

Hopefully, this will discourage other websites of the following suit. But communities like r/AMD have taken a good step in protecting newbie system builders by warning against unreliable sources. We’ll never know why UserBenchmark chose to show botched result and chose to respond the way they did.The difference is transparent testing method and comparison. Even review websites and Youtubers do the same. Typically such websites earn money from advertisements and Amazon Affiliation sale. While some may show results as the way performance is, UsernBenchmark traps novice users with little-to-know knowledge of components performance. From there onwards, its intention varies from site-to-site. Ratings like UserBenchmark rely on aggressive search-engine optimization to stay on top of the search results- and it is very good at doing that. I am saying this i a terrible and unprofessional way to do it. I am not saying nobody has tried to pull a fast one. AMD, Nvidia and Intel have been on a receiving end of that practise from time-to-time. While it seems that way to a lot of people, I seriously doubt if Intel will engage in this mud fight just to score a brownie point in fanboy wars. Some suggest UserBenchmark is receiving remuneration from Intel in exchange for botched results.Many questions and theories with no answers.TweakTown, Techspot, TomsHardware and others have called out UserBenchmark’s shenanigans since its change., pointing its biasedness towards Intel. UserBenchmark’s shenanigans are well documented.

A post from the Automod educates the user of the problem with the results displayed in the website and the way it chose to respond. Ignoring it with a casual ‘take a health pinch of salt’ message doesn’t help people who seek advice and take the reference link’s word for it. Personally, this is the best way forward as having a blanket ban does not help to explain the problem. This comment has NOT been removed – this is just a notice. The organization that runs it also lies and accuses critics of being “anonymous call center shills”.

UserBenchmark is a terrible source for benchmarks, as they’re not representative of real-world performance. The AutoMod will post the following message: Instead of banning or inaction about the information from UserBenchmark, it has an AutoMod command warning people from taking its recommendations. R/AMD seem to have taken a balanced and healthier approach. The link comes with an auto disclaimer in r/AMD
