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Games are a reasonably good stress of a CPU in real life. Most modern bench's are really unrealistic unless you're buying CPUs for raw compute (e.g. 100% util

• kjs3 4y ago
  Games are a reasonably good stress of a CPU in real life. No they aren't. In 'real life', games, especially high resource games, are inconsequential compared to, say, performance of Excel, Word or web browsing for the overwhelmingly majority of users.
  • xanathar 4y ago
    That criteria would just say "every CPU is ok" because ultimately only potatoes are unfit to run those problems. And nobody wants a review website posting "just buy a Celeron or whatever costs less and be happy" for 15 years straight. On the other hand, measuring on, say, protein folding isn't likely to gather a lot of interest because most people are not buying laptops to run HPC research. So, ultimately the reason videogames (and video encoding, compression, image processing and a few other workloads) are chosen is because they are workloads where the CPU really makes a difference and is interesting to the average reader if not because it's their problem, at least because they are close enough to be understandable. (A separate 10 page post would be required to dig into the GPU role and impact of those tests)
  • mhh__ 4y ago
    Excel and word don't stress my machine, games do.