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Recent posts on GeekBench, a cross-platform processor benchmark, indicate there are at least two new Macintosh computers coming out of Cupertino this summer.Posts from May 10th and May 13th show entries for a new iMac13,2 and a “MacBookPro9,1’ respectively, running Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.On the deskt... |
14 May 2012
06:06 GMT |
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Galaxy S III, the latest flagship Android-based mobile phone from Samsung, is expected to make an appearance on shelves in the United States this summer, via various wireless carriers out there. One of these would be Verizon, and its own version of the device was just spotted on a Benchmarking website, sporting mod... |
14 May 2012
01:49 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices will have both desktop and laptop accelerated processing units for consumers to buy, but that doesn't mean it won't have other chips too. In fact, the Sunnyvale, California-based company is also going to launch the R-Series, which is basically the mobile “Trinity” series... |
10 May 2012
04:23 GMT |
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The A10-4600M is going to be AMD's main player on the notebook chip market, as soon as the Trinity series of accelerated processing units makes its debut.
We now know what the specifications of the APU are, but that's not all that the folks at Nordic Hardware got their hands on.
Advanced Micro Devices&#... |
25 April 2012
02:32 GMT |
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Anyone hoping that Intel's next-generation mobile chip will one-up Tegra 3 will probably be disappointed.
Intel has been advertising its Medfield chip as a competent competitor to ARM-based mobile platforms.
Alas, while the processing prowess and power consumption might be decent enough, the graphics leave muc... |
13 April 2012
06:56 GMT |
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Geekbench 2.3.0, the latest version of Primate Labs’ performance-measuring tool, no longer supports Macintosh computers relying on processors built on the PowerPC architecture. This, and other changes, are detailed further below. Posted earlier this week, Geekbench 2.3.0 is an important update to an even more ... |
12 April 2012
15:11 GMT |
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In an attempt to collect as much info on AMD’s Trinity results as possible, German blog site Citavia has compiled a list of results obtained from working with Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software. According to Wikipedia, BOINC is “an open source middleware system for volun... |
10 April 2012
03:16 GMT |
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Intel's launch event expected to take place on April 23 may or may not include mobile parts alongside desktop units, but some benchmarks of one have surfaced anyway. Bulgarian website laptop.bg has posted benchmark results of the Intel Core i7-3610QM central processing unit. Or at least, the website claims t... |
10 April 2012
02:44 GMT |
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The UNIGINE, a real-time 3D engine built to run on all major platforms, including Linux, has just received important updates, bringing some interesting changes. The UNIGINE project is a massive undertaking and it’s already used in some released games, not to mention a lot more titles that haven’t hit th... |
7 April 2012
04:24 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices is going to launch its 32nm-based Trinity accelerated processing units this year (2012) and there is now some extra information on the line.
To be more specific, the Internet has uncovered some details about one of the chips that will be part of this product collection.
The unit in question ... |
4 April 2012
04:04 GMT |
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Intel's Ivy Bridge CPUs are really painting themselves as hardcore chips, even now. Of course, it might be more accurate to say that the people who got their hands on them early on are to blame for the hype. Then again, when a chip turns out to be an overclocking beast like Core i7-3770K, you really don'... |
27 March 2012
10:56 GMT |
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Phoronix Test Suite, codenamed Bygland, the most comprehensive benchmarking and testing platform available for Linux and designed to carry out qualitative and quantitative benchmarks in a clean, reproducible, and easy-to-use manner, is now at version 3.8. Phoronix Test Suite ( Bygland) 3.8 is the last major update ... |
19 March 2012
10:44 GMT |
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We were cautious about the first set of benchmarks showing NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680 being far stronger than AMD's competing products, since it was from one of the former company's own slides.
Now, though, a third party has conducted some tests, and the results do favor the Kepler-based adapter.
The... |
17 March 2012
05:23 GMT |
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Futuremark's 3DMark popular benchmarking suite doesn't yet support systems equipped with the LucidLogix Virtu dynamic graphics switching technology, but this won't last for much longer.
Not many people use benchmarks, but those who do may be a bit disgruntled if they own systems that use LucidLogix&#... |
14 March 2012
03:41 GMT |
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In releasing Safari 5.1.4 to end-users this week, Apple carefully noted that the OS X Lion implementation of the web browser includes a special enhancement to JavaScript.
In a rare move, Apple issued a separate technical note for Safari 5.1.4 on OS X Lion to mention a specific enhancement included for customers runn... |
13 March 2012
05:55 GMT |
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We've seen the latest news on the Cedar Trail processing platform and, now, we get to see some early benchmarking results for the much more hyped up Ivy Bridge CPU line.
As has been said repeatedly before, the Ivy Bridge series will have better graphics than the Sandy Bridge CPUs.
Just how much better was ha... |
22 February 2012
03:28 GMT |
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As Sandy Bridge CPUs were followed by Sandy Bridge-EP units, Ivy Bridge central processing units will get similar successors, one of which has actually been tested.
