UserBenchmark

UserBenchmark
Website type
Computer hardware ranking charts
ProductsComputer benchmarking tool
Websitewww.userbenchmark.com

UserBenchmark (UserBenchmark.com) is a computer benchmarking website that provides users with performance scores for various hardware components. It offers user-submitted reviews and dedicated tools to evaluate and compare the performance of individual components based on system tests. Its controversial opinions and perceived biases in its computer hardware rankings against AMD products have drawn criticism in the tech press. UserBenchmark.com is distinct from Userbenchmark.org, which explicitly states that it is not affiliated with UserBenchmark.com.

Features

UserBenchmark.com is a website which offers a benchmarking program to run on the user's PC and then allows them to upload the results on the website. The website provides performance comparisons for CPUs, GPUs, SSDs, HDDs, RAM, and USB drives. It works on a similar concept to 3DMark, another system benchmarking tool.

As UserBenchmark allows users to upload their hardware score results to the website, it makes it a source of unreleased hardware leaks. Leaks have been discovered for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA hardware.

In 2024, UserBenchmark required a $10 per year fee to allow usage of the program during periods of high use. Some people, without subscriptions, may be able to make use of free open testing slots. To test with the open free slots, non-subscribers must finish "a 3D captcha minigame" with the objective of shooting 13 ships to the ground.

Controversies

In July 2019, UserBenchmark updated how it calculates the effective speed index on its website's CPU hardware rankings, drastically affecting the ranking positions of CPUs, which had the effect of penalizing high core count processors, including most of AMD's lineup. This resulted in backlash on social media, with some hardware enthusiast boards banning links to the UserBenchmark website. UserBenchmark has become well known in the enthusiast PC gaming community for benchmarks results that disagree sharply with other sources.

References

  1. ↑ Mukherjee, Ritoban (25 February 2025). "Best benchmarks software of 2025". www.techradar.com. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  2. ↑ Nasir, Hassam (2025-03-12). "UserBenchmark bashes AMD GPUs and claims they lack real-world performance". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  3. ↑ StressTest, UserBenchmark. "UserBenchmark StressTest - Push Your Hardware Beyond Limits". userbenchmark.org. Retrieved 2026-10-13.
  4. 1 2 3 Connatser, Matthew (2024-02-17). "Controversial benchmarking website goes behind partial paywall — Userbenchmark now requires a $10 monthly subscription [Update]". Tom's Hardware. Archived from the original on 2025-01-10. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
  5. ↑ Mujtaba, Hassan (5 August 2021). "Mysterious AMD Radeon RX GPU Based on Navi 21 & 8 GB GDDR6 Memory Spotted". www.wccftech.com. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  6. ↑ Deakin, Daniel R. (2022-08-17). "Intel Raptor Lake engineering samples produce mind-boggling results on UserBenchmark". Notebookcheck. Archived from the original on 2025-01-24. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
  7. ↑ btarunr (16 August 2020). "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Surfaces on Userbenchmark, Rocks 19Gbps Memory Clock". www.techpowerup.com. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  8. ↑ "What is the effective CPU speed index? - Answers - UserBenchmark". UserBenchmark.com. Archived from the original on 2024-11-20. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
  9. ↑ Matthew Connatser (2019-07-28). "Updated: Userbenchmark Responds to Criticism Over Score Weighing Revisions". Tom's Hardware. Archived from the original on 2024-12-25. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
  10. ↑ eTeknix.com (2020-04-22). "UserBenchmark Gets Banned From 3 Huge Reddit Groups". eTeknix. Archived from the original on 2024-05-23. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
  11. ↑ Sen, Sayan. "Notorious UserBenchmark is already throwing shade at AMD's new Ryzen 7 5800X3D". neowin.net. Archived from the original on 2025-02-12. Retrieved 2025-01-15.