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A recent tidbit shared by a prominent leaker has revealed that Intel's Arrow Lake-HX might not bring significant improvements to the table. This might make OEMs turn to AMD's upcoming "Fire Range" chips, including the rumored Ryzen 9 9955HX3D for the true desktop-replacement laptops that refuse to settle for less.

Xiaomi's new Redmi Turbo 4 and its Dimensity 8400 have now made the standard trips to all the popular benchmark platforms, with the MediaTek chipset delivering CPU and GPU performance better than its current rivals' in the same segment.

Apple has long held the performance crown for mobile SoCs. However, the tech giant has recently found itself in hot water in the smartphone silicon race, thanks to the strides made by Qualcomm's Snapdragon and MediaTek's Dimensity in recent years. As suggested by a fresh leak, the story is likely to remain much the same next year as well.

AnTuTu has now released its performance charts for the month of December. Qualcomm continues to dominate, however, with devices powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite and Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 taking the #1 spot on the flagship and sub-premium lists respectively.

The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra with an overclocked Snapdragon 8 Elite has popped up on Geekbench. Even with the overclock in place, the SoC inside couldn’t surpass the 10,000 mark in multi-core.

AMD enthusiasts are well aware that Strix Halo APUs with powerful integrated graphics are poised to be unveiled next month. A recently leaked listing reveals the Time Spy performance of the Radeon 8060S iGPU, and the results appear intriguing.

The Galaxy F16 5G is now tipped to launch as one of Samsung's next late 2024/early 2025 smartphones - even if it is suspiciously similar to an existing model from the same brand on its launch. The same might be said for the M16 5G, which has just spotted on Geekbench with out-of-date software for the second time.

AMD is expected to announce its much-hyped Strix Halo high-performance mobile chips at CES 2025, which will likely be accompanied by the Krackan Point APUs as well. A recent Geekbench listing sheds light on the performance of the 8-core Ryzen AI 7 350, and the scores seem promising.

The Intel Arc B580 is scheduled to go on sale starting December 13. When the card officially lands, gamers can expect a good budget GPU with improved ray tracing performance over the Arc A770 as shown by a gaming test that has appeared on YouTube.

The Intel Arc B580 has appeared on Geekbench, resulting in a set of OpenCL and Vulkan benchmarks. The synthetic tests put the Arc B580 comfortably ahead of the Arc A580. The Battlemage GPU also appears to outperform the RX 7600 and the RX 7600 XT in both the tests.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the latest game to show that VRAM-limited GPUs are not feasible for the current and upcoming AAA titles. The case is doubly worse for 8 GB cards like the RTX 4060 and RX 7600 that fail to even register a smooth 30 FPS at 1080p.

AnTuTu has revealed its latest flagship phone chart, which lists the top 10 phones that got the highest average scores throughout November. Asus’s ROG Phone 9 Pro with Snapdragon 8 Elite topped the list, but Vivo’s X200 Pro with Dimensity 9400 put up a good fight.

TSMC is now believed to get production of its cutting-edge 2 nanometer (2nm) chipsets underway in earnest by the second half of 2025 - however, the next processor for top-end Android smartphones will not be among them. The "Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2" is backed to launch with significant performance upgrades nonetheless.

The 300 Pro is thought to debut as one of Honor's latest mid-range "Portrait Master" Android smartphones soon. Now, it has allegedly been spotted on Geekbench with a highly unusual processor - even though it apparently goes by a familiar name.

Samsung's upcoming flagship phone, the Galaxy S25+, has now made a trip over to Geekbench, showcasing its SoC, RAM, and impressive performance numbers. As previously reported, the Galaxy S25 series is slated to debut in late January.

The iQoo Neo 10 series is set to debut in China on November 29. Ahead of the launch, the company revealed how well the Pro model with Dimensity 9400 can perform in AnTuTu, and it beat the benchmark of the Snapdragon 8 Elite flagships.

The Redmi K80 series will debut on November 27, with the Redmi K80 Pro expected to be badged as the Poco F7 Ultra in the future. Said device has now been tested ahead of its launch, revealing excellent performance on both synthetic benchmarks and in real-world gaming.

