News UserBenchmark bashes AMD GPUs and claims they lack real-world performance

[stuff and nonesense]

I think their reviews are somewhat vague, but reading the 9070xt review I don't see a lot of negatives about "that" card. They claim "Excellent consistency" and "Outstanding average bench". Isn't that a terrific review?

You need to read the summary before that beginning “If you are considering an AMD 9000 series GPU because you have been influenced by Reddit, Twitter or a wealthy tech YouTuber, it’s worth understanding AMD’s track record.”

Anyone reading that would be put off …

 

[Gururu]

You need to read the summary before that beginning “If you are considering an AMD 9000 series GPU because you have been influenced by Reddit, Twitter or a wealthy tech YouTuber, it’s worth understanding AMD’s track record.”

Anyone reading that would be put off …

Have you read the 5070 ti review? Basically the whole summary says DONT BUY. And dont forget the card specific "Terrible consistency" it got slapped with.

 

[BFG-9000]

People don't seem to remember that in the early days, Tom's Hardware was one of the most blatantly Intel and nVidia biased review sites around, and back then there were many more review sites. Infamously, when ATI had literally double the performance of the highest-end GeForce 4, Thomas Pabst himself titled his article "ATI Radeon 9700 Pro - Pretender To The Throne" and downplayed its pioneering support of DX9 as a useless "victory on paper." Just because a site is biased does not mean it is worthless.

There were a number of times where ATI/AMD held the performance crown but that did not coincide with when they had more marketshare than nVidia. You can see at the time even the mighty 9700 Pro came close but did not help outsell nVidia when they lamely countered with the FX 5800 (yes, the noisy Dustbuster):

Of course this is for add-on boards only, since if you include IGP as well then there were many more times AMD outsold nVidia, given nVidia exited the chipset and IGP market back in 2010 after abnormally high failure rates for GeForce 6100/6150 chipsets due to the selection of improper solder. But then it should be no surprise that Intel outsells both.

 

[Kreploon9]

I moved from a 5800X3D with DDR4 3733mhz to 14th gen Intel 14600K with 7000mhz DDR5 so I would have overall better times with my 7900 XTX, it made little difference overall.

Where the 14th gen really showed it's strengths for me though was emulation and games that do not use 3D cache much.

Still it is debatable if an AM5 upgrade could have been better, I feel I got my monies worth on 1th gen.

UB is just a rubbish site and has been for years.

 

[m7dm7d]

For anyone that missed it on the UB comparison page between the 5070Ti and 9070XT, look at the "Value & Sentiment" comparison where the zealot claims the Nvidia GPU literally has "infinity better" value.

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-5070-Ti-vs-AMD-RX-9070-XT/4181vsm2395341

The question mark button next to it leads to a page saying : "...the percentage of total user submit benchmarks for a given product..."

 

[m7dm7d]

And all that without any technical documents stating their tests. At this point that one paragraph should be considered, what it is, spin. Posted by an "influencer".

The video recordings on their youtube channel are their documents as I understand.

 

[dalauder]

From your link

Now explain to the rest of us how having more than 4 cores helps your grandma read her emails better.....
For the general user anything above 4 cores is basically useless, they are gonna need it once a year if they have to decompress something.
Even for a gamer the first 4 cores are the most important.
The 14100 gets you 134FPS avg, you have to be a hardcore user to think that you need more than that.
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-i3-14100/15.html


Bottom line, userbenchmark isn't for the hardcore fanatic enthusiast, it's for the average joe that needs something to do their basic computing on.

If it's not a real benchmark, it's misrepresenting itself then. And it still isn't reasonably placing AMD Ryzen 3 CPUs next to the Intel Core 3's that Grandma actually needs.

 

[dalauder]

No it's accurate. NVIDIA had better stat cards already made and just were not releasing them yet until they saw what AMD was going to do and then they released their better cards. AMD doesn't even come close to the software side of it and they are completely lacking in all of the other products that Nvidia brings to the table. They do make cheap cards though with cheap components that underperform what Nvidia makes.

How many AMD cards have you owned? People like to criticize the software, but it never made me log into an "Experience" to edit my settings. It's different, but I didn't see an improvement in functionality switching from an RX 480 to RTX 2080 Ti.

 

[HardwiredWireless]

How many AMD cards have you owned? People like to criticize the software, but it never made me log into an "Experience" to edit my settings. It's different, but I didn't see an improvement in functionality switching from an RX 480 to RTX 2080 Ti.

4 in the past and one at present on an old system that is used as a security system.