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Reality Versus Benchmark

How hardware makers lure you with no-name benchmarks

Jakub Jirak
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10 min readApr 16, 2024

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Enter a world where technology rules and every step into the digital universe brings new adventures and trials. In an age where performance and efficiency are king and queen, one brave explorer discovers the truth behind the shiny promises and tempting specs. James, a technology connoisseur and tireless seeker of the truth, embarks on a journey of discovery, testing and personal experience to uncover what lies behind manufacturers’ promises of endless performance.

His story takes us into the depths of synthetic benchmarks that promise more than they deliver and exposes the hidden weaknesses of the latest processors that begin to stumble under long-term load. Jacob’s journey is full of technical twists and turns, from uncovering problematic processors to finding a reliable alternative to replace his trusted workhorse. Join him on this daring excursion into a world where reality and reality often don’t go hand in hand, and see if it’s possible to find a technology that doesn’t succumb to promises on paper but can withstandthe…

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Jakub Jirak
Predict

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