Apple's Mac mini was refreshed last week and it's quite a beast, according to the first Geekbench 4 synthetic benchmark scores pertaining to the pricier $1,099 model upgraded to an optional six-core 3.2GHz Intel Core i7 processor, resulting in a $1,299 configuration.
First synthetic Geekbench benchmarks of the most popular Apple notebook are here.
The new 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro introduced Tuesday have plenty of CPU and GPU power to make them comparable in terms of processing speed to Apple's nearly $3,000 15-inch 2018 MacBook Pro notebook outfitted with Intel's six-core Core i7 chip.
Initial Geekbench scores on the recently announced 2018 MacBook Pro lineup show significant improvements over last year's models. This shouldn't come as that much of a surprise since this year's model features the first core increases for the MacBook Pro since 2011.
MacBook Pro inventory has begun to dwindle ahead of WWDC and now a more powerful device labeled “MacBookPro14,3” has appeared in supposed Geekbench listings, identifying the CPU as a six-core 2.21 GHz Core i7-8750H with Turbo Boost up to a whopping 4.1 GHz.
John Poole, founder of the popular synthetic benchmark known as Geekbench, has discovered a curious correlation between the oft-reported performance issues that some owners of older iPhones have been complaining about and battery age/changes to iOS.
Long-running speculation that Apple deliberately slows down older iPhones in software in order to supposedly push people into purchasing its latest models has been officially debunked and put to rest by Finnish computer benchmark developers Futuremark.
iPhone 8 is here and it's the world's fastest phone in terms of both synthetic benchmarks and heavy duty real-world tasks, as tested by hardware experts over at Tom's Guide.
Almost a year has passed following iPhone 7's debut and the Apple-designed A10 Fusion system-on-a-chip powering it has only recently been marginally outperformed by a few rival devices. However, Apple is already out with a game-changing A11 Bionic chip in the new iPhone X, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, now ranked as by far the fastest mobile chip out there.
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.
Apple typically takes the iPhone's A-series chips and updates them for iPads with more GPU cores and a faster performing, higher-clocked CPU. These chips typically have an “X” in their name, but with new iPad Pros and a fifth-generation iPad mini due in Spring 2017 the company has not yet officially announced an “X” variant of the iPhone 7's A10 Fusion chip.
Today, a source on Chinese social network Weibo posted alleged synthetic GeekBench 4 benchmark scores that could indicate at least one-fifth faster CPU performance in both single-core and dual-core computing for the purported A10X Fusion chip.