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Nvidia RTX 5000 – release date, price, specs, and benchmark rumours
The Nvidia RTX 5000 series likely won’t show its face for a few years, but details, speculation, and rumours surrounding the next GeForce GPUs are already doing the rounds. To help navigate these murky waters, here’s everything we know so far about team green’s ‘Blackwell’ graphics cards.
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Apple, Google, and Mozilla collaborate on Speedometer 3 browser benchmark
Google, Apple and Mozilla team up to build a better browser benchmark
Google, Apple and Mozilla are collaborating on a better web browser benchmark. Speedometer 3 will be a “cross-industry collaborative effort” from the Chrome, Safari and Firefox makers to create a new model that balances the companies’ visions for measuring responsiveness.
Three companies making a tool that will rate the effectiveness of their competing products sounds like a recipe for disaster. However, Speedometer’s governance policy includes a consent system that differs based on potential ramifications. For example, significant changes will require approval from the other two companies, while “non-trivial changes” will need consent from one of the other two parties. Meanwhile, “trivial changes” can be green-lit by a reviewer from any of the three browser makers. The policy’s aim is that “the working team should be able to move quickly for most changes, with a higher level of process and consensus expected based on the impact of the change.”
Unlike some past benchmarks, Speedometer 3 is being started as a cross-industry collaborative effort.
Building this will be hard work, and working together gives us a chance to build the best version to help make the Web faster for years to come. https://t.co/lZyegpIAeW— Mozilla Developer 👩🏾💻 (@mozhacks) December 15, 2022
The project will follow Speedometer 2, the current de facto benchmark developed by Apple’s WebKit team. Chrome, Safari and Firefox are three of the four most-used browsers today. That fourth browser, Microsoft Edge, doesn’t run its own engine, instead relying on Google’s open-sourced Chromium with Blink and V8 engines.
The Speedometer 3 project is still in its infancy, and its GitHub page warns that it is “in active development and is unstable.” The groups recommend using Speedometer 2.1 until development is further along, though we don’t yet know when Speedometer 3 will be ready.
Top Stories: M2 Max Benchmark Leak, iPhone 15 Camera Rumor, and More
This week saw an alleged benchmark leak for an “M2 Max” chip expected to make an appearance in upcoming Macs like the MacBook Pro early next year, as well as fresh rumors about the iPhone 15 coming later in the year.
Other news included Apple’s annual App Store Awards, the high-profile launch of the Oceanic+ diving app for Apple Watch Ultra, and our look at some of the other things in Apple’s pipeline that we’re hoping to see in the fairly near future, so read on for all of the details on these stories and more!
‘M2 Max’ Performance Revealed in Leaked Benchmark
Alleged benchmark results for Apple’s as-yet-unannounced M2 Max chip surfaced on Geekbench this week, offering a first look at the chip’s potential performance gains and specs.
The benchmark is likely for a future MacBook Pro. If accurate, the listing indicates the M2 Max chip will have a 12-core CPU option and can be configured with 96GB of RAM, whereas the M1 Max chip has a 10-core CPU and is available with up to 64GB RAM.
Given that Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company’s product lineup is “set” for this holiday season, the first Macs with M2 Pro and M2 Max chips are expected to be announced in 2023.
iPhone 15 Said to Feature ‘State-of-the-Art’ Camera Sensor
Apple’s next-generation iPhone 15 models will be equipped with Sony’s newest “state-of-the-art” image sensor, according to a report this week from Japanese publication Nikkei Asia.
The report said the sensor can “capture more light and reduce overexposure or underexposure in certain settings,” which should result in improved Night mode photos and other benefits for iPhone 15 cameras.
Man Robbed After Buying 300 iPhones at Apple Fifth Avenue
An unnamed 27-year-old man who purchased 300 iPhones from Apple Fifth Avenue this week was robbed shortly after leaving the store, according to New York radio station 1010 WINS.
The man was reportedly carrying 300 iPhone 13 devices in three bags and walking to his car at 1:45 a.m. when another car pulled up next to him and demanded that he hand over the iPhones, leading to a fight in which one of the bags containing 125 iPhones worth $95,000 was taken.
Apple Announces 2022 App Store Award Winners
Apple this week announced its 2022 App Store Award winners, highlighting the 16 best apps and games selected by Apple’s editorial team. Each winner will receive a physical App Store award that is modeled after the design of the App Store logo.
Apple also announced the winner of its first-ever Apple Podcasts Award and introduced a new highlight reel feature for the 2022 edition of Apple Music Replay.
Apple Announces Oceanic+ App Now Available for Apple Watch Ultra
Apple this week announced that the Oceanic+ app is now available for the Apple Watch Ultra. Designed by Huish Outdoors in collaboration with Apple, the app serves as a dive computer for recreational scuba diving at depths of up to 40 meters/130 feet.
Apple already offers a basic Depth app on the Apple Watch Ultra. For experienced scuba divers looking for more advanced data, the Oceanic+ app is a useful tool.
Apple Still Has These 5 Things to Release Heading Into 2023
The calendar has turned to December and that means Apple has only one month left to fulfill its promises of releasing an Apple Music Classical app and expanding its self-service repair program to Europe before the end of 2022. Delays are always possible, of course, so the plans could be pushed back to 2023.
In any case, we have put together a list of five things that Apple still has to release over the next several months.
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Modern Warfare 2 has a surprisingly good benchmark on PC
If you’ve been playing PC games for long enough, you’ll no doubt be familiar with how rare it is to see a half-decent benchmark test in a PC game. Often times, people come up with their own stress runs and report everything manually.
Plenty of PC games do include benchmarks, though seemingly just to check a box and get it out of the way – but not Modern Warfare 2.
Modern Warfare 2’s servers are now online everywhere, including on PC, and one of the few surprises PC players saw (other than the lack of a cross-play toggle) was a benchmark.
For one, it’s surprising because Infinity Ward did not communicate its existence ahead of launch, but also because Call of Duty is one of the better-optimised PC games these days, and its popularity means there’s plenty of tests out there for different system configurations.
The benchmark can be found in the Multiplayer row, which is a bit of an unusual placement for it. Scroll past all the other tiles and you’ll find it at the end of the row.
Once launched, the benchmark will run for a little over a minute, playing different effects-heavy scenarios. As it’s running, you’ll be able to track average FPS, CPU render time, as well as GPU render time and temperature.
All of that is fairly standard, but the results screen is where things get interesting.
As you can see, not only do you get a tally of the average framerate, it’s broken down by 1% and 5% lows. The summary dives even deeper, recapping all three results again while showing GPU and CPU framerate separately.
This is a fantastic way to see which of the two components is affecting your framerate the most. In my case, the game is GPU-bound, meaning I would need to upgrade my GPU to reach higher framerates.
Playing on lower resolutions will change that dynamic, and get you into CPU-bounded situations more often.
The right-side panel displays a few other useful bits of information about your system, including RAM and VRAM usage, as well as the actual render resolution for your chosen upscaling method.
Though it’s not as exhaustive as, say, the Gears 5 benchmark, it’s still pretty useful. Give it a try and share your results.
If Modern Warfare 2 is running well for you, it’s probably best to learn the fastest way to rank up and level up weapons.