[29athrowaway]

It's hard to do a benchmark, as you have many variables.

- what kernel you used + which settings

- what CPU model you used? what security mitigations were enabled?

- GPU model, GPU driver version, GPU driver configuration settings

- what wine version you used (e.g.: wine stable, staging, devel? proton? glorious eggroll? custom?)

- what wine settings you used: overrides, Windows version, installed libraries, etc.

- did it use the gamemode launcher or similar?

Playing with those knobs have a big impact on performance.

[111111IIIIIII]

Variables don't make benchmarking any more difficult. You should always record the variables.

[29athrowaway]

On Windows, your specs will make most of the difference in benchmarks.

When running on wine, we could say that how you are running a game can have as much on performance impact as your specs.

Identifying the differences between setups is hard.

[111111IIIIIII]

Specifically which part of "record the variables" do you not understand?

The amount of variables simply has no impact on the difficulty of running a benchmark. The amount of variables will impact the relevance or use value of the benchmark, but interpretation and application is the user's problem. The amount of variables has zero impact on the process of performing or recording the benchmark, and this matters because interpretation and application is easier with more benchmarks covering more cases, but your insistence that it's "hard" could only reduce that number, making you the only variable that is actually a problem.

[29athrowaway]

It is not impossible, but it is easier said than done.