I've never really cared about 'bonus'.
I do care about "correctly running" tho......My main rig is back to 75k , from the 51k I was getting from version 7.
SMP is up 20% , gpu's are both up 5% on the same unit , and pulling some 24k units...
I do admit I did'nt try to tweak out v7 , but it dun matter....it's fixed.