Benchmark shows significant performance boost in new 8-core MacBook Pro
Apple recently announced upgraded MacBook Pro models, including the company’s first 8-core model. A new benchmark score shows a big boost in performance in that new model.
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Benchmarks confirm iPhone XR brings iPhone XS-like speed but with a longer battery life
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.
First Mac mini Geekbench scores promise Mac Pro-level performance for the “pro” model
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.
Benchmarks show expected gains for the new Air over 2017 model and 12″ MacBook
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.
Geekbench tests put new iPad Pros within spitting distance of 2018 15″ MacBook Pro
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.
Geekbench 4 shows huge improvements for 2018 MacBook Pro
Initial Geekbench scores on the recently announced 2018 MacBook Pro lineup show significant improvements over last year’s models.
An unreleased MacBook Pro with Intel’s Coffee Lake chip and 32GB RAM leaks on Geekbench
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.
Geekbench finds a link between sluggish iPhone performance and battery age
This problem will only get worse as iPhones and their batteries continue to age.
Futuremark debunks speculation that Apple intentionally slows down older iPhones
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.
iPhone 8 is the world’s fastest phone, obliterates every Android phone out there
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.
Geekbench: A11 Bionic smokes past Android rivals, beats iPad Pro, on par with 13″ MBP
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.
Benchmark GPU performance of your iPhone, iPad and Mac with Geekbench’s updated app
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.
