Reporting on what UserBenchmark thinks is like reporting on what "TheOnion" thinks.
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2024
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The funny thing is that UserBenchmark's "passion" for Intel doesn't seem to be motivated by financial concerns, this seems to be an obsession of sorts by the site's management. They've been discounting AMD in rather convoluted ways at least as far back as the late 2010s (around the time Zen was released).
I am genuinely curious to find the full story behind this.
I forget the actual GPUs being compared, but was looking at a UserBenchmark comparison of a NVIDIA vs Arc card, and the review blurb at the bottom was a rant about AMD cards...
They are truly commited to their intel fandom .
In a way, I respect this more than corpo-shills who do not have an opinion at all.
There is an abstract beauty about their dedication. It's like a good art house movie about the inherent contradictions in life; except the topic at hand is nerdy electronics company drama BS.
Not to mention with Intel's stability issues on their recent chips and the hoops people had to go through and are still going through to get sorted out, it's going to take an equally bad fuck up from AMD for me to the compare them again.
Probably owns Intel stock or is shorting AMD
To be fair Intels aggressive marketing of failing chips and terrible remediations is contributing to AMDs success right now
Wait, UserBenchmark is not a shitposting meme site? They actually present their reviews as serious?
Everyone in the tech community knows they're a joke. But they still own top spots on Google if you try to find a specific CPU's benchmarks so it's a bit of a problem .
I found them when looking for a gaming laptop to buy. A model that was regarded by everyone to be a solid mid range, with a strong cost to performance ratio and sensible cost reducing compromises, was reviewed by UB as the worst thing ever. Their review was a complete outlier and awfully childish and filled with gratuitous insults and aggressive gamer slang language. I ended up buying that laptop and it's exactly what others claimed, a solid mid performer. I blocked them from my results ever since. I can imagine who their core audience and community is, and it's exactly the kind of place I never want to visit.
Hey just so you know, userbench has been INSANELY anti AMD for years and years