Userbenchmark - the April Fools that never ends
2kliksphilip1 HN recommender · recommended in 1 month, 2021-2024
2.5M views · 5 years ago · commentary · dated
2kliksphilip examines UserBenchmark, a hardware comparison site known for strongly biased, pro-Intel writing. The video explains the site's credibility problems and points viewers to better sources for CPU and GPU information.
HN uses it as the go-to link to warn people not to trust UserBenchmark for hardware comparisons.
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5 comments from Hacker News
Do not use userbenchmark for speed comparison. Ever. They are not user based. They are essentially a marketing scheme by Intel to make AMD look bad. Just search userbenchmark on YouTube and the first suggestion will be `userbenchmark bias`. See 2kliksphilip video about them ▶ this video
Userbenchmark are an incredibly biased website towards Intel (vs. AMD), so much so that the Intel subreddit banned them. This is less obvious in how they change the weighting of the benchmark, but their AMD reviews are downright comedic, where everyone but them it bought by AMD and they are the last bastion of honesty. They might actually be more anti-AMD than pro-Intel, considering GPU reviews before Intel entered the market are also always 3/4 complaining that AMD bought everyone off. See also: Userbenchmark - the April Fools that never ends (2kliksphilip) ▶ this video
It has been a while since I saw anyone send a Userbenchmark link. Userbenchmark is not a site with a good reputation, you can find many reasons online why this is, but I guess the site moderators just ignore it by pretending it's "Advanced Marketing", meanwhile even the CPU competitor of AMD has banned the site from their subreddit, one of my favorite explanation ▶ this video but there are of course more recent ones.
Here's some obligatory information about the credibility of UserBenchmark (video form only, unfortunately): ▶ this video
What's even stranger is that they were actually favourable to 1st gen Ryzen processors when they came out. On their 1800x review[0] they call it: "A very welcome shake-up of the CPU market" Then they did a complete 180 when AMD actually shook up the CPU market. Perhaps the site's owner changed? There's a great video about the site here for those who are curious: ▶ this video 0: link