About Duplicate Results

Why are there more than 10 results?

Ideas International defines duplicate results as occurring when two or more results are submitted on essentially identical hardware and software. This is often seen with “rebadged” hardware, or when a vendor sells what is essentially the same system but with a different form factor (e.g. rackmount or tower).

So as to ensure that our top 10 tables include 10 distinct results, Ideas International has marked duplicate results with an asterisk and has not assigned them an individual rank.

Why do some duplicate results have a rank and not others?

Duplicate results, by definition, will always have the same performance scores as the original result. This means that when ranked by performance, they will have the same rank. However, in benchmarks that have a price/performance metric, duplicate results will nearly always have a slightly different price/performance score.

Therefore, when ranked by price/performance, they cannot share the same rank. As a result, duplicate results have an unranked slot in the price/performance top 10. They still appear in the correct order according to their price/performance score, but are not assigned a rank.