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A software test to quantify various aspects of a system's or application's performance and efficiency

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Lower Geekbench scores for 15" MacBook Pro late-2016 versus the 15" MacBook Pro mid-2014

Now that has been said - please remember that Geekbench is just an artificial benchmark. The performance you experience in using the Mac is not always reflected in such an artificial benchmark. …
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How to benchmark a NAS from a Mac (Neither fio nor bonnie++ work)

Bonnie++ can be installed this way: Download Bonnie++ 1.98 from here: https://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/bonnie++-1.98.tgz Extract the source code: tar -xvzf bonnie++-1.98.tgz Download the patch found …
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What is the PDF rendering speed of the iPad Pro 10.5"?

On the iMac you're running Geekbench 4, where the creator of Geekbench defined his own artificial benchmark for PDFs (this is the very nature of benchmark programs, not just Geekbench). …
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Why Geekbench result is three times lower than another result for the same model

No, minor differences in macOS versions do not have an impact of that magnitude on benchmark scores. …
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Performance comparison iOS 12 / iOS 11?

It would make more sense to create a benchmark that tries to focus on operating system operations - trying to spend as much time in the OS as possible and as little in user code. … Then you could compare that benchmark value to the same benchmark value on the same exact device (i.e. same processor, etc.) but with a different OS version. …
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How to comprehensively benchmark SSDs on OS X?

A great tool for doing this type of benchmarking is fio For Mac OS X it is available through homebrew. You install it with the simple command: brew install fio This command requires that you have h …
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What i7 MacBooks have?

You have the Intel i7-4770HQ CPU, which is listed with a PassMarks score of 6,140. In comparison, the current base model 16" MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon features the M1 Pro 10-core CPU, which is li …
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