The engineering sample of the Ivy Bridge-EP CPU that got put through its paces not long ago is the sort of thing that will leave onlookers starry-eyed.... |
3 February 2012
05:38 GMT |
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Intel's most powerful central processing unit from the upcoming Ivy Bridge collection is going to be known as Core i7 3770K and has been benchmarked, apparently. The benchmarking results that have made their way to the Internet originate with OBR-Hardware, which is not the most reliable of sources. Still, ev... |
2 February 2012
02:47 GMT |
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The latest installment of the Cloud Fundamentals Video Series – which has Laura Posey as guest - focuses on one of the most important topics related to cloud computing: benchmarking and evaluation.
When it comes to choosing a specific product in this segment, companies need to assess the pros and cons for th... |
27 January 2012
09:38 GMT |
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The Radeon HD 7770 graphics card from Advanced Micro Devices is supposed to be a mainstream board but recent findings suggest it is stronger than people might think. That is not to say that Advanced Micro Devices has changed its naming scheme and made the 7770 part of the high-end spectrum. Rather, the board'... |
30 December 2011
01:44 GMT |
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With just a few more weeks to go until Intel officially introduces its next-generation Atom processors for mobile devices, code named Medfield, the first performance figures regarding this system-on-a-chip (SoC) device were leaked on the Web.
The system used for providing these numbers was actually an Intel-designed... |
27 December 2011
02:50 GMT |
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Looks like a slide showing the tessellation performance of the long-awaited AMD Radeon HD 7970 graphics card has finally appeared.
According to it, the card loads better than the Radeon HD 6970 in pretty much every instance particularly the games S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat and Crysis 2.
The Unigine Heaven benc... |
16 December 2011
04:54 GMT |
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Phoronix Test Suite, the most comprehensive benchmarking and testing platform available for Linux and designed to carry out qualitative and quantitative benchmarks in a clean and easy-to-use manner, has now reached version 3.6. The final and stable version of Phoronix Test Suite 3.6, dubbed Arendal, is now available ... |
13 December 2011
10:45 GMT |
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There aren’t too many users to appeal to the services of PassMark’s BurnInTest application; but those that need a tool to stress a computer system for endurance, reliability and stability should know that a new build has just rolled out.
BurnInTest 7.0 Build 1005 corrects a crash bug on startup, which m... |
12 December 2011
04:25 GMT |
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The Asus Transformer Prime may not be available for purchase yet, but this hasn’t stopped YouTube user rubberotter from posting a short video review of the tablet based on its experience with a pre-production unit.The video has been removed since then, but Tablet Community managed to take a look at it and repor... |
24 November 2011
06:11 GMT |
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A little more than a week ago, OCZ shared with us some preliminary performance data about its upcoming Octane SSD based on a in-house developed Indilinx Everest controller and now the first benchmark of the drive made its appearance online.The bench comes courtesy of the AnadTech website which has received an Octane ... |
23 November 2011
06:11 GMT |
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After the graphics performance of the Lenovo LePad K2 was leaked at the end of last week, it's now time for another Nvidia Kal-El-powered tablet to reveal its secrets, this being the upcoming Acer Iconia Tab A510.Just like in the case of the LePad K2, the leaked graphics performance results also come from the GL... |
21 November 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Early benchmark tests indicate that Apple’s iPhone 4S screams in terms of performance. It’s about 70 percent faster than the iPhone 4, and almost just as fast as the powerful iPad 2.Pitted against various powerful smartphones in several benchmark tests, the iPhone 4S scored significantly higher than most ... |
11 October 2011
05:43 GMT |
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AMD is just about ready to launch its 8-core FX-Series central processing units and, in the meantime, the lucky few who got it early have supplied the web with benchmarks.
A certain user from Overclockers.ua, going by the handle of blood_angel, put the soon-to-be launched AMD FX-8120 CPU through some benchmarks. ... |
10 October 2011
05:27 GMT |
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Overclocking can be a fickle mistress at times, since many things can go wrong, but this doesn't take away from the prestige that people who pull it off gain, and this applies to the winners and all other contestants, of this year's MSI Overclocking Arena.Micro-Star International held an overclocking compe... |
8 October 2011
07:34 GMT |
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Samsung's Galaxy Note was present on the floor at the IFA 2011 show in Berlin, and got benchmarked right there on the spot, showing the best results ever. As can be seen in the video embedded below (the good stuff starts at the 5 minutes point), the new Android-based smartphone from Samsung is capable of delive... |
6 September 2011
04:39 GMT |
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Motorola DROID Bionic is the next big thing that should become available for purchase in the United States on the airwaves of Verizon Wireless, and some more info on it emerged.
Only a few days ago, we learned that the first DROID Bionic units were being delivered to Verizon stores around the country, and those ... |
5 September 2011
03:18 GMT |
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That Intel is working on a new generation of Atom chips is no mystery, but there hasn't been a clear idea of what users can expect from the CPUs, until now that is.
Intel is getting closer to the time when it updates its product portfolio, even if it might not do it all at once.
