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Galaxy S4 Performance Benchmark [vs. Android Phones]

March 28, 2013March 28, 2013 Tarandeep Singh

Samsung Galaxy SIV features world’s most powerful SoC (System on a chip) Exynos 5 Octa. Its the would’s first smartphone to feature a 8-core processor (only 4 can be ON at a time). Exynos 5 Octa chip has 4-core Cortex-A15 powerful processor clocked at 1.2Ghz. This CPU has immense raw power that can drive unparalleled computation power. To give you rough idea, Exynos 5 Dual (dual core) was the chip behind Nexus 10’s powerful and smooth experience. The same chip is now quad-core and put inside a smartphone. The accompanying…

iPad 4 GPU vs Nexus 10 vs iPad 3 Graphics Performance [Benchmark]

November 3, 2012November 3, 2012 Tarandeep Singh

iPad 3 or early 2012 New iPad was the first tablet to support a high resolution Display. The trend then shifted everywhere from aamzon Kindle HD to Google’s flagship Nexus 10, making the displays even better. iPad 4 sports the same 260dpi Retina display as iPad 3, but facelifts the graphics processing by two folds with A6X, as per Apple. The previous generation chip, the A5X, had two ARM Cortex A9 cores running at 1GHz paired with four PowerVR SGX 543 cores running at 250MHz. The entire SoC integrated 4 x…

iPhone 5 Benchmark: CPU, GPU Graphics, Browser Performance vs Android

September 22, 2012September 22, 2012 Tarandeep Singh

The lines outside Apple Stores are finally over and most fanboys already have iPhone 5. The excitement was 70% higher than iPhone 4S, length of waiting lines outside the stores was the proof. We had initial iPhone 5 vs. Galaxy S3 CPU Benchmark and Galaxy SIII took the crown. Now that we’ve access to real device, its time to compare each aspect of the Benchmark and nominate one good winner. Related: Complete iPhone 5 Specs vs. iPhone 4S Let’s Benchmark iPhone 5 vs. Galaxy S3 vs. iPhone 4S vs. other iOS devices…

iPhone 5 vs. Galaxy SIII Benchmark [Performance]

September 17, 2012September 22, 2012 Tarandeep Singh

For power users, It all boils down to specs, when smartphones are put to fight head-to-head. Even though Benchmarks are synthetic, they can reveal a lot of phone’s performance in real world. Geekbench, a cross platform benchmarking tool has been used to measure the performance of industry’s leading smartphones and Tablets. The results are very different from one would imagine. Update: We now have handson Complete iPhone 5 Benchmarks: CPU, GPU Graphics, Browser Performance vs. Android vs. iOS iPhone 5 Benchmarks iPhone 5 scores a score of 1601 on Geekbench. The…

iPad A5X vs Tegra 3 Android [CPU, GPU Benchmark, Gaming Performance]

March 19, 2012March 19, 2012 Tarandeep Singh

When Apple announced the new iPad, they directly took a shot at Nvidia with their latest Graphics processor hybrid chipset: Tegra 3. Apple claimed that A5X is at least 3x times faster than the Tegra 3 and 4x times faster in graphics performance. Obviously, Nvidia wasn’t happy with pointless comparison till everyone saw it in practice. Well, the first benchmarks are here and results have us under mixed feelings. Apple was right but it was wrong too. Read on to find out how. The New iPad with A5X was competed headson with…

Chrome 14 vs Firefox 7 vs Opera vs IE9 Benchmark

September 28, 2011September 28, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

There was a time in Browser wars when every performance test was Owned by Chrome or Opera. Firefox continues to dominate the market share with Chrome trying to fill the gap. Firefox 7 is released and its back to re-capture those early days when it used to be among the leaders. Lets see how they bechmark against each other for various tests: Test system: Tests were conducted on Core i7 Macbook 6gb DDR3 RAM, Windows 7 & OSX Lion. Matrix: A Relative matrix has been used to make graphs easy…

IE9 vs Chrome 10 vs Firefox 4 Benchmarks

March 16, 2011March 16, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

The browser wars has always brought good stuff for us: All new set of features and significant speed improvements. And when we talk about speed, we trust Benchmarks more than anything else. But relying a single benchmarking technique is risky, and that’s why we execute all popular benchmarking tools before declaring a winner. IE9 vs Chrome 10 vs Firefox 4 Benchmark Platform: Windows 7 32bit on a Intel i7 Macbook Pro, 4GB RAM. We are not testing 64bit since IE9 has poor performance on 64bit as it still uses older javascript engine,…