DxOMark has published its iPhone 16 camera test results. With an overall score of 147, the standard Apple flagship beat the Galaxy S24 Ultra but is behind the Google Pixel 9.

The Redmi K80 series is now confirmed to launch on November 27. To build anticipation, the company has shared how well the K80 Pro can perform in AnTuTu.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite appears to be super energy efficient, as the SoC reportedly allows the OnePlus 13 and ROG Phone 9 Pro to massively outdo their predecessors in battery life. Both phones also show impressive gaming potential with the devices running Genshin Impact without any thermal throttling.

Apple's M4 Max is quite the beast of an ARM SoC. Packing up to 16 CPU cores and 40 GPU cores, the M4 Max places the MacBook Pro among the fastest notebooks on the market. According to a recently uncovered Blender benchmark, it appears the mobile SoC challenges high-end desktop GPUs as well.

The Asus ROG Phone 9 just became official as a new gaming smartphone. With the Snapdragon 8 Elite and an improved cooling setup, it has managed to beat the top-scoring RedMagic 10 Pro+ in AnTuTu.

The RedMagic 10 Pro+ is now official, but before it was officially unveiled, AnTuTu spotted the Snapdragon 8 Elite gaming phone with record-breaking score. Right after launch, it once again popped up with a chart-breaking score.

A device appearing to be the Korean model of the standard Samsung Galaxy S25 has now made a trip to Geekbench, confirming the presence of a Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy and 12 GB of RAM. Unfortunately, the device fails to impress with its performance.

The yet-unreleased Intel Core Ultra 5 225H Arrow Lake-H mobile CPU has made a pit stop at Geekbench for a set of valid single-core and multi-core benchmark results. While the results do show the 28 W Arrow Lake-H CPU beating the Meteor Lake Core Ultra 5 125H, the chip fails to outperform the Strix Point Ryzen AI 9 365.

Asus is backed to launch what might be its most powerful (and feature-rich) series of Android smartphones in the form of the ROG Phone 9 and 9 Pro. Now, a benchmarking website purports to confirm that one or both of these machines will have at least 1 industry-leading spec besides its cutting-edge Snapdragon 8 Elite silicon.

The Xiaomi 15 is touted as the iPhone 16 Pro's closest rival of the moment as it crams cutting-edge Snapdragon 8 Elite performance into a 6.36-inch display form-factor. Unfortunately, it is not yet officially available outside of China. A possible (if dubious) early sighting of a new version of the compact flagship might hint that that is about to change.

After an underwhelming Zen 5 launch where the new Ryzen 9000 CPUs failed to deliver any noteworthy gaming performance increase over Zen 4, AMD has nailed the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. According to a launch review analysis conducted by 3DCenter, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D outperforms the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in gaming by a double-digit margin.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite may be Android's headliner for the year but MediaTek's Dimensity 9400 remains a fine alternative in the premium segment. Tests show the Dimensity 9400's Immortalis-G925 displaying impressive performance and efficiency—even outclassing Apple's A18 Pro in those aspects.

The Ryzen 7 9800X3D has shown an insane 6.9 GHz clock speed in Counter-Strike 2 when overclocked using LN2 cooling. As a result, the CPU played the game at a mind-boggling >1,000 FPS while also netting a massive increase in multi-core performance.

AnTuTu has revealed the top-performing devices from October 2024, and in the Android pad category, the RedMagic Nova gaming tablet with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Leading Version has topped the list.

The Realme GT 7 Pro with Snapdragon 8 Elite is already in the hands of reviewers. While this next-gen flagship phone has what it takes to deliver big performance jumps compared to its predecessor, it overheated in early stress tests.

A new Geekbench listing making its way across the grapevine showcases a chipset said to be Google's upcoming Tensor G5 destined for the Pixel 10 series. There's a problem, though: it appears to perform even worse than the already disappointing Tensor G4.

AnTuTu has published its very first Android smartphone performance ranking after the Dimensity 9400 and Snapdragon 8 Elite became official. Among these two new flagship SoCs, the latter inside the OnePlus 13 has achieved the first spot in the list.

