Tag: Benchmark

  • Qualcomm Reveals Snapdragon 888 Benchmark Scores, Posts Significant Performance Gains Over Predecessor

    Qualcomm announced its latest flagship chipset for next year’s flagship smartphones earlier this month during the Snapdragon Summit. The Snapdragon 888 5G chipset is said to power many Android flagships next year. Now, the American chipmaker has revealed several benchmark scores for the Snapdragon 888 chipset from benchmarking platforms like AnTuTu, Geekbench, and more. The numbers released by Qualcomm show that the Snapdragon 888 SoC has posted impressive results in benchmark tests. The company usually allows third-party reviewers to have hands-on access to the latest Snapdragon reference design. However, the coronavirus pandemic forced the company to collate the results across leading industry benchmark testing system.

    Qualcomm has provided benchmark scores for the Snapdragon 888 based on the CPU, GPU, and AI use cases for platforms including AnTuTu, Geekbench, GFX Bench, AITuTu, Procyon, MLPerf, and Ludashi AIMark. The Snapdragon 888 SoC posted significant gains in benchmark scores as compared to its predecessor, the Snapdragon 865. On AnTuTu, the Snapdragon 888 scored an average of 735,439 score, higher than SNapdragon 865’s 541,899 points score on the same platform last year. On Geekbench, Snapdragon 888 posted a 1,135 points single-core score and a 3,794 points score for multi-core performance. This is above the Snapdragon 865’s 926 single core and 3,438 multi-core score on Geekbench. In other benchmark tests as well, the latest flagship chipset from Qualcomm showed impressive gains in early benchmark scores as compared to its predecessor, the Snapdragon 865.

  • Apple’s M1 MacBook Air smashes Windows on ARM in new benchmarks

    A benchmark test published on Tuesday shows a massive performance gap between Mac computers powered by Apple’s M1 chip and Windows on ARM machines running the latest 64-bit x86 apps via an official emulator.

    Conducted by PCWorld, the evaluation pits a Microsoft Surface Pro X against the new M1 MacBook Air, two devices that incorporate ARM processors.

    As noted by the publication, there are precious few ARM-based Windows boxes from which to choose as only two chips — Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx and Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 — power the platform. Microsoft’s derivative SQ1 and SQ2 processors, designed in partnership with Qualcomm, are in the Surface Pro X.

    PCWorld’s Windows testbed relied on a first-generation SQ1, though any gains derived from the more recent SQ2 are thought to be insignificant.

    The MacBook Air crushed the Surface Pro X in both single- and multi-score Geekbench 5 testing. Apple’s new laptop scored 1730 points in the single-core process, beating Surface’s score by just over 1000 points. Multi-core testing revealed an even larger disparity, with MacBook Air clocking 7454 points to Surface’s 2734 points.

  • RBI maintains status quo third time in a row; keeps benchmark lending rate unchanged at 4 pc

     RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday said that RBI will be maintaining accommodative monetary policy stance to support growth, keep inflation at targeted level. He also said that Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted unanimously to keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent.

    Accommodative stance of monetary policy to continue as long as necessary, to revive growth and mitigate impact of COVID19, also ensuring inflation is in control

    Nascent signs of economic recovery in Q2 of current fiscal: RBI Governor Das Committed to preserve depositors’ interest in financial system, says RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das

    Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was of the view that inflation is likely to remain elevated with some relief in the winter months from prices of perishables and bumper Kharif arrivals: RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das

    MPC decided to continue with accommodative stands of monetary policy as long as necessary, at least till current financial year & into next year to revive growth on a durable basis & mitigate the impact of COVID-19 while ensuring that inflation remains within target: RBI Governor

    Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted unanimously to keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent: RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das

    The Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) rate and the bank rate remain unchanged at 4.25%. The reverse repo rate remains unchanged at 3.35%: RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das