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HTC One S benchmarks leak

, Feb 23rd 2012 Discuss [1]

The HTC One S (aka the HTC Ville) isn't expected to make its official debut until Mobile World Congress next week, according to the leaks, but some benchmarking results for the dualcore smartphone have already emerged. The NenaMark2 testing, which confirms the rumored 1.5GHz dualcore, qHD display and Adreno 225 graphics chip, delivers a 60.60fps score, impressive considering this is undoubtedly running non-final software. Read The Full Story

LG X3 Tegra 3 benchmarks leak

, Feb 15th 2012 Discuss [4]

Earlier this month we talked about specifications for a new LG smartphone expected to show up for the first time at MWC. The smartphone is called the LG X3 and is known internally as the P880. The main feature is the Nvidia Tegra 3 chip under the hood. Today, benchmarks have surfaced that give an idea of how well the smartphone will perform against other devices already on the market. Read The Full Story

OCZ Octane SSD reviews round-up

, Nov 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

This week we’re seeing the fabulously powerful and relatively inexpensive OCZ Octane 1TB 2.5-inch SSD hit the review block, and what we’re seeing here is that the manufacturers have backed up their claims in more ways than one. Price per gigabyte on this device is lower than the competition while the strength its displaying in this first round of hands-on looks is showing it to be more than a contender in the benchmark department. Could this be your next solid state drive, dare we ask?

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Galaxy Nexus benchmarks show device to be near Galaxy S II

, Nov 18th 2011 Discuss [42]

This week and throughout the next we’ll be continuing to explore the many facets of the Galaxy Nexus both inside and out, this newest post showing off the power of the device running this vanilla version of Ice Cream Sandwich with some benchmark tests. You’ll see CF-Bench, Linpack, Quadrant Advanced, and SunSpider (web browser test). Each of the tests run in their own app from the market while SunSpider runs in the native WebKit web browser that comes with the device. Will this newest Samsung device outdo the Galaxy S II, or will it prove to be less of a powerhouse than Samsung’s hottest selling space-themed handset?

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Qualcomm Vellamo Benchmarking System [Hands-On]

, Jul 14th 2011 Discuss [3]

It’s Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc’s turn and it’s time to benchmark some heads. There’s a new benchmark in town, and this one’s aimed directly at the mobile browser performance of YOUR device. Where the major benchmarking systems we speak of most often test more general CPU power and 3D graphics prowess of single core, dual core, and all kinds of core mobile handset processors, here we’ve got not one, but a whole suite of tests set up to show the web browser performance of whichever handset you’re aiming to try out – and it works on tablets, of course, too!

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AMD Bulldozer Engineering Sample CPU details slip

, Jun 24th 2011 Discuss [0]

Anytime a new platform with processors and mainboards are in the works you can bet that there are engineering samples of the parts floating around well in advance of the CPU actually hitting stores. For instance, AMD ships out a bunch of the sample processors for all sorts of reasons. Some of them go to reviewers so they can write about the products on launch day, some go to partners that want to start working on system configurations before the parts launch, and some land other places. Read The Full Story

BAPco goes Cee Lo Green on AMD

, Jun 22nd 2011 Discuss [1]

I mentioned yesterday that AMD had pulled out of the industry group known as BAPco that produces the SYSmark benchmarking suite that is used widely for testing computer performance online and in print. AMD said that it wanted to support a benchmark suite that was based on open standards. BAPco benchmarks tend to use the software that is most popular in its test suite with the latest version SYSmark 2012 using Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Acrobat, WinZip, AutoCAD, and 3ds Max among others. Read The Full Story

PCMark 7 benchmarking app gets official release date and price

, Apr 15th 2011 Discuss [2]

All the computer geeks out there will love this news. Futuremark has announced that PCMark 7 will be launching soon and listed the price of the software and offered the launch date. This is the software that is used by people to test computers to compare their overall performance to other machines. This is one of those ePenis tests computer geeks love. Read The Full Story

Android browsing 52% faster than iPhone? Maybe, maybe not…

, Mar 17th 2011 Discuss [33]

The mobile browser speed wars continue, and the latest fray comes courtesy of website optimization firm Blaze with claims that Android is 52-percent faster than iPhone, and quicker – in real-world testing – on 84-percent of sites. That’s despite Apple’s much-vaunted Nitro JavaScript engine, new to iOS 4.3 on the iPhone and iPad 2. We spoke to Blaze to find out more about the testing process, and in what ways the company was interpreting the results.

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iPad 2 Browser Benchmarks

, Mar 2nd 2011 Discuss [13]

The iPad 2, Steve Jobs took to the stage to tell us, offers twice the performance of the original iPad and 9x the graphics performance, thanks to its dual-core 1GHz Apple A5 processor. Still, what does that mean for daily use? Considering most people spend their time on tablets browsing, we ran some side-by-side SunSpider benchmarking on Apple’s old and new iPads to see how the new model shaped up. Check out the results after the cut.

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MacBook Pro early 2011 benchmarks confirm huge performance leap

, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [13]

We've already been impressed by the quad-core speed boost shown by our early 2011 MacBook Pro review unit, but it seems the performance jolt is across the board with Apple's refreshed machines. Primate Labs - responsible for the Geekbench tool SlashGear uses to profile notebooks - has pulled together benchmarking results for the new range, and the improvement is dramatic. Read The Full Story

Notion Ink Adam: Benchmarks & Flash Testing

, Jan 5th 2011 Discuss [54]

As you’ve seen from our first hands-on, Notion Ink’s Adam tablet is a pretty smooth operator, but we wanted to see just how smooth. The company allowed us to load up an Android benchmarking app to see how the slate performs, but there are a few caveats to bear in mind.

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