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AniMill said:

I know many people rely upon the power of the iPhone 14 Pro for great cinematography and photography, and perhaps some power-hungry games. But personally I rarely touch the power of my iPhone 13 mini - and it’s quite powerful. I’m happy that Apple keeps pushing the envelope because they feel the competitive push from Samsung and others, but benchmarking for our phones is purely for ARMchair Quarterbacks.

The thing is, powerful today is just adequacy tomorrow. You may not need all that power today, but it could and in Apple's devices brings longevity to the usefulness and life span of the device - iPhone 8 is six years old and is still supported.

Of course Samsung's scores are going to suffer - they haven't had time to rewrite their "benchmark" detecting code yet to account for these new tests.

cpsro said:

(1) Geekbench has seemingly wiped version 5 results from its website, just weeks (not months) into releasing version 6. I don't recall this happening so quickly to version 4 results when version 5 was released.
(2) I'm not a fan of having a single number include machine learning. ML has nothing to do with my real-time use of a device. I think that performance measure should be reported separately. Sure you can dig into the individual benchmarks that comprise GB6 (and earlier), but everyone center's their focus on the top-level figure.

1. Yeah, because morons kept trying compare them.

2. They're not talking about teaching ML models, they're talking about referencing ML models, which is done all the time on modern devices, it is a real world use.

Rogue01 said:

This goes back to when teens would watch scrambled Cinemax or HBO late at night hoping to catch a glimpse of a boob!  Parents should be parents and monitor their children's activities, rather than Apple playing police man or second parent.  Like what Oldenboom said.  In some countries, nudity is way more normal than in the US, and we weren't born dressed.  Of course child porn, extortion, and bullying is horrible, but it seems Apple wants to block everything that they deem inappropriate.  What if it is an image of famous artwork that contains nudity?  Apple will block it claiming it might be unsafe to view, when it is a piece of art.

This a feature that parents can turn on in iMessages if they feel the need to. This is not Apple imposing their morals on you.

This is about a child having an unsupervised conversation with someone in iMessage on their iPad or iPhone who is sending them nude photos. Chances are those aren't photos of art. While you may not care that predator is grooming your child, most parents would have a problem with it.

Wait! So a laptop with 24 cores capable of running at up to 5.6GHz is more powerful than a laptop with 12 cores running at 3.7GHz?

That's just crazy!

What a stupid waste of time. Yes, I get that it is a somewhat fair comparison in so much that these are two laptops being compared, but it gets a little ridiculous when on one those laptops is more like a portable desktop that all but requires it to be plugged in. This would be like Apple cramming an M2 Ultra into a MacBook.

Haven't we covered the fact that the race Apple is in, isn't about performance, but efficiency. And in that regard they are still way ahead of Intel. This laptop and that i9, while better than last generation, are not and could never be considered efficient by any meaning of the word.

By the way, the Blender CPU scores are not that impressive for a CPU with those specs. This article is all about the Intel i9, yet posting scores of Nvidia GPUs? And running a test that highly benefits from hardware accelerated ray tracing.