Well, depends on what we want to measure with synthetic benchmarks but general terms like "processing power" are fair to be interpreted as general and common PC

Well, depends on what we want to measure with synthetic benchmarks but general terms like "processing power" are fair to be interpreted as general and common PC tasks that these benchmarks address. But yeah if your load is specific like floating point calc or mp4 encoding, then it will vary, but its a good shorthard to have these types of conversations, especially when people go half-cocked about how CPU progress has stalled which it clearly has not.