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The first Geekbench benchmarks for Apple’s high-end M1 Max chip featuring a 10-core CPU and 32-core GPU have appeared and, as expected, it’s not good news for beleaguered Intel. M1, M1 Pro, and M1 Max form a family of chips that lead the industry in performance, custom technologies, and power efficiency. Juli Clover for MacRumors:…
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Benchmarks for Apple’s new fourth generation iPad Air have appeared online, indicating the A14 Bionic expected to be used in the “iPhone 12” range offers more performance than the high-powered A13 Bionic and the iPad Pro’s A12Z Bionic. Apple’s 5nm A14 Bionic chip Malcolm Owen for AppleInsider: In benchmarks spotted by Twitter user “Ice Universe”…
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Apple silicon-powered Macs show promising performance benchmarks which have appeared on Geekbench as developers begin to speed test these new Macs. It appears that even with an older Apple A12 SoC variant (A12Z), they already run as fast as some Windows devices. Apple’s Developer Transition Kit is powered by Apple silicon Jonny Evans for Computerworld:…
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Well, it took all of about 10 minutes for someone to do what most everyone expected: Somebody benchmarked Apple’s iPad crammed into a Mac mini case – and even with the Rosetta 2 translation layer running, it beats Microsoft’s native ARM-based Surface Pro X. Apple’s Developer Transition Kit Juli Clover for MacRumors: Apple’s Developer Transition…
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The first benchmarks for Apple’s Developer Transition Kit, a Mac mini powered by Apple Silicon, reveal that the company is very slightly under-clocking the A12Z Bionic SoC, with, as expected, Rosetta 2 also negatively impacting performance. Apple’s Developer Transition Kit Malcolm Owen for AppleInsider: In terms of performance, the single-core tests resulted in a range…
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It can be difficult to accurately measure and compare and the performance of one computer with another. Fortunately, though, the Windows Experience Index Score offers a way to reliably test the performance of different Windows PCs. Let’s take a look at what the Windows Experience Index Score is, how it works, and how to see…
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New benchmarks show that Apple’s new 2020 MacBook Air (quad-core i5) is up to 76% faster than 2018-2019 model. On Wednesday, Apple unveiled the new MacBook Air featuring faster performance, the new Magic Keyboard, twice the storage, and a new lower starting price of $999 ($899 for education). The new MacBook Air delivers up to…
Read More “Benchmarks: 2020 MacBook Air (quad-core i5) is up to 76% faster than 2018-2019 model” »
Rumor has it that Apple is prepping the company’s next-generation 13-inch MacBook Pro, with a scissor-mechanism keyboard (yay!), following the launch of the all-new 16-inch MacBook Pro in October, and the new 13-inch machines could adopt Intel’s 10th-generation 10nm Ice Lake processors. Juli Clover for MacRumors: Over the weekend, a Twitter leaker shared a 3D…
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All-new, completely redesigned Mac Pro delivers maximum performance, expansion and configurability. Will the 2019 Mac Pro significantly speed up Adobe pro apps? And can advanced AMD GPUs do the job as well as a powerful NVIDIA GPU? Rob Morgan for Bare Feats: The 2019 Mac Pro 12-Core runs Adobe Pro Apps 31% to 66% faster…
Read More “2019 Mac Pro 12-core vs. 2010 Mac Pro 12-core in Adobe apps” »
Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro is the world’s best pro notebook. Bare Feats check the graphics performance of Apple’s new 16-inch MacBook Pro with Radeon Pro 5500M GPU and 8G of GDDR6 memory. Rob Morgan for Bare Feats: During the last three years, the speed of the MacBook Pro GPUs has doubled and tripled, depending on…
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