Expect outstanding performance from the new iPad mini 7. Early benchmark scores demonstrate a significant boost in CPU speed. (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos)

An early benchmark result for the A18 Pro chip in the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max appears to have surfaced on the Geekbench 6 website. The single result shows that the A18 Pro is up to 18% faster than the A17 Pro chip. During its iPhone 16 event, Apple said the A18 Pro is up to 15% faster than the A17 Pro, so the result is within the ballpark of that claim. Here are the Geekbench 6 results for comparison: A18 Pro single-core score (one result): 3,409 single-core score (+18%) A17 Pro single-core score (average): 2,896 single-core score A18 Pro multi-core score (one result): 8,492 multi-core score (+18%) A17 Pro multi-core score (average): 7,192 multi-core scoreWith a…

The iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus are expected to be powered by an Apple A18 (perhaps branded “A18 Bionic”} with a 6-core processor and a 5-core GPU, compared to the six cores of the graphics processor in the A18 Pro powering the iPhone 16 Pro and flagship iPhone 16 Pro Max. The standard A18 processor will also have reduced cache size compared to the A18 Pro. Much more in the full article on MacDailyNews on Substack here. Apple’s A18 Pro-powered iPhone 16 Pro models expected to break the 4GHz speed barrier by MacDailyNews Read on Substack We are currently about 1/8th of the way to being sustainable with Substack subscriptions. Not a bad start! Please tell your friends about…

An alleged Geekbench 6 benchmark result for the lower-end version of the M4 chip with a 9-core CPU surfaced over the weekend, providing a first look at how it performs compared to the higher-end M4 chip with a 10-core CPU. The result indicates that the 9-core M4 chip is around 10% slower than the 10-core variant in terms of multi-core performance. While that outcome might seem obvious at first glance, the 9-core variant of the chip has three performance cores, instead of four in the 10-core variant, so this result was not guaranteed. Assuming that the Geekbench 6 listing is accurate, the 9-core M4 chip is still around 13% faster than the M3 chip for multi-core performance, and up to…

Find out how the Apple M4 processor in the 2024 iPad Pro outperforms its predecessor, the M3. The chip is expected to hit Macs this autumn. (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos)

Apple in collaboration with other browser engine developers has announced the release of Speedometer 3.0, described by Apple as "the best way yet to measure browser benchmark performance." Apple's WebKit team is excited to introduce Speedometer 3.0, a major update that better reflects the Web of today. It's built together by the developers of all major browser engines: Blink, Gecko, and WebKit with hundreds of contributions from companies like Apple, Google, Intel, Microsoft, and Mozilla. Apple's WebKit team originally released the benchmark tool in collaboration with the Google Chrome team in 2014, but this is the first time the Speedometer benchmark has been developed through a cross-industry collaboration supported by each major browser engine. The goal of developing and releasing…