>>1317849I think the same problems apply to PC parts in regards to assembling things that suit your needs.
Performance measuring also depends on the benchmarking software and what is being compared.
You won't really be able to say that part A is better than part B in all situations in much the same way that this would be the case for /out/.
A different part might perform better but it might also be larger, more power hungry, more costly and might not have certain features that a worse performing part has or the overall worse performing part might be better in certain areas performance-wise.
Though I do think the variance would still defeat an /out/-gear-picker immensely unless it's just very restricted to /out/ gear and specifically intended use because that variance is an order of magnitude greater than for PC parts.
You can do /out/ activities passably in almost any type of clothing with any type of improvised gear and gear is useful across many disciplines and can in many cases be twisted into a completely different kind of use scenario.