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captain_aggravated ,
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Hey finally some good news.

Aatube , (edited )
@Aatube@kbin.social avatar

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

Aatube ,
@Aatube@kbin.social avatar

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?

Rentlar ,

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.

JohnEdwa ,
@JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz avatar

...why the fuck does a program running a benchmark on my PC need a "free slot" to function?

Aatube ,
@Aatube@kbin.social avatar

My guess is uploading slots

IronKrill ,

It's crazy I had to scroll down this far to see a comment from someone that actually read the article.

BigDanishGuy ,

You guys read the articles? I just read the comments. Scrolling to here I've learned that:

  1. The founder of userbenchmark apparently started the site to allegedly manipulate stocks. Specifically Intel and AMD stocks.
  2. There's other sites than my goto sites from passmark.
  3. Some lemmings actually read the articles abd
  4. The website isn't really getting paywalled.
Aatube ,
@Aatube@kbin.social avatar

lemmings

Look again 😏

merthyr1831 ,

10 dollars a month to be told AMD is behind its competition based on vibes

just_change_it ,

YAY FREE ADVERTISEMENT LETS GO LOSERBENCHMARK!!!!11111

In all seriousness, these guys are ONLY the top google result because of all the "controversy." They do it for a reason. Every time i've seen a thread talking about them i've literally downvoted it because the only way to stop the cycle is to just let them die a slow death which as far as I can tell is never going to happen. Their business model is better than anybody talking about them, posting about them, or generating ad revenue from making articles about them. We're the clowns.

KairuByte ,
@KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

No. Wait. Stop.

Oha ,
@Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz avatar

good.

yamanii ,
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

Uh, I used it two times in the past, am shocked reading the replies here lol, where can I compare two cpus then?

mudeth ,

I default to nanoreview when I do a Google search. It's pretty comprehensive and easy to scan.

AMDIsOurLord ,

Go watch tech channels on YT, there are many great channels. Gamer's Nexus also has a website (completely ad free too) that has all of their benchmark results.

Also, Phoronix although it is Unix centric

ICastFist ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Go watch tech channels on YT

Having to sift through who knows how many videos to get information that could be a graphic with numbers? Yeah, no, thanks.

I find this site useful, it's part of Passmark - https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php

AMDIsOurLord ,

YouTube has a search function you know

Just search GN channel for the part you want to buy

It's much better than a narrow benchmark like PassMark and they show actual real world performance

ICastFist ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

If I want to compare part X with 3 others, I'll have to "watch" 4 videos. Give me the benchmark of each, plus the high/avg/low fps for a number of games and their settings, something Ars Technica does, and it'll take me less time to compare than it'll take to find the videos I "need" to watch.

AMDIsOurLord ,

... The videos have comparison charts, have you actually never watched one

And Ars is also a very good source

mods_are_assholes ,

passmark.com

Veneroso ,

User Menchmark?

banneryear1868 ,

That was the only reason to use the site lol other paid options are way better. All userbenchmarks was good for was giving you a rough idea that your hardware was performing as it was expected to.

johannesvanderwhales ,

It was kind of shitty but it was also useful for making sure that you didn't have some sort of configuration error that was negatively affecting performance. I'm sure they'll be replaced by something else though.

rickyrigatoni ,
@rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee avatar

Is anyone else bothered that the URL of this article turns the $ into the word "pound"?

rowrowrowyourboat ,

What's a good site to compare cpus and gpus?

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

Geekbench

rickyrigatoni ,
@rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee avatar

PassMark. The have cpubenchmark.net and videocardbenchmark.net

redfox ,
@redfox@infosec.pub avatar

That's a bold move cotton, let's see how it plays out for them...

Buddahriffic ,

Ah that's funny. Anyways, time to go back to forgetting that site is a thing.

systemglitch ,

It still works the same for me. This will likely be a non-issue for most people with how it is set up.

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