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Hands On iPhone 4S Video Shows 3x Speed Boost (And Siri!)

Somehow, someone in China’s gotten their mitts on an iPhone 4S already. Or so this video claims. The brief vid, dug up by MacRumors, shows off some impressive benchmarking and Siri settings. It seems faster! Safari launches near-instantly, which is kind of impressive. It is, after all, Safari, and might have just been recently closed.…

Tech News Sam Biddle Oct 10

Samsung Galaxy S II Has More GPU Firepower Than Any Android Device

Anandtech benchmarked Samsung’s refreshed Galaxy S II phone over the weekend and discovered that its Mali-400 quad-core GPU contained within its EXYNOS chipset is not only powerful, but nearly 2x faster than any other Android device—phone or tablet. The Samsung Galaxy S II was tested using GLBenchmark 2.1, and scored a 42.5. By comparison, the…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 12

The 13-Inch MBA Burns the Fastest 2010 MacBook Pro

Holy crud. While it’s just a benchmark test and those don’t accurately reflect yadda yadda yadda YOU GUYS. The 1.7GHz Core i5 13-inch MBA just blew the door off of last year’s 2.67GHz Core i7 17-inch MacBook Pro on GeekBench. And did more than twice as well as last year’s tricked 13-inch Air. That is…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jul 21

The iPad 2 is as Powerful as a Supercomputer from the ’80s

Technology. An ever-changing beast! So much so, that the sinfully thin iPad 2 packs the same power as the jumbo-sized four-processor version of the Cray 2, a supercomputer, which was the world’s faster computer in 1985. But duh! 1985 was a helluva long time ago, it’s sorta expected that we’d be moving at that pace.…

Tech News Casey Chan May 10

Is the iMovie on the iPad 2 Really Faster Than on a MacBook Pro?

It’s easy to assume a MacBook Pro would outgun an iPad in iMovie speed tests, due to its beefier processor and extra RAM. But AppAdvice found that both iPad models bested the MacBook Pro in multiple tests. What gives? Well there could be a couple of explanations why this is the case. First, the video…

Tech News Adrian Covert Mar 14

iPad 2 Graphics Benchmarks: Way Better Than the Xoom, Kills the Original iPad

Anandtech put the iPad 2 under a GLBenchmark 2.0 test, a great benchmark for seeing the power of the GPU (where Apple is claiming 9x the performance of the original iPad), and came away with some staggering results. The iPad 2, or I guess more specifically, the A5 chip is going to be an absolute…

Tech News Casey Chan Mar 12

Early iPad 2 Benchmarks Suggest Web Performance Isn’t Much Improved

Ars Technica pounced on some early iPad 2 benchmarks by CNET UK (link currently down), suggesting that the iPad 2’s improved processor doesn’t give it that much of an edge over the original tablet for web-based tasks. CNET ran the SunSpider JavaScript test on both an iPad 2 and an original iPad running last week’s…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Mar 7

Motorola Atrix vs LG Optimus 2X: Dual-Core Benchmark Battle Go!

The Motorola Atrix 4G and the LG Optimus 2X both feature the same Tegra 2 Chipset that uses the same 1.2 Ghz, dual-core ARM Cortex A9 processor, the same GeForce ULP GPU and the same version of Android (2.2.1). Yet, when benchmarked, the Optimus 2X outgunned the Atrix in nearly every test (the Galaxy S…

Tech News Adrian Covert Mar 4

2011 MacBook Pros’ Benchmark Results Impress

Those lucky few who unchained a thousand or two notes for the thrills of a new MacBook Pro have been busily Geekbenching them since. Already, the results are looking hotter than last year’s models. [9to5Mac] https://gizmodo.com/all-about-the-new-macbook-pros-2011-5769132

Tech News Kat Hannaford Feb 25

4G Phone Fight: Evo Shift Battles Epic 4G

Let’s say you want a 4G phone, because 4 is one more G than your current phone has. If you’re deciding between Sprint’s finest—the HTC Evo Shift and the Samsung Epic 4G—you’re gonna want to watch this. Both phones are sliders, both are on the same network, and by outward appearances seem pretty much identical.…

Gadgets Brian Barrett Jan 20

How Fast Are the New MacBook Airs?

We’re taking our time with the new MacBook Airs, trying to find out if you can really count on these wonder wedges to serve as your main machine. But some early benchmarks are already out, and here’s how they look: The Benchmarks: MacWorld ran a thorough Speedmark 6.5 benchmark on all four standard new MacBook…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Oct 26

Intel’s 5GHz, Minus 40 Degrees Celsius Superchilled Test Rig

Last week, PC Pro challenged its readers to see whose rig could render a 3D graphics benchmark the quickest. An Intel engineer took the prize using a test rig overclocked to nearly 5GHz and cooled to -40 degrees Celsius. So, maybe that’s cheating a little bit. The rig’s phase-cooled, thanks to the huge freezer box…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Aug 7

Steam for Mac Benchmarks: Windows Is Much Faster

For Mac users, it’s been pretty hard not to get excited about Steam and what it means for the future of gaming on Macs. So how well does it actually work? As always, Tom’s Hardware comes through with the benchmarks. https://gizmodo.com/real-gaming-for-macs-is-finally-here-with-steam-5537409 There are few things in the gaming world as exciting as a new platform…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert May 17

AMD’s $300 6-Core CPU: Too Good To Be True?

