Nvidia’s RTX 5050 benchmarks are in — and they’re not great
Nvidia has been a little circumspect when it comes to sending out review units for its newest RTX graphics cards as of late. (That’s why there’s no PCWorld review yet for the RTX 5050 or…
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Don’t trust those early Geekbench M3 Ultra benchmarks just yet
As is customary with all new Apple chips, the first leaked Geekbench benchmarking numbers for the M3 Ultra in the new Mac Studio have arrived. But before you think the numbers are disappointing or proof…
The first A18 Pro benchmarks are out, and it is FAST
The first seemingly legitimate benchmarks of Apple’s new A18 Pro chip have apparently leaked out, and they show a healthy boost in performance that should keep Apple on top of the smartphone performance charts for…
Forget benchmarks! Test your gaming PC with free Steam demos instead
You only have to read a few PC gaming hardware posts on reddit to see how many gamers there are out there unsure if their low-spec potato of gaming a PCs will run the latest…
Why I test gaming PCs with free Steam demos – not canned benchmarks
You only have to read a few PC gaming hardware posts on Reddit to see how many gamers there are out there unsure if their low-spec potato of a gaming PC will run the latest…
Snapdragon X Elite video deep-dive with benchmarks and tests galore
Microsoft is making a big push to get Windows laptops running Arm hardware, the same transition that Apple made over four years ago. Qualcomm is partner in the effort, putting its flagship Snapdragon X Elite…
Anthropic introduces Claude 3.5 Sonnet, matching GPT-4o on benchmarks
Anthropic / Benj Edwards On Thursday, Anthropic announced Claude 3.5 Sonnet, its latest AI language model and the first in a new series of “3.5” models that build upon Claude 3, launched in March. Claude…
Macworld Podcast: M4 benchmarks, stronger iPad Pros, iPadOS 17.5, and more
How fast is Apple’s new M4 chip? What’s the cost of breaking the screen for the new iPads? Was Apple’s latest ad oppressive? We talk about the latest iPad news in this episode of the…
Benchmarks show the M4 iPad Pro is faster and smarter than an M3 MacBook Pro
The M4 chip is here, ushering in new state-of-the-art performance in AI with its fastest-ever Neural Engine, according to Apple. That’s fine and dandy, but what we’re really wondering is, how fast is the M4’s…
First MacBook Air benchmarks confirm the M3 is an M3
Just a day after Apple announced the new MacBook Air with an M3 chip, benchmarks of the new laptops have appeared in the Geekbench results browser. And based on what we’ve seen, it looks like…