Among other things, there ... |
27 August 2011
04:34 GMT |
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AMD has recently updated its Vision micro-site with the first official 3DMark Vantage benchmark results of the company's upcoming Llano accelerated processing units (APUs), which are supposed to make their debut at Computex 2011.
The results have been removed from the site by now, but Nordic Hardware has manage... |
26 May 2011
16:01 GMT |
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While there is still almost a month to go until the first AMD processors built on the Bulldozer architecture make their official entrance, some Chinese users have already managed to get their hands on such chips and even ran some quick benchmarks.
Just as the Bulldozer CPU that was spotted earlier, this processor ... |
9 May 2011
16:41 GMT |
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It's hard to explain why a browser 'feels' better or faster than another, but it's very easy to compare clear numbers. Which is why benchmarks are always cited to 'show' that one browser is faster (and therefore better?) than the next. But benchmarks can't really be trusted.This is ... |
5 May 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Japanese mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson is getting ready for the release of a series of new devices, as some of the latest leaks shows, and the just spotted Sony Ericsson Azusa could be one of them.The mobile phone has just made an appearance on NenaMark, the Android benchmark for hardware accelerated graphics tha... |
2 May 2011
10:46 GMT |
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Analyze systemThe target of this module is to show you details about the system as well as check volumes for any defective sectors and attempt repair.You will have the basic details on hardware components such as CPU, motherboard, hard disk(s) and RAM, but software is not left aside either. The three sub-menus in &ld... |
30 April 2011
07:41 GMT |
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Last week, Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation announced the launch of a new smartphone running under Google's Android operating system, the HTC Sensation, previously known as the HTC Pyramid, and some more info on the handset's graphical capabilities emerged. The new Android mobile phone was test... |
20 April 2011
09:26 GMT |
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Futuremark confirmed yesterday the already announced PCMark 7 will soon be available to the general public. The release date has been pinned to May 3, 2011 and the application is set to be launched in three editions: Basic (free), Advanced and Professional.PCMark 7 is designed to continue on the same line as its more... |
15 April 2011
08:11 GMT |
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Even though the first Pentium processors based on the Sandy Bridge architecture won't become official until May 22, a few benchmarks detailing the performance of the new chips have already made their way onto the Web and suggest that the CPUs are a great deal faster than their predecessors.
The benchmarks app... |
14 April 2011
16:21 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless has been long rumored to plan the release of a direct successor for the DROID X smartphone from Motorola it launched on shelves last year, and some more info on the said device started to emerge. Following a series of reports on the possible specs that the new handset, supposedl... |
6 April 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Leading mobile chip maker Qualcomm is expected to bring to the market in the not too far future a new product that would fit inside high-end smartphones, the MSM8x60 chipset, which was recently benchmarked and reviewed inside Qualcomm's own mobile development platform (MDP).The chip is reportedly headed to the ... |
2 April 2011
12:01 GMT |
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PCs nowadays can do a lot of things, and it is benchmarks that users employ in their effort to learn just how well their own configurations run, like PCMark 7, which Futuremark just announced.No doubt consumers have seen and heard of many of the past year's most promising developments, including but not limited... |
21 March 2011
12:07 GMT |
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One of the mobile phones that HTC Corporation is expected to bring to the market during the ongoing year would be the HTC Pyramid, which made it to the headlines quite a few times before, and which was rumored to prove one of the most appealing new handsets from the company.However, it appears that things might not ... |
17 March 2011
06:49 GMT |
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The latest issue of one of the world’s most popular benchmark tools for gaming PCs, 3DMark 2011 is finally up for grabs. This edition is designed to measure the performance of your system’s gaming performance, focusing on DirectX 11. 3DMark 2011 comes in three versions, two paid (Advanced and Professiona... |
7 December 2010
09:07 GMT |
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The DirectX 11 3DMark 11 gaming benchmark is proceeding according to plan and, though it will only be available in the third quarter of the ongoing year, it has already been demonstrated on video. Meanwhile, consumers cannot have forgotten that, in addition to this tool, there is a certain other benchmark that can ta... |
25 May 2010
10:04 GMT |
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Although some tests have shown an improvement in the cooling systems employed by Apple’s new MacBook Pro computers, one series of tests conducted by PC Authority has shown that the Core i7-equipped MacBook Pro can hit 100 degrees Celsius. The writeup reveals that, “During our review of the new 17in Macbo... |
27 April 2010
05:04 GMT |
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With all modern web browsers battling over JavaScript performance, there is a need for ways to reliably measure it. One benchmark that has proven very popular is SunSpider, created by the Webkit team. The benchmark is regularly used to compare various JavaScript engines, but, with things moving so fast in this area, ... |
8 April 2010
05:56 GMT |
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Just days ahead of NVIDIA's imminent release of the highly-anticipated Fermi-based GeForce GTX 480 and 470 graphics cards, UNIGINE has announced the release of the new Heaven 2.0 benchmark. The new benchmark is designed to support the latest DirectX 11 graphics cards and enable computer enthusiasts to put their ... |
24 March 2010
07:09 GMT |
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