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>Even still, the demo proves that AVIF can deliver a usable image with up to 3x as fewer bytes as JXL!

I was taught to be skeptical of objective benchmarks; Why should we trust them when people are benchmaxxing?

I'm not following.... the demo involves you look at images as they get decoded. Objective benchmarks are beside the point here.

Oh, i left the wrong quotation whereas i intended to reply to another message. Throughout the blogpost you're quality matching and comparing encoders based on objective metrics whereas it'd be more telling to get the crowd subjective comparisons. I think it's pretty evident that most codecs benchmaxx to the point of objective metrics being useless.

Ah, no worries! I can't speak for Iris and Aperture, but both "tune IQ" modes in SVT-AV1 and libaom had extensive human evaluations to make sure they weren't accidentally being benchmaxxed at the expense of subjective quality.

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