>People do not run a single benchmark tool when comparing hardware, they use multiple.
Most Youtubers base the performance of the CPU on Cinebench. They definitely aren't Anandtech, where CPU is measured with SPEC.
>Cinebench is part of almost every hardware review for a good reason: its characteristics (CPU only, not dependent on cache, memory speeds nor timings) are well understood and provide valuable information on a specific aspect of the hardware.
Cinebench is being used as an end all CPU benchmark too often. Just look at the author I replied to.
Again, if one were to use one single benchmark to denote the performance of a CPU, they should use SPEC. Absent of SPEC, they should use Geekbench. Cinebench is pretty far down the list.
