UL delists MediaTek-powered phones with suspect benchmarks
Published in Mobiles


No-one likes a cheater

Benchmarking outfit UL has delisted over 50 smartphone models powered by MediaTek processors from its popular list of the best smartphones after the outfit was caught cheating on benchmarks.

Intel caught pushing "dodgy" benchmarks
Published in News
Thursday, 07 November 2019 09:46

Intel caught pushing "dodgy" benchmarks


Tell me it isn't so

Chipzilla has been accused of fudging benchmarks to show the advantage of a dual Intel Xeon Platinum 9282 system versus the AMD EPYC 7742.

Intel may have commissioned some misleading benchmarks
Published in PC Hardware


But the press is still reporting them

On Monday, Intel unveiled the 9th Gen Core i9-9900K, which will rival AMD's Ryzen 2700X when it goes on sale in two weeks but may be over egging its performance pudding with the tech press.

First Ryzen 2 CPU benchmarks appear online
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 07 March 2018 13:22

First Ryzen 2 CPU benchmarks appear online


Ryzen 7 2000 running at up to 4.35GHz

A leak coming from South Korea has revealed some of the first performance details regarding AMD's upcoming 2nd generation Ryzen CPUs based on 12nm Zen+ architecture.

More AMD Ryzen 5 2500U benchmarks spotted
Published in AI
Monday, 27 November 2017 21:27

More AMD Ryzen 5 2500U benchmarks spotted


Notebookcheck pits it against Core i5-8250U

Although there were a handful of Ryzen Mobile notebooks announced, the HP Envy x350 15 was one of the first to ship and while we saw a couple of early benchmarks, the latest preview from Notebookcheck.net pits it against Intel's Kaby Lake Refresh Core i5-8250U CPU.

Razer Phone beats Samsung Galaxy S8+ in benchmarks
Published in Mobiles


Better cooling, higher clock or something else

One thing that caught our eye during Razer's presentation is the fact that it managed to beat Samsung's Galaxy S8+ in plenty of benchmarks - at least according to Razer's own slides.

AMD eight core SKU beats up Chipzilla
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:17

AMD eight core SKU beats up Chipzilla


In two CPU benchmarks

AMD was keen to show some performance figures of its upcoming eight core Ryzen SKU at the New Horizon event and has compared it to Intel's US $1049.99 priced Core i7-6900K eight core Broadwell-E CPU.

Intel Core i5 7600K benchmarks leaked
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 07 November 2016 19:08

Intel Core i5 7600K benchmarks leaked


Seven to 10 percent more performance than Skylake chip


A few days ago, Chinese tech website PCOnline got a hold of Intel’s upcoming Core i5 7600K processor based on its 14nm Kaby Lake architecture.

Google's Pixel smartphones get scrutinized
Published in Mobiles
Wednesday, 05 October 2016 22:56

Google's Pixel smartphones get scrutinized


Flagship price but no performance to match

Back when it appeared that Google was finally going head to head with flagship offerings from other companies, including Samsung's Galaxy smartphone or even Apple's iPhone it seems the firm has a long way to go.

Alleged Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080 benchmarks spotted
Published in Graphics


Scores higher than overclocked GTX 980 Ti 

Just a day ahead of the rumored May 6 event where Nvidia is expected to unveil its first Geforce graphics cards based on the Pascal architecture, alleged 3DMark benchmarks of the GTX 1080 have been spotted and it performance quite well.