Of course it is comparable - just divide my figures with 2 and multiplay by number of channels you have. If you have made any logging on the machine that was running the software we could go into further details, but as you haven't..
Ont he other hand, from what I have seen your "reviews" are anyhow based on your subjective impressions and not on objective measurements, so that particular article was pretty much inline with your usual style.
Btw, my remarks are based generally on any software running on any OS doing audio processing - if it cannot run on i5 processor (don't even bother to mention i7 in this context) without choking it has been purely designed. Btw, as a computer science engineer I have worked 15+ years as a software designer so I think I have a good perception of what can be expected from modern processors. Can you say the same?