ARM & Apple Silicon

7+ hour, 23+ min ago   (1634+ words) Updated September 2026: This guide compares Apple’s current Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro against the Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra. I’ve tested the M6 Mac mini and M5 Max Mac Studio side by side using the same real creative projects, gaming settings…...

19+ hour, 26+ min ago   (342+ words) For engineers curious about the mechanics, loading a quantized model through Apple’s MLX Swift framework, the same tooling PrismML used for its iPhone 17 Pro Max measurement, generally follows a pattern like the simplified example below. This is illustrative of the…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1050+ words) Apple’s next wave of desktop silicon just got its first independent scoreboard. Geekbench 7 listings reviewed by MacRumors show the M5 Ultra chip posting a Metal graphics score of 366,744, a 59% jump over the M3 Ultra’s average result of 230,420. The M6 chip, Apple’s mainstream successor…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (693+ words) Two different M5 Ultra samples and two different M3 Ultra baselines produce two slightly different percentage gains (59% and roughly 41%), which is normal for crowd-submitted benchmark databases where sample size and system configuration vary. Both point to a real, large jump rather than…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1733+ words) This guide covers the best ARM Linux distros you can install right now, what each one is genuinely good at, and where each one falls short. We’ll also cover what ARM actually is, why people are choosing it, the real…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (325+ words) A preliminary Geekbench 7 listing puts Apple’s A20 Pro ahead of top desktop CPUs in single-core testing, but the result still needs retail-device verification. The reported A20 Pro Geekbench 7 scores are 4,006 in single-core and 11,460 in multi-core. The comparable A19 Pro figures in the same…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (550+ words) The table above deliberately avoids assigning exact point values to the desktop chips or to M5 Max, because the fact sheet behind this story does not include specific verified scores for those parts, only that A20 Pro’s Geekbench 7 result reportedly exceeds them....

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (277+ words) FUJITSU-MONAKA is Fujitsu’s next-generation server CPU, a 144-core Armv9-based chip built on a 2nm compute die stacked with 5nm cache dies, announced September 14, 2026, and designed and manufactured in Japan for AI inference workloads. Fujitsu says global sales of the standalone FUJITSU-MONAKA CPU…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (330+ words) Early iPhone 18 Pro benchmarks suggest Apple’s A20 Pro is up to 28% faster than the A19 Pro, with a near-5GHz clock speed and a major GPU jump. Apple’s A20 Pro is showing up in early Geekbench results with up to 28% faster CPU performance than…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (348+ words) The table below lines up the confirmed specification changes between the A19 Pro and the A20 Pro, based on Apple’s announcement and reporting from Notebookcheck, Wccftech, and Tom’s Hardware. The A20 Pro is Apple’s new system-on-chip powering the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro…...