Synthetic benchmarks don't matter. It's all about the real-world results. Overclockers like me were benching that stuff since Pentium 4 on phase change/peltier cooling.
What a bench that all CPU overclockers used was SuperPi 1MB but that died out. The thing is a 2600K OCed at 5GHz would set lower times than a 6700K at 4.5GHz but would get smoked on some real-world applications due to the optimizations that exist in hardware with the later generation.
Some games have more improvements than others but I think the most important improvements than frame rate are the frame draw response times, multiprojection to have objects not stretched when they are near the sides of the screen, and the electric bill power draw.
I got tired of stupid benching every single time I put something new in and installing new drivers. The best way to get a high score is to disable unnecessary services and turn off apps that aren't related to the bench. Also making the video card settings all low and force disabling quality settings to high performance. Force AF and AA off. That isn't a real default bench but it will still pass the test but the score will be higher. This had to be done every single time there was a change of hardware, clock speed, and/or memory timing.
The novices bench and think it matters to be honest. My friend got a 980 Ti from some slow PC, he listened to me (last year), and he benches all the time but not w/ the advanced how to get your score higher type technique.
