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Tag: Benchmarks

iMac Pro shootout: 8-core vs. 10-core

Wednesday, March 7, 2018 1:00 pmWednesday, March 7, 20183 Comments

We were able to collect more 10-core iMac Pro CPU intensive benchmarks to compare with our 8-core iMac Pro…

Video demonstrates iPhone 6s performance before and after battery replacement

Tuesday, March 6, 2018 10:32 amTuesday, March 6, 20188 Comments

A video posted to YouTube over the weekend compares the operating performance of an iPhone 6s…

Samsung Galaxy S9 thoroughly beaten by Apple’s iPhone X/8/8 Plus in early benchmarks

Thursday, March 1, 2018 8:59 amThursday, March 1, 20183 Comments

In our testing we were able to confirm the GeekBench 4 scores already leaked…

Ars Technica reviews Apple’s iMac Pro: It’s MUCH faster

Sunday, February 18, 2018 11:47 am53 Comments

Some high-end professional Mac users are frustrated, and they have been for years…

Macworld reviews Apple’s new iMac Pro: ‘Mac Pro power in the shape of an iMac’

Friday, January 19, 2018 5:33 pmFriday, January 19, 201824 Comments

Four years since Apple last shipped a desktop Mac with the word ‘pro’ in the name…

Apple’s iMac Pro has a Thunderbolt 3 storage surprise for you

Friday, January 19, 2018 1:25 pmFriday, January 19, 20188 Comments

You can have external Thunderbolt storage connected to your iMac Pro that equals or rivals…

What if Apple’s iMac Pro had TWO Vega GPUs?

Tuesday, January 16, 2018 3:29 pmTuesday, January 16, 201812 Comments

With the help of macOS 10.13.3 beta 4, we were able to add a second Vega GPU to the iMac Pro…

Digital Arts reviews Apple iMac Pro: ‘Superbly designed workstation is most powerful Mac ever’

Friday, January 12, 2018 11:25 amFriday, January 12, 20183 Comments

Apple’s iMac Pro is finally here and I must say I’m impressed…

Benchmarks: 8-core and 10-core iMac Pros running pro apps

Thursday, January 11, 2018 1:01 pmThursday, January 11, 20181 Comment

Here are the 8-core and 10-core iMac Pros running additional pro apps compared to competing Macs…

iMac Pro PCIe-based flash storage: How fast versus other Macs?

Friday, January 5, 2018 3:07 pm10 Comments

The 2017 iMac Pro has dual NVMe PCIe-based flash modules as a boot volume…

Apple’s low-end 8-core iMac Pro benchmarked running pro apps

Friday, December 29, 2017 3:33 pmFriday, December 29, 20175 Comments

Here is the 8-core iMac Pro running popular pro apps…

Apple’s A11 Bionic chip in iPhone X and iPhone 8/Plus on par with 2017 MacBook Pro

Thursday, September 14, 2017 4:32 pmThursday, September 14, 201711 Comments

We expected improvements, but not to this extent…

Early benchmarks for the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

Thursday, September 7, 2017 6:00 pm6 Comments

When an eGPU mad scientist reported getting the RX Vega 64 to work with a Mac…

How much does an eGPU enhance the performance the 2017 iMac 5K?

Friday, July 7, 2017 2:27 pmFriday, July 7, 20171 Comment

If you are using your iMac 5K to edit video with DaVinci Resolve, you can get a big boost with…

Pro app Shootout: Apple’s 2017 fastest iMac 5K vs. cheese grater and trash can Mac Pros

Wednesday, June 21, 2017 4:26 pmWednesday, June 21, 20179 Comments

In response to popular demand, here are ten Pro App tests we ran on the fastest 2017 iMac 5K…

Geekbench: Apple’s new 27-inch iMac benchmarks

Wednesday, June 21, 2017 1:45 pmWednesday, June 21, 20178 Comments

The fastest Mac you can buy today…

The 2017 iMac 5K’s Pro 580 GPU versus previous iMac 5K and GeForce GTX 1070

Friday, June 16, 2017 11:25 amFriday, June 16, 201716 Comments

The Radeon Pro 580 in the 2017 iMac 5K is clearly faster than….

Bare Feats reviews LaCie Bolt3 Thunderbolt 3 Drive

Friday, February 24, 2017 3:04 pmFriday, February 24, 20174 Comments

When we read ‘up to 2800MB/s speeds,’ you can imagine how anxious we were to review…

Benchmarks: AKiTiO Node Thunderbolt 3 eGPU for Apple’s new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Thursday, February 2, 2017 1:30 pmThursday, February 2, 20177 Comments

The AKiTiO Node eGFX Box is the first Thunderbolt 3 GPU expander we have tested that is macOS friendly, runs at full Thunderbolt 3 bandwidth…

Benchmarks from Apple’s next-gen A10X processor show unmatched power

Wednesday, October 5, 2016 12:01 pmWednesday, October 5, 201618 Comments

Apple’s new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are far and away the most powerful smartphones the world has seen thus far…

Beast: Apple’s iPhone 7 A10 processor significantly faster than the iPhone 6s’ A9 in early benchmarks

Friday, July 15, 2016 5:35 pmFriday, July 15, 20169 Comments

The A10 SoC, which will ship with the iPhone 7, will allegedly be markedly faster than the A9 chip…

Will the ‘early 2016’ MacBook run pro apps as well as other Apple laptops?

