Apple’s colorful phone offers identical performance to the premium iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max devices, but in a package with a longer battery life that costs a cool $250 less.
Provided the results are genuine, the “pro” configuration of the new Mac mini offers performance comparable to the aging Mac Pro which released in 2013. It also outperforms 2017 iMac models, but not the latest iMac Pro.
First synthetic benchmarks show modest CPU gains for Apple’s new MacBook Air model unveiled last week over both 2017’s model and the one-port 12-inch MacBook notebook.
The new iPad Pros have comparable power to Apple’s nearly $3,000 2.6GHz 2018 MacBook Pro model outfitted with Intel’s latest six-core i7 processor.
Initial Geekbench scores on the recently announced 2018 MacBook Pro lineup show significant improvements over last year’s models.
An unreleased, much faster MacBook Pro notebook model with twice the RAM and running Intel’s powerful six-core “Coffee Lake” chip might be about to be announced soon.
This problem will only get worse as iPhones and their batteries continue to age.
The myth that with every major new version of iOS Apple deliberately throttles its older CPUs and GPUs in order to make legacy iPhones feel sluggish has been debunked.
The A11 Bionic chip powering iPhone is is the speediest processor ever put in a mobile phone that obliterates every Android phone Tom’s Guide tested.
New iPhones crush every Android phone out there as early Geek benchmarks of the new A11 Bionic chip in iPhone 8 and X show scores on par with the top-of-the-line 13-inch MacBook Pro model.
Available on App Store free of charge, Primate Labs’ refreshed Geekbench app now lets you measure the performance of mobile GPUs in iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac devices. Geekbench 4.1 brings a new Compute Benchmark to iOS and macOS. Written using Apple’s new graphics API, Metal, it measures the performance of the GPU at executing common compute tasks such as image processing and computational photography.
When you go to get your new iPhone every year, do you get the higher-capacity handset to have the best of the best, or do you get the lower capacity handset to save some dime?
If you typically pick the latter choice, you might want to re-think your decision for the iPhone 7 & 7 Plus.