AMD’s new Thuban hexa-core CPUs come out swinging with prices that belie their size. And if we’ve learned anything from years of watching action movies: You never, ever count out the underdog. Such is the case with perennial underdog AMD. Bloodied, beaten, and bruised by months and months of Intel chips that outpaced its parts,…

Tech News MaximumPC Apr 27

MacBook Pro 15-inch Core i7 Benchmarked: It’s So Fast

The new 17 and 15-inch MacBook Pros with Core i5/i7 processors are fast. Fast. Overall I’d say they’re about 50% faster than the last gen Core 2 Duos, which is about the same bump the iMacs got with Core i7. https://gizmodo.com/new-macbook-pros-feature-core-i5-and-i7-processors-5515928 Here are benchmarks to show exactly how much faster. About 50% faster in the…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 13

iPad Benchmarks

Our test notes on the iPad’s speed have been updated with some benchmarks comparing the iPad and the iPhone. The numbers confirm what we saw in our field tests: on average, the iPad runs about twice as fast as the 3GS. For the full numbers, check out our test notes.

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Apr 4

Nvidia Ion 2 GPU Benchmarked As Slower Than Its Predecessor

The first Nvidia Ion 2 netbook has been benchmarked, and the early results are disappointing: the Acer Aspire One 532G‘s next-gen GPU managed to underperform the older Ion LE. https://gizmodo.com/acers-aspire-one-532g-is-first-netbook-with-nvidias-ion-5471868 The benchmarking was done by Netbook News while at MWC, who managed to run a 3DMark03 graphics benchmark test during their hands-on time. The resulting…

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 22

How Fast Are the New Intel Core i3 Mobile, i5 Mobile, and i5 661?

The reviews and benchmarks on the new Intel 32nm flagship chips are here. The usual suspects have put Arrandale—Core i5 Mobile and Core i3 Mobile for notebooks—and Clarkdale—Core i5 661 for desktops—under the microscope. How fast are they? Really fast, obviously, and apparently totally worth the upgrade. Clarkdale is fastest that anything dual core out…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 4

Intel’s New “Pineview” Atom Processors Benchmarked, Found Disappointing

The new Atom D410 and D510 processors were just given preliminary benchmarking tests, and the scores actually came out pretty disappointing. The older Nvidia Ion configuration actually beat the Pineview procs in most tests—not what we’d call encouraging. Of course you don’t go for an Atom for muscle, and the Pineview processors do beat the…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Dec 11

Benchmarked: The Quad-Core i7 iMac is Super Fast

Our iMac review included a 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo chip inside, but we received the top-of-the-line iMac housing the more promising 2.8GHz Core i7 processor. Do more cores make up for lower clock speeds? Yes. Often 2X to 3X. https://gizmodo.com/apple-imac-review-27-inches-and-less-chin-5388567 The Basic Differences in Chips First off, I should note that the Core i7 chip…

Reviews Brian Lam and Don Nguyen Nov 18

Hands On iPhone 4S Video Shows 3x Speed Boost (And Siri!)

Samsung Galaxy S II Has More GPU Firepower Than Any Android Device

The 13-Inch MBA Burns the Fastest 2010 MacBook Pro

The iPad 2 is as Powerful as a Supercomputer from the ’80s

Is the iMovie on the iPad 2 Really Faster Than on a MacBook Pro?

iPad 2 Graphics Benchmarks: Way Better Than the Xoom, Kills the Original iPad

Early iPad 2 Benchmarks Suggest Web Performance Isn’t Much Improved

Motorola Atrix vs LG Optimus 2X: Dual-Core Benchmark Battle Go!

2011 MacBook Pros’ Benchmark Results Impress

4G Phone Fight: Evo Shift Battles Epic 4G

How Fast Are the New MacBook Airs?

Intel’s 5GHz, Minus 40 Degrees Celsius Superchilled Test Rig

Steam for Mac Benchmarks: Windows Is Much Faster

AMD’s $300 6-Core CPU: Too Good To Be True?

MacBook Pro 15-inch Core i7 Benchmarked: It’s So Fast

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Nvidia Ion 2 GPU Benchmarked As Slower Than Its Predecessor

How Fast Are the New Intel Core i3 Mobile, i5 Mobile, and i5 661?

Intel’s New “Pineview” Atom Processors Benchmarked, Found Disappointing

Benchmarked: The Quad-Core i7 iMac is Super Fast

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