Upcoming Lenovo laptop with Snapdragon X Elite spotted in Geekbench database
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12-core Snapdragon X Elite X1E78100 SoC

The newest listing in the Geekbench database detailed a rather interesting Lenovo laptop that comes with Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon X Elite SoC based on 4nm Oryon CPU cores.

Apple’s benchmarks disappoint
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Slight improvements but it nothing to do with the design

While the Tame Apple Press is telling the world+dog that Apple's new M3 processors will cure cancer the Geekbench 6 benchmark tells a slightly different story.

Geekbench gets an update
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Geekbench 6 for Windows, Linux, macOS and Android

Popular and simple benchmark Geekbench is getting an update.

Geekbench scores show Tensor 2 with only marginal performance improvements
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Not much better than its predecessor 

The second-generation Tensor chipset will be named the Tensor G2, which will be the brains behind the Pixel 7 and the Pixel 7 Pro, may not be much better than the last generation.

Possible Intel Arc A770 spotted in Geekbench
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ACM-G10 GPU with 32 Xe cores and 512 EUs

A possible flagship Intel Arc A770 graphics card has been spotted in Geekbench, running at 2.4GHz.

OnePlus 9 accused of cheating on Geekbench
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Optimisation tools

Popular benchmark site Geekbench has removed OnePlus 9 benchmarks from its charts due to allegations that the company designed Oxygen OS optimization tools in such a way that they could be viewed as cheating.

Possible AMD 3rd gen Threadripper spotted on Geekbench
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Codename Sharkstooth

What appears to be a 3rd generation Ryzen Threadripper CPU based on Zen 2 architecture has been spotted on Geekbench, scoring some impressive single- and multi-threaded numbers.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 675 SoC spotted in benchmarks
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Beats Snapdragon 710 SoC in Antutu

An unknown device with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 675 SoC has been spotted in a couple of benchmark databases, showing some performance details for this 11nm mid-range chip announced back in October last year.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 benchmark shows up
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A significant step forward in Geekbench 4

The press usually relies too much on benchmarks but they at least tell you that a subject A is better or worse than subject B. The recently posted GeekBench of Snapdragon 855 shows that the new 7nm SoC from Qualcomm scores much better than its predecessor.

AMD Ryzen 5 2600X and Ryzen 7 2700X spotted in Geekbench
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Higher-clock and higher scores

Both the upcoming Ryzen 5 2600X and the Ryzen 7 2700X have been spotted in the Geekbench database, revealing most of the details about these two upcoming Ryzen 2000 series CPUs based on 12nm Zen+ CPU architecture.