Intro
So, with VMware Fusion Pro now being free, I wanted to do some testing to see if I can make the switch from Parallels, and save myself from having to renew my Parallels at the end of next month. I've been running Parallels on Appel Silicon since 2021, and VMware Fusion Player on Apple...
Browser benchmarks: Brave vs Safari
Since Sonoma I am active user of Brave web browser. For many years I was a fan of Safari. And here is why things now changed…
Environment
MacBook Pro w/ M1 Max CPU, 32 GB RAM. External monitor w/ MacBook closed lid. Sonoma 14.1.2.
Brave Version 1.60.125...
Hello
I'm looking for some benchmark results comparing the 16" M3 Max 14-CPU / 30-GPU vs 16-CPU / 40-GPU models with regards to the Davinci Resolve benchmark test by Puget Bench.
Are there any owners of either of the above machines who could kindly run this test and report the results?
Puget...
I've been running on two computers for the last two years: Dec 2015 iMac loaded to the max for the time. Dell G7 maxed in late 2020 with a big Nvidia card, etc.
Got my new Mac Mini Pro fully loaded with 1TB internal drive. What I've experienced is a little mind blowing for the money.
Boot...
Hi.
I've run a few tests on my new MBP 14'' with the low-end M2-Pro (10 core).
I'm particularly impressed with the efficiency cores!
In a compile test using clang to compile an Open Source project, I found
that doing a parallel build with the 4 efficiency cores takes ~ 6 times longer
than the...
From the evidence I've seen, I believe firmly that people are vastly overhyping the effects of the throttling in the M2 MacBook Air.
The YouTube review I've seen so far with the most thorough benchmarks is Dave2D's, and he went so far as to say that "if you're someone that wants a very powerful...
Like many prospective M2 MacBook Air buyers, I have seen GregsGadgets' game benchmark video showing the M2 Air with 8 GPU cores outperforming the 10 GPU core unit, side by side -- presumably due to more significant thermal throttling in the 10-GPU core unit due to the additional cores.
Greg...
I compared the internal 10 Gbit/s network adapter of my base model Mac Studio (Max) with an external Thunderbolt 3 10 Gbit/s network adapter from Sonnet.
Internal:
External:
The difference seems to be a more conservative power ramp up (take a look at the beginning and the end of the graph)...
Hello,
This may not be an issue with my machine but I wanted to reach out for advise anyways.
I recently purchased a mid-2010 MacBook Pro 15" and was troubleshooting issues with the computer, I believed that there was a bad GPU so I was trying to follow this guide...
Thought it would be interesting to share this tidbit. Please add your own :)
Machine is a 13" Macbook Pro (2020, 2.0 Ghz Intel i5 CPU)
Geekbench 5 CPU benchmark:
Regular run:
Single core: 1240
Multi core: 4443
Low-Power Mode (on battery):
Single core: 820
Multi core: 3447
Seems like the base...
This is purely for my own indulgence. I'm replacing the i7 3.1ghz Early-2015 13" MBP that has been amazing for all these years with a 14" M1 Pro 10/16/16 machine. It's mainly for software development and Lightroom usage. In researching there are a ton of M1 (Air and Mini) versus Intel Mac Pro...
GravityMark is a free cross-platform and cross-API GPU benchmark with native support of Metal and Apple silicone.
Check the stability of your systems and compare the performance of different platforms by drawing an enormous amount of asteroids.
https://gravitymark.com/
Hi guys,
For some time, there has been a manual benchmark in DaVinci Resolve referred to as "Standard Candle". It's based on a short h.264 HD clip with a few standardised node setups: Blur and Noise Reduction. Maybe you are familiar with it?
At any rate, as many have moved to UHD projects I've...
One of my favourite mobile phone websites (GSMarena - visiting since forever) reviewed the iPhone 12 pro.
They did the Antutu benchmark and it did well, however it was as strong as the max or the mini. Usually in the past when I run these tests I get a much lower score. i ran the benchmark and...
I just bought a new MBA (i5/16GB/256). I ran some tests in Logic and Cinebench to compare it with my old Air, and thought some here might be interested in what I found.
With the talk of throttling, and cooling limitations I wanted to see how it compares to the old Airs. If this new Air isn't...
Has anyone else benchmarked their MBP 16 SSD on or seen a benchmark result?
I used BlackMagic on my 2TB SSD. The results of my testing (repeated over 3 days now):
Write Speed (average over multiple tests): 2825 MB/s with highest at nearly 2850 MB/s
Read Speed (average over multiple tests)...
Hey guys,
I recently got the opportunity to grab a Mac Pro 2010, dual CPU 3.46Ghz, 128GB ram, with a radeon RX580 8GB graphic card, and I thought, good deal! I had a Mac Pro 2010, dual CPU 3.33Ghz, 64GB ram with a Geforce GTX980 4GB graphic card, not bad either, I figured I could sell mine and...
I'm trying to come up with a plan on if I should stick with my cMP for another year+, or if I should use this next year to hack Catalina onto it and try to off-ramp (sell and buy) onto another platform.
I mostly use my Mac as a mac I can also occasionally code, transcode videos on and boot into...