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Rumor: Upcoming A9 processor could show 20-30% improvement over A8

If nothing else, the A9 processor will offer a nice speed boost over its predecessor. That’s what a graph of the forthcoming processor’s performance seems to indicate, Apple’s upcoming A9 chip beating out Samsung’s 8-core chips with a single-core score of 2090 and a multi-core tally of 3569, compared to the respective averages of 1611 […]

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Initial iPhone 6 Plus benchmarks show lower FPS rate, new benchmarking tools, additional pixels taken into consideration

In spite of some nifty new hardware, the iPhone 6 Plus may in fact generate a lower frames per second rate than the iPhone 6 or iPhone 5s handsets when it comes to rendering 2D and 3D graphics at its native resolution. Per AppleInsider, a set of GFXBench 3.0 GPU benchmarks published in an initial […]

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Hardware MacBook Air News

Haswell-based MacBook Air sports record-breaking SSD benchmark test results, PCIe bus cited

If you were considering snagging a brand new, just-released MacBook Air notebook, you’re going to like this. Per 9to5Mac and French web site MacBidouille, Apple’s new Haswell-powered MacBook Airs produced SSD read and write speeds so fast in bench tests that they initially thought it must have been a bug in their test software. A […]

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Primate Labs testing shows 3-5% performance bump for updated Retina Display MacBook Pro notebooks

If you waited a bit for the newer Retina display MacBook Pros, then you get to feel somewhat wise at this moment in time. Per the cool cats at Primate Labs, a series of cross-platform Geekbench 2 tests founds slight jumps in performance for the new models. The 13-inch model, which got a 100MHz bump […]

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Early Ivy Bridge benchmark tests surface, show appreciable improvements in graphics, overall performance

It’s the benchmarks that make an upcoming technology that much more interesting. Per CPU World, a series of benchmark tests demonstrates how the much-anticipated Ivy Bridge architecture in the upcoming MacBook Pro notebooks could show fairly significant improvements in performance, particularly in graphics. The chip being tested was the Core i7-3820QM, a 2.7 GHz processor […]