According to a roundup of 20 Intel Arrow Lake launch reviews, Intel's latest Core Ultra 200S chips only convince in efficiency. The Core Ultra 200S processors deliver marginal increases in application performance while taking a noticeable hit in gaming.

DxOMark's display analysis for the iPhone 16 Pro is now available, and the results leave much to be desired. Both the S24 Ultra and Pixel 9 Pro pulled ahead of the iPhone 16 Pro, and not by a small margin.

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is set to see the light of day on the 7th of November. The 120 W chip is expected to arrive with 8 Zen 5 cores and a boost clock of 5.2 GH. In a recent Blender benchmark apperance, the 9800X3D thrashes the 7800X3D will failing to keep up with Intel's Arrow Lake-S.

Compared to some of the modern gaming handhelds, the Nintendo Switch has very inferior hardware. However, the Nvidia Tegra X1 inside can offer much better performance with overclocking, and that's what Naga has proven once again.

The Ryzen 7 9800X3D has made its debut on PugetBench, specifically in the Premeire Pro and DaVinci Resolve tests. The processor appears to blow past comparable systems from Intel, with the exception of the higher-end Core Ultra 9 285K.

The freshly-launched Snapdragon 8 Elite is now Qualcomm's fastest processor for top-end mobile devices. However, there is an even faster version in the wings, one already touted as capable of rivalling the chip found in the new iPhone 16 Pro Max in a popular benchmark. It might become available in a super-sized new smartphone in 2025.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite is set to power the next-generation of Android flagships, along with the Dimensity 9400. While Apple's A18 Pro maintains its lead in single-core performance and CPU efficiency, the Snapdragon 8 Elite scores a decisive victory in multi-core and GPU performance.

The OnePlus 13 will not be official until the end of the month; nevertheless, its gaming prowess has allegedly been tested already. A famous leaker now touts the upcoming Android flagship as a significant breakthrough in terms of both performance and efficiency. The leak also contains some potential reassurance concerning the device's thermal management.

Apple's A18 Pro lags behind the Snapdragon 8 Elite in multi-core CPU performance. However, it does manage to to reign supreme in single-core performance, while also being notably more efficient than both the Snapdragon 8 Elite and the Dimensity 9400 in CPU tests.

Qualcomm's just-released Snapdragon 8 Elite is labeled as delivering the world's fastest mobile CPU yet. Early benchmark results for the chipset are in, providing an impressive image of how it compares to the Dimensity 9400 and Apple A18 Pro.

A recent Geekbench 6 listing reveals that the upcoming Intel Core Ultra 9 285 non-K CPU with a TDP of just 65 watts narrowly defeats the outgoing 125 W Core i9-14900K in both single-core and multi-core scores despite featuring fewer threads owing to the lack of hyper-threading support.

The Oppo Find X8 series is set to be unveiled on October 24, and according to internal data shared by the company, the Pro variant outperforms the iPhone 16 Pro Max in extreme battery tests.

The Xiaomi 15 is said to launch (very shortly) as a compact flagship - however, it is not to be judged on its size, according to its latest leak. Its full-sized Snapdragon 8 Elite power joins other specs to match rumored rivals from OnePlus and iQOO. The 15 is also now slated to run the latest version of HyperOS out of the box.

Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K was found flexing its muscles in CPU-Z as well as Blender. In both the benchmarks, the Arrow Lake-S CPU outperformed its predecessor, but failed to outclass AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X in the latter test.

The Nova 13 Pro is set to become Huawei's latest premium mid-range smartphone in a matter of days from today (October 19, 2024). It has allegedly sneaked onto Geekbench ahead of this event, thereby possibly confirming that it has the same SoC as its new foldable sibling in advance. The 13 Pro is also now tipped to debut with camera, connectivity and wired charging specs to match some upcoming Android flagships.

Apple quietly launched the new iPad Mini 7, which brings some notable hardware upgrades compared to its predecessor. The A17 Pro is one of the main highlights, but it scores slightly lower than the iPhone 15 Pro Max in early Geekbench runs.