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Under The Hood: Sandy Bridge-E Benchmarked

3:00PM November 22, 2011 | Gordon Mah Ung - Maximum PC

Intel’s new Sandy Bridge-E chip reigns supreme — and we have the charts to prove it. True performance enthusiasts have had a very difficult choice this past year. Go for maximum core and thread count using an older core microarchitecture, or cheap out and get almost the same (or better) performance in most apps and games using the mainstream Sandy Bridge chip. More »

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If These Early iPhone 4S Benchmarks Are Legit, It’s Fast

4:00PM October 12, 2011 | Adrian Covert

AnandTech has dug up some apparent benchmarks for the iPhone 4S, which they found around different benchmarking sites and believe to be true. Judging from the numbers, it seems like it’ll be one of the most powerful mobile devices around More »

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Hands-On iPhone 4S Video Shows 3x Speed Boost

8:06AM October 11, 2011 | Sam Biddle

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! More »

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Samsung Galaxy S II Has The Most GPU Firepower

2:00AM September 13, 2011 | Adrian Covert

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 two times faster than any other Android device — phone or tablet. More »

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The 13-Inch MBA Burns The Fastest 2010 MacBook Pro

10:19PM July 21, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Holy crud. While it’s just a benchmark test and those don’t accurately reflect yadda yadda yadda YOU GUYS. The 1.7GHz Core i513-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 bonkers. More »

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iPad 2 Is As Powerful As A Supercomputer From The ’80s

2:00PM May 10, 2011 | Casey Chan

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. More »

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Is The iMovie On The iPad 2 Really Faster Than On A MacBook Pro?

2:20PM March 15, 2011 | Adrian Covert

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? More »

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iPad 2 Benchmarks: Way Better Than The Xoom, Kills The Original iPad

9:00AM March 13, 2011 | Casey Chan

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 beast for 3D gaming. It’s incredible, it’s almost silly to put the Tegra 2 (which is in the Xoom) and A4 in the same conversation as the A5. Anandtech says: More »

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

9:32AM March 8, 2011 | Kyle VanHemert

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. More »

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Motorla Atrix Vs LG Optimus 2X: Dual-Core Benchmark Battle Go!

1:15PM March 5, 2011 | Adrian Covert

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, the same 1GB of RAM 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 even jumped ahead in a few of those). So what gives? More »