Benchmarks vs reviewers at stock

[drakioned]

I replaced my CPU and motherboard today (3700x + B450 -> 5700x + B550) and ran Cinebench to check it was working.

My results at were 12,380 on multicore, temps were reasonable, power consumption at 77W, so it seemed to be working fine.

If I look at review sites:
- techpowerup: 13,474
- cpu-monkey: 14,230
- kitguru: 13,200
- custompc: 13,431
- nanoreview: 14,150

I do notice that CPU-Z benchmarks show comparable to what's on that.

Now, I'm used to having lower benchmarks than average, and I had always attributed it to running benchmarks under "normal" conditions (with Discord, Logitech/Steelseries/whatever, anti-virus, and Steam running in the background) rather than reviewers test conditions.

Does this sound like a reasonable explanation? Obviously I can enable PBO, etc, etc if I wanted higher numbers, but I guess I want to validate that it's working as "expected".

 

[drakioned]

Same ram as the benchmarkers? Same bios/agesa versions?

I'd discount the cpu-monkey and nanoreview results personally, the others you mention are far more well known and reputable and all seem very similar.

There are way too many variables to get an accurate result (especially if you are using an actual existing windows install rather than a clean reproducible setup like professional benchmarkers use)

Did you benchmark before the upgrade, was the score similarly lower than review scores?

No, and I figured it would be lower due to an actual existing Windows install… but I guess I’m just looking for some reassurance that nothing is very obviously wrong. I really would prefer not to reinstall Windows to find out.

Not using same RAM (3600mhz RAM) and latest BIOS… so like, there’s definitely causes for variability

 

[drakioned]

Found these on YouTube:
12724 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QXHgolDDss
12846 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmHlNiPQ9sQ
13326 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eStGbTgj0Q

So I assuming I'm still probably within the expected range, especially with the non-clean system.

 

[drakioned]

So for cooling I'm using a ARCTIC Freezer 36, none of the core tests exceed 62C on any core/package during the test, so I don't think I'm being temperature throttled.

 

[drakioned]

Alright, thanks all!

 

[drakioned]

I saw a video recently that showed that performance was reduced by a few percent if you have multiple monitors.

Huh... Well I do have multiple monitors