Re:2014 MacBook Air: Performance benchmarks
by Tuna-Fish on Saturday May 03, 2014 @08:16AM
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> Is the generation of the processor always the dominant factor nowadays?
No.
> Is there a convenient way to estimate performance without poring over benchmarks?
Unless you are willing to quite a lot of time learning, not really. And unless you've been willing to do that, you haven't been able to conveniently estimate performance for about 14 years now.
> What are people's favourite sites for finding out about these things?
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/ is pretty good, as they standardize all results into a convenient database with easy head-to-head comparisons.
PassMark: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/
Is the generation of the processor always the dominant factor nowadays? Is there a convenient way to estimate performance without poring over benchmarks? What are people's favourite sites for finding out about these things?