Is userbenchmark trustworthy?

[Fat Cat11997]

I've heard a lot of mixed info about whether or not userbenchmark is biased, and i just want to hear a second opinion. Thanks!

[Shimejii]

Nope. Never use it, straight up garbage site. They are Misleading and wrong a ton, Malicious, and VERY untrustworthy

[BiotechBen]

If you have an IDENTICAL system to someone else there: possibly. GENERALLY, the answer is no. Not even close. 

[WereCat]

They are just a meme

[dogwitch]

very much no.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

no

[Eigenvektor]

Does this look like something a neutral site would say in their comparisons?

[RONOTHAN##]

 

TL;DR: No, they are not trustworthy in the slightest. 

[okkee]

1 hour ago, Fat Cat11997 said:

I've heard a lot of mixed info about whether or not userbenchmark is biased, and i just want to hear a second opinion. Thanks!

very difficult to find a site that's good for benchmark resul. but the most untrustworthy ones are those that do no real testing. like, just click your hardware and get some random score. 

[Average Nerd]

2 hours ago, Fat Cat11997 said:

I've heard a lot of mixed info about whether or not userbenchmark is biased, and i just want to hear a second opinion. Thanks!

Heavily biased, don't use it.

[freeagent]

6 hours ago, okkee said:

very difficult to find a site that's good for benchmark resul.

HWBOT.. but the results you would see for the most part are not from stock machines.

[BahnStormer]

That website is an meme of blinkered bias and should be avoided unless you know what to expect... easily the best example of a well polished, well engineered utter turd.

 

If I'm feeling very lazy, I occasionally use it for comparing two similar nVidia / Intel products with each other, but they are blindly anti-AMD - most blatantly on the CPU front.

 

Use TechPowerup if you want some quick, reliable stats and basic comparisons of GPUs with each other (note for CPU searched, they return two results for each CPU - the review and the CPU DB entry).

 

...or  look up HardwareUnboxed on YouTube for some reasonably sound, balanced, rational reviews...

 

e.g. of UserBenchmark's blinkered bias are pretty easy to spot on anything where they criticise Ryzen 7000 power consumption, but ignore that AMD market on peak power, while Intel only put the starting power in the headline... actual boost power is 2x to 3x higher.... 
Or when they go into laughable rants about how over-hyped some of the AMD products are and how AMD uses underhand marketing tactics to try to gain market share.... but ignores Intel's desperate anti-competitive practices when Ryzen was starting to gain traction: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_4570

 

"With today’s decision, we are re-imposing a €376.36 million fine on Intel for having abused its dominant position in the computer chips market. Intel paid its customers to limit, delay or cancel the sale of products containing computer chips of its main rival. This is illegal under our competition rules. Our decision shows the Commission’s commitment to ensure that very serious antitrust breaches do not go unsanctioned.

EU Commissioner Didier Reynders, in charge of competition policy

 

[Poinkachu]

9 hours ago, Fat Cat11997 said:

I've heard a lot of mixed info about whether or not userbenchmark is biased, and i just want to hear a second opinion. Thanks!

Those who like slanted bias review likes it and might defend it to the death.

Those who aren't not gonna touch it, not even with a 15ft pole.

[BahnStormer]

20 minutes ago, Poinkachu said:

Those who like slanted bias review likes it and might defend it to the death.

Those who aren't not gonna touch it, not even with a 15ft pole.

I dunno.... I'm not in either of those camps: I actually like to have a look at it every now and again... but largely for a blend of comedy value and morbid curiosity.

I would not trust anything that compares AMD to anything else... expect mind-bending levels of bias.... and those with limit common sense will have their minds bent to the point of believing it.