This is a net win. Now they won’t be recommended to everyone trying to do hardware comparisons. The bias in their results has pretty much made them worthless as a source since Ryzen released.
Unfortunately the subscription appears to be for their benchmarking tool only, not for website access.
Aren’t these the people that straight up manipulated data to make AMD look worse than Intel or something wild?
Yeah that’s the guy. Hilarious to see he thinks his garbage biased opinion is worth any amount of money.
Yup. They’ve always done it, both on the CPU and GPU side, but especially on the CPU side.
Aren’t these the same guys that have a stick up their ass about AMD and/or they get paid by Intel to be biased?
The exact same ones yes.
So spend money to get bad info, sick.
I know the admins have unquestionable integrity (they certainly pretend as much) so surely they are going to retroactively pay every user who contributed their benchmarks for free. Right? When should I expect my first royalty check?
Ah, yes, the guy that obviously put a lot of money into intel shares or attempting to short AMD right around the launch of Zen architecture and got so butthurt about his poor investment that he started actively falsifying data and writing ridiculous unhinged reviews of amd products to make intel look better.
Nothing of value has been lost
Right so clearly userbenchmark is trash, but where could one, hypothetically, go, to, hypothetically, compare the performance of various cpus, hypothetically?
I like nanoreview https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare
The phoronix testing site can be alright, if a little haphazard and spotty
Phoronix is excellent in that not only does it document all of the testing procedures, they provide instructions on how to replicate everything, and using the Phoronix Test Suite allows you to replicate all the tests locally.
It’s much more comprehensive than most of the other sites.
I don’t mean actual phoronix articles, I mean their user score aggregator thing that is a little hard to understand
Yes, their scoring tool. Which is dead simple to use and explains the rest set up so it can be replicated.
Of all the things to try and monetize with a subscription…
Who’s more brain damaged, the site owner or the people that actually pay for it?
Yes.
Oh no! I won’t be able to see crappy biased comparisons and benchmarks…
That don’t actually work. My system can tell what memory I have, but you can’t? Fuck that website
My system can tell what memory I have, but you can’t?
Wait, I’m confused about this. Are you upset the site can’t tell what RAM you have. Because I’m pretty certain there is no way a site could tell that.
You give it permissions to scan. It can tell what processor, MB, and GPU I have. But not memory? Or can’t clock the speed? It’s a crap matrix to measure your computer’s performance and useless. It’s just an elitist score board. A working rig is good enough. We all want the next big thing.
I mean it just depends what the browser reports https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/deviceMemory
$10 for falsified informatiom?
10$ to eat shit? Sign me in!
And nothing of value was lost…
Why on earth do they have a monthly subscription on something people maybe use once every 1 or two years?
Who is actually going to pay a netflix sub to see marginally bad data that often?
Like Netflix I understand if you cannot help yourself.
But is there a band of computer nerds out there, that I don’t know about, that want play by play updates on how a graphics card is preforming compared to others? On a monthly basis?
Being a number nerd, I can see the appeal for something like this (extremely bad quality of data aside), or at least I do frequently visit OpenBenchmarkin.org (similar concept than UserBenchmark, but open source).
I also know 1 person who is obsseded with constantly buying/selling parts for their PC, and for whatever reason still uses UB after I told them how shit it is.
My guess is that this will also resonate with some Intel fanboys.
All of this is more of an exception to the rule, but they need just a few bunch of people subscribing to generate more profit than before.
Hey finally some good news.
The fee is only for their benchmarking software, whose results get uploaded to the website.
only a limited unspecified number of users can test for free at any one time, and if no slots are open, then only subscribers to the $10-per-year Pro plan can test
When there are free slots, users will have to complete a 3D captcha minigame where the goal is to shoot down 13 ships. The minigame isn’t particularly difficult on the surface, but it can get very tedious as there are very few opportunities for users to actually shoot down any ships. We attempted to complete the captcha ourselves but gave up after a few minutes
The ship minigame actually isn’t too hard. You do have to realize that the side panels are radars. However, it requires at least 15 minutes of time at first sight, just for a benchmark?
Once we reach the second threshold, to confirm you’re not a bot and submit a benchmark you need to beat Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.
Once we reach the third threshold, to confirm you are a sadistic gamer and submit a benchmark, you need to play through all 326 paths of Shadow The Hedgehog on an online GameCube emulator in this window.
…why the fuck does a program running a benchmark on my PC need a “free slot” to function?
My guess is uploading slots
It’s crazy I had to scroll down this far to see a comment from someone that actually read the article.
You guys read the articles? I just read the comments. Scrolling to here I’ve learned that:
- The founder of userbenchmark apparently started the site to allegedly manipulate stocks. Specifically Intel and AMD stocks.
- There’s other sites than my goto sites from passmark.
- Some lemmings actually read the articles abd
- The website isn’t really getting paywalled.
lemmings
Look again 😏
The enshitification will continue until all are poor and desolate.
This site was grossly misleading at best, and commonly actively hostile to accurate information. Making it so less people can read the bad information has made the world better.
Can’t enshitificate what was already shit to begin with
