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This entire article should be taken with a heavy grain of salt for multiple reasons. - The 3570 benchmark seems plausible based on M4 core numbers. - The lower score is ridiculous. There is no way the 18pro is going to be slower than the 17pro chip. - Forget about accurate multicore scores for...

“Rumors have been swirling for months now, and the latest suggests Apple will adopt SoftBank-owned Arm's newest V9 chip design in its next-gen smartphones…” Comments like this make it clear the author doesn’t understand the difference between chip design and instruction set architecture...

When you say this blows away an M3 Mac, you just sound foolish. For example, for handbrake, I’ll bet you’re not using the hardware encoder. You also didn’t compare the Mac for GPU performance where you know it’s faster. Also, no single core CPU comparisons like web performance, etc. Yes...

Your claim that the X Elite is faster than the M3 pro doesn’t appear to be true. Your posted numbers are low. They’re even lower than those found on the official Mac chart on the Geekbench website. The official numbers are also conservative compared to many actual results posted. I’d suggest...

"Snapdragon X Elite features 4 CPU cores, 4 GPU cores and 4 NPU cores — totalling 12 high-performance cores." LOL... You have to love it when someone's job is a "computing writer" and can't even regurgitate provided specs. The X elite has 12 CPU performance cores. The number of GPU and NPU...

The Handbrake encoding test clearly aren't using the "AppleToolbox" option which uses the hardware encoder an is an order of magnitude faster. It's one thing if you want to just isolate the performance of the CPU, but people using these machines for encoding video will see MUCH greater...

“Apple has once again leapt ahead of the competition“ Leaping ahead of the competition implies the competition has been ahead of Apple. That hasn’t been the case for many years now. Realistically, the Android world is struggling to leap ahead of the A13 much less the A14, A15 or A16.

FWIW, I'm getting higher Geekbench 5 scores on my iPhone 12 Pro. Singe core: 1602 Multi-core: 4133

I'm pretty interested to see what they do with the 5.4" phone. If they don't gimp it too much compared to the 6.1", I'd prefer to get the smaller phone.

I really don't understand why this is a story. The Geekbench 5 scores for the A12z chip were already widely understood from the iPad Pro. Yes, of course the new Apple Silicon chips will be much more powerful. We already know this.

Killuaxgod wrote: "not as large of a jump compared to 7-> 8/X" True, the change in the CPU performance was rather disappointing. Of course, the fact that Apple can basically do almost nothing with it and still have class leading performance is pretty impressive. In this case, Apple seems to...

Some on this forum are suggesting it's better to let people vote on pictures. I disagree. Without exception, the masses will always choose the over saturated images that are not actually the best quality. The approach of choosing the best picture and stating the reasons for the preference is...

Given that none of the OEMs are publishing how many units the ship and that they are often lumped into some "other" category along with other devices and services, it would be interesting to see how Strategy Analytics comes up with their guestimates.

It's funny. There are many comments on this thread from people who don't believe the results because the display is manufactured by Samsung. It's a reasonable thought.... why would Samsung provide a better quality display to Apple? In reality, people need to understand that this is not a...