Agreed. I'd like to see the same benchmark run with Varnish + Apache. No W3Cache, No Nginx. I'd bet this synthentic benchmark would show the same performance,

Agreed. I'd like to see the same benchmark run with Varnish + Apache. No W3Cache, No Nginx. I'd bet this synthentic benchmark would show the same performance, meaning it's all just hitting Varnish anyway.