The ubiquitous "everyone knows". That certainly proves the point. But I guess if you cant offer real proof, you just up the ante and make even more extreme accusations.
Don't be obtuse. Human nature is the proof.
I wasn't making accusations, but merely pointing out the fact we are reliant on an extremely flawed system.
The point of these benchmarks should be to inform buyers, but how can they do that if they're totally unrealistic? They're skewed to make your hardware seem obsolete, and to show new hardware look better than it will be for the vast vast majority of consumers.
Who is playing AAA games with the best gpu available at 720p? No one...
Who is playing AAA games with the best gpu available at 1080p? Almost no one...
Combined, these make up a niche so small that it's statistically irrelevant! So, why are these the focus of cpu benchmarks?
Then you look at gpu benchmarks, and what do you see? All the games are tested on ultra, which have absurdly pointless levels of aa, post processing, tessellation, shadows, etc...The games are often also loaded with "features", cough gimpworks, that offer little to no increase in graphical fidelity, yet tank performance. Again, why?
Ask yourself this. "Do you really think nvidia is paying engineers,and the studios, to load games with gameworks out of the goodness of their heart"? No? I didn't think so. There's obviously some sort of profit incentive in it for them.
What we consider to be "reviews" are little more than advertisements.
It's like hoping the mainstream media will do real journalism. They are told what and how to report the "news". There was never any real chance for objective reporting to occur.
It's past time we stop acting like drones from a cult, and start questioning what lies at the core of our beliefs.