excellent in that not only does it document all of the testing procedures, they provide instructions on how to replicate everything, and using the Phoronix Test Suite allows you to replicate all the tests locally.
It's much more comprehensive than most of the other sites.
I don’t mean actual phoronix articles, I mean their user score aggregator thing that is a little hard to understand
Yes, their scoring tool. Which is dead simple to use and explains the rest set up so it can be replicated.
openbenchmarking.org
Passmark's site isn't too bad either, cpubenchmark.net
The fee is only for their benchmarking software, whose results get uploaded to the website.
only a limited unspecified number of users can test for free at any one time, and if no slots are open, then only subscribers to the $10-per-year Pro plan can test
When there are free slots, users will have to complete a 3D captcha minigame where the goal is to shoot down 13 ships. The minigame isn’t particularly difficult on the surface, but it can get very tedious as there are very few opportunities for users to actually shoot down any ships. We attempted to complete the captcha ourselves but gave up after a few minutes
It's crazy I had to scroll down this far to see a comment from someone that actually read the article.
You guys read the articles? I just read the comments. Scrolling to here I've learned that:
- The founder of userbenchmark apparently started the site to allegedly manipulate stocks. Specifically Intel and AMD stocks.
- There's other sites than my goto sites from passmark.
- Some lemmings actually read the articles abd
- The website isn't really getting paywalled.
lemmings
Look again 😏
...why the fuck does a program running a benchmark on my PC need a "free slot" to function?
My guess is uploading slots
The ship minigame actually isn't too hard. You do have to realize that the side panels are radars. However, it requires at least 15 minutes of time at first sight, just for a benchmark?
Once we reach the second threshold, to confirm you're not a bot and submit a benchmark you need to beat Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.
Once we reach the third threshold, to confirm you are a sadistic gamer and submit a benchmark, you need to play through all 326 paths of Shadow The Hedgehog on an online GameCube emulator in this window.
Nothing of value has been lost
Is anyone else bothered that the URL of this article turns the $ into the word "pound"?
That was the only reason to use the site lol other paid options are way better. All userbenchmarks was good for was giving you a rough idea that your hardware was performing as it was expected to.
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