then basic common sense should apply. every one of the compounds released to market for human use are equal to, or more anabolic than testosterone because if they were not they would lack the androgenic:anabolic separation to justify not just throwing testosterone at the problems.
if we are operating in the realms of 5-10g of full body protein accretion per day, then your average person has zero way of telling short term what is growing muscle or not. what the average person can tell, is how retentive a product is and those products then get a reputation as being the best mass builders. nandrolone, dbol, anadrol. all the massive water weight compounds where the scales fly up. anything that produces skeletal muscle gains in the region of like 100g per week is below the +/- error on most home scales, so can only be reasonably seen after long cycles. if you look at any sufficiently dosed cycle, say 10-15mg/kg/bw of gear 8 weeks after you've come off and all the temp adaptations have left, leaving only protein accretion, then you're left with basically the same few lbs of muscle regardless of what you're taking.