Re: tom's hardware including Bitcoin Mining in 2012 GPGPU benchmarks
Since their BTC benchmarks are so untrue and it seems they have little will to do anything to inform themselves to correct this, it makes me wonder if indeed all their other benchmarks could be of the same rubbish quality 
That would be a very poor conclusion. Every benchmark shows the result from running a given program. They aren't trying to show what the fastest hash rate is; they're trying to show what the hash rate is for that hardware with that program with no tweaking. It would be a ridiculous waste of time for them to try a bunch of different programs and settings to try to tweak the result for every single piece of hardware that they test. Absolute values aren't important. Comparative values are what is important. And if the programs or drivers are optimized to work better on certain hardware, that would be nothing new or unusual in the benchmarking world.