It has a very specific point: communicating performance to people who don't know hardware. Most consumers are software aware, not hardware aware. They care wha

It has a very specific point: communicating performance to people who don't know hardware. Most consumers are software aware, not hardware aware. They care what they will use the hardware for, not what they can use it for. To that end, benchmarks that correlate with their experience are more useful than a tuned BLAS implementation.