Firefox 4 Beta 7 brings Performance with Hardware Acceleration [Benchmarks]

November 11, 2010November 11, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Firefox 4 Beta 7 is now available with lots of performance polishes as it nears the final release. Mozilla has let loose the JaegerMonkey engine, enabled hardware graphics acceleration on Windows and Mac. Whats more is the exciting new integrated Sync with the Panorama/”Tab Candy” that looks great. Mozilla says their JaegerMonkey compiler, combined with their other improvements, brings new bar of performance to Firefox 4 being powered by a great page rendering engine. Their chart of three benchmark tests, shows what looks like some serious improvements over Firefox 3.x:…

AMD unveils 12-Core Opteron Processor

March 29, 2010March 29, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today released first x86 12-core processor, doubling the number of cores in the previous generation chip in its Opteron line, leaving Fastest Intel Processor 8 Core Nehalem-EX in the dust. The new 12-core Opteron is code-named “Magny-Cours” would fall under AMD Opteron 6100 Series. The multi-socket processor features a dual-die each featuring 6 cores with total of 12 MB L3 cache, built using 45 nm fabrication technologies. The Technology AMD has pumped up a lot of new features including 4 memory channels, HyperTransport technology 3.0, a fourth…

IE9 vs. Chrome vs. Firefox vs. Opera Performance

March 16, 2010March 16, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

Internet Explorer 8 and lower showed the world that a browser can have poor underlying javascript execution engines, lack of Modern web support (HTML5, CSS3) and poor threads that render webpages sluggishly for most users. But it’s time to change it all. Microsoft has built the new browser ground up and lead innovation to let the industry to follow. IE9 is the First browser to support full GPU acceleration (Direct 2D) Rendering which means your graphics card is now put to good use. Earlier to this Firefox 3.7 nightly showed some GPU…

Opera 10.5 - Fastest Browser on Earth

February 11, 2010March 2, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

A month after the preview of Opera 10.5 alpha, and Beta, comes the Stable 10.5 for windows. Opera claims it’s latest offering, Opera 10.5 Stable, to be the fastest Browser on Earth for Windows. But the same is true for every platform. Update: Opera 10.5 Stable for Windows Released at Opera.com Here is the summary of stuff that’s new with Opera 10.5. Official benchmarks Opera revealed a while ago: But Opera didn’t Compare the SunSpider results to Chrome 5, which is the fastest browser. So we decided to do our own…

Chrome 5 - Fastest Browser

January 30, 2010February 13, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

It was hardly a few days back when Chrome 4 became stable and now comes the new version. Chrome is growing fast, within time-span of 2 years, it hits v5 in the developer builds. The list of changes so far is fairly small for PC users. But the javascript performance improvement is again noticeable. On the contrary, Mac users will notice a bit more of a difference, with fixes addressing plugin stability and crashing while dragging tabs, a slightly improved cookies manager, and minor tweaks to Chrome’s task manager. On…

IE9 Features, Benchmarks

November 19, 2009March 20, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

Just how bad can an Internet Browser be? Internet Explorer 8 and lower showed the world that a browser can have poor underlying javascript execution engines, lack of Modern web support (HTML5, CSS3) and poor threads that render webpages sluggishly for most users. What is HTML 5 and FAQ Things are going to change, Microsoft at PDC 09 told the world that they want to change the face IE had been living with. With IE9 Microsoft has promised to take care of JavaScript, web standards, and graphics technology. Update: IE9…

Windows 7 vs Ubuntu 9.10

November 7, 2009February 26, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

I love Windows 7 but I can’t give up by favorite Linux OSeither. So, I finally decided to do a Performance Benchmark Showdown to decide who gets to rule on my PC. Probably, everyone knows what’s new in both of them. I’ve thought long and hard about usage comparison, Windows proves out to be higher on ease of use. On the other side I have years of Windows experience and a lot less with Ubuntu but I still can work with both without any trouble. Software: Windows 7 Bunded software is poor, however, lots…

Chrome for Mac - Browser Benchmark

October 27, 2009October 27, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

Chrome’s impressive success on Windows platform has grabbed huge interest in the Google’s browser among the web enthusiasts, geeks and developers. Primary Reasons: Speed, and more recently, Extensions on Chrome 4. But if you don’t like Windows 7, don’t worry, Chrome is becoming better on Snow Leopard Recently, we have seen pre-beta builds (chromium) appearing for Linux and Mac. I must admit, I was less than impressed. Chromium builds have been a unstable and unrealiable — UI failures, bugs, and Blue Tab of Deaths “Awww Snap!” Even Google co-founder Sergey Brin…