Synthetic benchmarks should be approached with care, because putting too much trust in those numbers may result in unnecessarily high (or low) expectations of a device's performance. Indeed, it is real-world usage that counts, but still, benchmarking shouldn't be ignored altogether. After all, there are some tests that can actually give us a pretty good picture about certain aspects of a phone or a tablet...Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Here-are-the-new-benchmark-test-will-be-using-in-our-reviews_id47521
