'Benchmark' in these terms are what film photographers imposed on digital capture in the olden days to gauge it against film and the darkroom, but now the benchmark is blurred and the argument has moved on. If you are saying a silver print is still superior then it's equally valid to say a digital camera is now 'better' than a film camera (leaving out large format and and the usual traps associated with talking colloquially). So print the superior digital file with an inferior inkjet printer and call it a tie, the silver print quality benchmark becomes meaningless. If you are a film photographer you know you can embrace all sorts of film formats each with their own qualities and not call on benchmarks to judge which is better, so is a large format image printed on an inkjet better or worse than a half frame printed in the darkroom? It's called opening a can of worms.