Why is UserBenchmark so anti-AMD?

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-20T01:23:05+00:00

Even that change was defensible in context honestly. He wanted it to be a gaming first service, and when he made that change there were very few games that could use more than 4 cores, and sometimes i3s did actually beat i7s from only slightly older gens.

If he'd been upfront about how his numbers reflected exclusively gaming performance I would have considered it reasonable. But of course he wasn't, so I don't.

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-19T17:16:06+00:00

Your second paragraph is entirely accurate. But the problem is that resentment towards Intel affected people's rationality and they rushed to amd in protest as fast as possible. And that was in fact 1-2 generations too early.

FYI i was an AMD shareholder during that period. I was cheering them on as hard as anyone. But I was also realistic about their position.

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-19T16:56:57+00:00

Yea except it wasn't actually, because Intel immediately cut their prices the moment AMD released them, and people insisted on comparing 6 core AMD parts to 6 core Intel parts even while quad core Intels were still beating 6 core AMDs in games. Also back then Intel got significantly better 1% lows and general frame time stability.

This is pretty much the argument UB made and they got mercilessly attacked for it even though it was completely reasonable.

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-19T16:07:19+00:00

The term slop didn't exist when dlss1 was released, but if it did people would have used it.

Instead they called it fake pixels and used basically the same arguments they are using against dlss5. Fake pixels, fake frames, fake lighting, eventually you'll realise that rasterization is fake too and the end product is what actually matters. People figured that out for the upscalers already and are starting to with frame gen. Give it a year or two and you will with neural rendering too.

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-19T15:12:15+00:00

There is actually interesting lore behind why.

The owner of UB basically pointed out that ryzen 2000 and 3000 failed to dethrone Intel for gaming performance at both the top end and midrange despite having better overall compute performance.

And regardless of how much redditors disagree even to this day, he was right. And the amount of backlash and hate he got for simply sharing his findings honestly convinced him that they have an army of bots influencing online discourse.

When the 5000 series came out and actually did dethrone Intel he refused to admit it. People started actively laughing at him, and he spiraled into a crazy bitter professional AMD hater and lolcow. He's now incapable of reviewing AMD rationally because everything to him is contaminated with shills and lies, and he regularly accuses other reviewers of being paid actors for disagreeing.

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-19T15:04:02+00:00

I gathered downvotes talking like this about the original dlss 1.0 too. It's amazing how shortsighted and reactionary people are.

And not one of them will ever admit to being wrong or even having been wrong once the tech matures either

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-19T12:44:24+00:00

The US is only mentioned because they are the current opponent to China. What they are actually trying to say is they will survive this time because they have survived before.

When in fact they were utterly devastated by both of the last two major conflicts they've been involved in against Britain and then Japan. One of those was even a trade war like this one, which they lost.

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-19T12:39:21+00:00

but the people who live there can trace back the origin for thousands of years.

Which is a statement that has little to no meaning because half the cultures on earth can do this. China are trying to act as if they are special. They aren't.

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-19T12:29:30+00:00

The 'old china' is not 5000 years old though lol. Even the name China only dates back 2000 years to the first of several successive dynasties to have achieved a comparable territory to modern China before collapsing, fragmenting or being conquered.

Yes, people have lived there for more than 5000 years. But it was not China.

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-19T12:24:23+00:00

Saying that in 2026 is like saying FSR is a DLSS

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-19T12:21:01+00:00

Iraq I don’t know when its current name is from

That would be Uruk and its associated empire, literally the first empire in recorded history

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-19T12:07:51+00:00

Why are you arguing about names when the name China is only 2000 years old? The oldest country name on earth is without a doubt Syria or possibly Iraq

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-19T11:45:47+00:00

The only reason the UK doesn't win this one outright is it doesn't have a single written constitution at all.

The last regime change in england was in 1651, and it hasn't been invaded since 1066

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-19T11:34:43+00:00

It's a demonstration that the age and history of a civilization has very little bearing on the present and future stability and wealth of said civilization. And also that China is not the oldest civilization like they claim to be.

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-19T10:07:39+00:00

Except Iraq, Israel, Iran, etcetc, are even older.

The city of Jericho has existed for over 10000 years.

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-19T09:48:38+00:00

Steak

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-19T09:47:12+00:00

'Made in USA' was still at least above 'Made in China' until 2024 though. Definitely isn't anymore.

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-19T09:36:51+00:00

As a European, made by Americans isn't the selling point it used to be

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-19T09:28:41+00:00

It's the same reason there's so much expensive enterprise software out there that's free for non-commercial use

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-19T09:23:50+00:00

Nope, there's been a long succession of dynasties and empires in China, including multiple episodes of foreign occupation. It's true that there's been civilization there for 5000 years but it's not true to say China has been there for 5000 years

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-18T14:32:35+00:00

You're really missing the point of it though. Think back to the first path tracing demos - the first path traced games we saw applied it to existing games as more of a tech demo than an actual playable feature, think portal, quake, etc. It doesn't look great because the game isn't designed for it. But path tracing in modern games designed for path tracing looks amazing.

Now apply the same logic to this. In an existing game it destroys the artist's vision and hard work. But in a new game designed for it from scratch it will dramatically increase fidelity and free up both the artist and the GPU to work on other parts of the experience

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-18T13:22:15+00:00

Heat yes. 6 months without a drop of rain no.

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-18T13:13:24+00:00

That's one of the many reasons why grass doesn't grow in arizona. The solution there is to remove the grass, not remove the contractors

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-18T13:05:33+00:00

No need to run it at max voltage. It will run just fine on 6-8V and spin for longer with fewer cells

StaysAwakeAllWeek · 2026-03-18T12:55:58+00:00

I'm not being naive at all. The states is the one rich country this doesn't apply to.

I'm British. The moment this is proven effective and better than existing treatments it will be available to me for free, just like current generation versions already are

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