When you bought a new hardware (or upgrade the whole computer), you want to know if there is any performance gained over the old system and whether your money is well spent. The best way to find out is to do a benchmarking: Run your old hardware/system through a series of test and record down the score. Replace with the new hardware and run through the same series of test again. Record down the score and compare it with base score. If there is no (or minimal) improvement, you know that you are not getting the best deal for the new hardware.

In addition, hardware performance deteriorates over time. Frequent benchmarking can inform you about the health of your system (or hardware) and whether it is time to upgrade your hardware.
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