Doug S (foo.delete@this.bar.bar) on November 23, 2020 12:03 pm wrote:
> Chester (lamchester.delete@this.gmail.com) on November 22, 2020 8:33 pm wrote:
> > There's a reason SPEC isn't popular among review sites. No one cares about it.
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> Wow, so you mean a benchmark you have to pay for, and do some work to get running is less popular than
> pre-packaged benchmarks you can download for free and are mostly co-branded with commercial products?

I mean, you have to pay for it, and it's flawed (see other post). So no surprise it's not popular.

Sometimes reviewers are willing to pay for a benchmark because it does something useful. Guru3d for example, has AIDA64 to run memory synthetics because they don't have an in-house bw/latency test, and such microbenchmarks can reveal things about the hardware being tested.

> If you are surprised by this, you are probably also surprised that OEM PCs
> ship with crapware and that Amazon's own products top its sales lists.

I'm not sure where you're going with this. Why buy a benchmark when it's not telling you anything useful, and you can present more relevant data by directly testing programs people use?