This is weirdly common; phone chipset manufacturers did it with phone benchmarks [0], VW with emissions [1], nVidia did it with 3DMark [2], Intel with the SPEC benchmark for its Xeon processors [3], etc.

When it comes to computer graphics, iirc it's pretty normalized now - graphics drivers all seem to have tweaks, settings, optimizations and workarounds for every game.

(As an aside, I hate that I have to link to archive.org, there's a lot of dead links nowadays but these are important things to remember).

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20250306120819/https://www.anand...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20051218120547/http://techreport...

[3] https://www.servethehome.com/impact-of-intel-compiler-optimi...