benchmarks
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A Bunch Of Phones Just Got Busted For Inflating Benchmarks
The company behind PCMark’s benchmarking rankings has delisted roughly 50 devices from its system after reports surfaced that their RealTek processors were boosting performance during testing. This includes phones from major manufacturers such as Oppo, Realme, Xiaomi and Sony.
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Even With A GTX 1060, Is Intel’s Quad-Core Q6600 Good Enough?
PC hardware from a few years ago? Relics of another era. How about a decade old? You might as well be talking about fossilised remains. Yet, people still happily run gear such as Intel’s venerable Q6600, one of the company’s more overclockable quad-core chips, under the belief that it’s “good enough”. The benchmarks, however, tell…
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The State Of Cheating In Android Benchmarks: Everybody’s Doing It
Samsung has been blamed before for fudging the Anandtech has run the numbers and found that pretty much every smartphone maker is cheating.
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iPhone A7 Chip Benchmarks: Forget The Specs, It Blows Everything Away
We just ran benchmarks on Apple’s new iPhone 5s, revealing that, yup, this is the dopest smartphone silicon ever made. This thing freaking churns, crushing every other smartphone out there on both computational power and graphics. But if you look at common specs like core-count and clock speed for the hardware, you’d never know it.