Thursday, May 12, 2016 3:55 pmThursday, May 12, 20165 Comments

Will the ‘early 2016’ MacBook Retina 12-inch run Pro Apps if the projects are not too extreme?

How fast are striped RAID Flash drives on your Mac?

Monday, April 11, 2016 8:55 amMonday, April 11, 20162 Comments

Last week, I looked at whether partitioning or formatting USB flash drives in other ways made a difference…

Does your Mac Pro tower really need 12-cores?

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 2:28 pmWednesday, March 16, 201617 Comments

Do you need a 12-core Mac Pro tower to run Pro Apps faster or will a 6-core do as well?

Review: OWC’s 2TB Mercury Electra MAX SSD

Thursday, February 11, 2016 1:01 pm14 Comments

OWC just started shipping a 2TB version of the Mercury Electra 6Gbps SSD they call The MAX…

The Best Gaming Mac you can buy today is…

Friday, January 29, 2016 3:58 pm35 Comments

The pricey 2013 Mac Pro cylinder with dual FirePro D700s only makes sense if you run your games…

Benchmarks prove Apple’s new 12-inch Macbook can play modern games

Thursday, April 23, 2015 3:55 pmThursday, April 23, 201526 Comments

To evaluate the New Macbook’s gaming performance, we need a reference point…

Vroom! The new MacBook Pro literally is twice as fast as its predecessor

Monday, March 23, 2015 9:54 pmMonday, March 23, 20156 Comments

When Apple launched the new MacBook Pro earlier this month…

Swift performance in Apple’s Xcode 6.3 beta

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 11:25 am3 Comments

With last week’s announcement of a beta release of Xcode 6.3…

Apple’s 64-bit A8X-powered iPad Air 2 trounces Google’s Nexus 9 with Nvidia Denver Tegra K1

Tuesday, October 28, 2014 2:04 pm8 Comments

Apple’s new A8X Application Processor not only trounces Android tablets…

Apple takes a bite from Samsung; there could be worse to come

Tuesday, October 7, 2014 10:57 amTuesday, October 7, 201431 Comments

The third quarter included just 12 days of iPhone 6 sales…

Samsung posts biggest drop in earnings since 2009 on weak Galaxy phone sales

Monday, October 6, 2014 9:50 pmMonday, October 6, 201461 Comments

Samsung Electronics Co. posted its biggest drop in quarterly profit since…

Apple iPhone 6 Plus absolutely destroys anemic Samsung Galaxy S5, Galaxy Note 4 in graphics performance

Monday, October 6, 2014 3:28 pm23 Comments

No wonder there are no good games for Android…

Benchmarks: Apple’s 64-bit iPhone 6/Plus beat rivals in performance, battery life

Monday, September 22, 2014 9:37 amMonday, September 22, 201414 Comments

It seems that Apple has managed to do something quite incredible with battery life…

Apple’s new MacBook Pro performance benchmarks

Wednesday, July 30, 2014 11:35 amWednesday, July 30, 20147 Comments

On Tuesday Apple updated its MacBook Pro lineup…

Relax, Apple’s level of smartphone innovation is fine

Thursday, February 13, 2014 1:12 pmThursday, February 13, 201410 Comments

We looked at four of the most common Apple criticisms…

6-core Mac Pro vs. iMac

Monday, January 27, 2014 12:27 pm21 Comments

A series of benchmarks on the 6-core Mac Pro vs. quad-core iMac…

Apple’s 12-core Mac Pro scores 33,000 in Geekbench

Sunday, January 12, 2014 1:47 pm46 Comments

The 2-core Mac Pro popped up on Geekbench…

4-Core Shoot Out: 2013 Mac Pro vs. 2013 iMac

Monday, January 6, 2014 11:29 amMonday, January 6, 201421 Comments

When it comes to CPU crunching, the ‘late 2013’ iMac Core i7 4-core…

Futuremark delists Android devices for cheating 3DMark benchmarks; Samsung and HTC ousted

Tuesday, November 26, 2013 11:31 amTuesday, November 26, 201324 Comments

Futuremark just delisted a bunch of devices from its 3DMark benchmark…

Apple’s 64-bit iPad Air benchmarks are insane

Wednesday, October 30, 2013 4:32 pmWednesday, October 30, 201348 Comments

From a performance standpoint the iPad Air is a great upgrade to the iPad (4th Generation)…

Apple’s revolutionary 64-bit iPhone 5s’ graphics are insane; competitors blown away (with benchmarks)

Monday, October 28, 2013 9:29 amMonday, October 28, 201328 Comments

When the news broke regarding Apple’s drive to double the speed of the iPhone…

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