Quote Originally Posted by Calmatory View Post
Spec* numbers are not lies. They're quite accurate for the workloads they benchmark.
Correction, All benchmarks are only approximations based on several assumptions.

To date, there is yet to be one valid benchmark on predicting user experience improvement.

A benchmark that is good at predicting performance at some tasks are often terrible at predicting performance for other tasks. [Numeric analysis often requires features and additions that are considerably expensive in terms of transistors. That would negatively effect all other scientific calculations.]