1. That was using Geekbench 3, which according to Linus, "showing partiality for ARM64 devices and being a bad performance measure of x86-based system." Geekbench 4 released in 2016 is much better.
2. The "2012" Mac Pro stated is actually using 2008 CPU, with the lowest configuration.
With the support of external 4K Monitor from USB-C, all I wanted now is Wireless Keyboard and Mouse.
Give Xcode, and lots / most dev can switch over to programming on iPad.
We can start having / playing PUBG, C&C, Online Games with Keyboard and Mouse.
And hopefully some day they will have at least 8GB Memory on iPad Pro, or even 16G.
The one thing that worries me though is the insane amount of money required for storage. And I don't want to rely on iCloud all the time. I just wish they do Time Capsule Type Network Storage devices again.
I think there's a large number of people who feel they are gladly paying for this restriction in the sense of "if I buy this I'm less likely to get "hacked".
(but TBF I only share my software with my nerd friends who recompile it themselves so I admit I am not suffering at the coal face on this one as some developers are.)
If Apple is getting this kind of performance out of their CPU/GPUs, especially the "Xbox One X level performance" they mentioned about their iPad Pro, curious if they'll turn Apple TV into a gaming console.
It seems like half (all) of those could be solved with a VM. On paper, the iPad has the storage (1TB!) and horsepower now. I wonder how difficult it would be to implement a hypervisor on iOS.
i also feeling something fishy here. i remember geekbench reporting different memory latencies than AIDA64 a while ago.
maybe apple took geekbench and optimized their silicon for the test load(crypto)? or maybe geekbench for arm and geekbench for x86_64 may be doing the different tasks?
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Give Xcode, and lots / most dev can switch over to programming on iPad.
We can start having / playing PUBG, C&C, Online Games with Keyboard and Mouse.
And hopefully some day they will have at least 8GB Memory on iPad Pro, or even 16G.
The one thing that worries me though is the insane amount of money required for storage. And I don't want to rely on iCloud all the time. I just wish they do Time Capsule Type Network Storage devices again.
(but TBF I only share my software with my nerd friends who recompile it themselves so I admit I am not suffering at the coal face on this one as some developers are.)
maybe apple took geekbench and optimized their silicon for the test load(crypto)? or maybe geekbench for arm and geekbench for x86_64 may be doing the different tasks?
geekbench web site have the list of benchmarks( http://support.primatelabs.com/kb/geekbench/interpreting-gee... ), but is light on testing methodology and there is no way to verify what/how benchmarks are performed.
Unrelated: Linus Torvalds trashing gb3 in mailing list, a long thread https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=136526&curpost...
Edit: added the link to gb4 benchmarks list