




Characterizing GPU Behavior





Running Epic Citadel - 480 MHz


Running AnTuTu – 532 MHz SGX Clock


GT-I9500 Triangle Throughput Performance
% Increase 10.8%           13.9%


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  • darwinosx - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - link

    Samsung is a scumbag company that is investigated for illegal behavior even in South Korea where they have a lot of power. Nothing they do should surprise anyone. Reply
  • Lonyo - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - link

    Apple is a scumbag company that is investigated for illegal behaviour even in the USA where they have a lot of influence/mindshare. Nothing they do should surprise anyone.

    See how easy it is?
  • eallan - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - link

    Point me to a story where apply pays reviewers or does this. Reply
  • RichDavis - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - link

    Like what? The ebook issue? That was decided by one person. Personally, I've read through the same thing they were and I wouldn't think that Apple was doing anything illegal. All Jobs was doing was to make it a fair market. What companies TYPICALLY do is set a retail price, set a wholesale price to resellers and let the resellers sell it for whatever they want. This is just trying to create a equal playing field. That's all Jobs was suggesting. he wasn't doing anything more than that, and since Jobs wasn't there to defend his statements, a judge is just trying to squeeze money out of Apple because Apple has lots of money. Now, in terms of routing profits from doing business in other countries into Ireland. Other companies such as Microsoft, Google and others do the same thing. There is NOTHING wrong about it. The reason why they do it is because the profits they made in other countries have already been taxed by the various countries they did business in. To constantly bring money back and forth between other countries and the US, they have to pay taxes on it and it's very difficult to manage their finances. BUT, Apple does invest the profits they make in other countries and that is brought into the US and it is taxed. Apple pays a VERY reasonable percentage in taxes. If you look at Apple's income statements, they pay a decent percentage of their gross profits in taxes. Last year they paid out about $14 BILLION in taxes. That's more than Google made in Net Profits for the year.

    Apple have never been sued for Monopolistic business practices like MIcrosoft got continually nailed for. Nor did Apple get nailed for price fixing, which Samsung has been convicted of TWICE, once for memory price fixing and another time for monitors. They should get nailed again for raising prices to Apple on the processors they mfg because Apple went to other suppliers for other components. samsung also should be nailed for conflict of interest and unfair business practices since they sell components to various other companies and then they turn around and compete with similar products. That's COMPLETELY wrong. Nothing right about doing that. That's like Intel going around selling Intel computers competing against their own customers.
  • DigitalFreak - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - link

    Oh do shut up, you twat. Reply
  • PeteH - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - link

    What a compelling argument. The wisdom of your words has undoubtedly opened many eyes to the rightness of your position. Bravo to you sir, bravo! Reply
  • TedKord - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - link

    The ebook situation WAS price-fixing, and they did get nailed for it. Reply
  • psuedonymous - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - link

    Actually, the opposite is the case. Amazon were previously using that model for ebook sales, but Apple colluded with publishers to move to a different model, where the publisher sets the final sale rice, and gives the reseller a fixed cut of that final price. This, combined with agreements requiring Apple always have the lowest (or equal to lowest) sale price meant that Amazon was prevented from selling ebooks from those publishers for less than Apple was, and publishers got to see prices higher than Amazon's previously established baseline.

    THAT was why Apple was slapped down in every court that has seen the case (US and EU), and why all the publishers involved settled to avoid more costly losses.
  • RichDavis - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - link

    Samsung pays much more in lobbying money in the US than Apple does. In fact, Apple spends the least for most of these large computer/software companies. Microsoft spends more in lobbying, so do other high tech companies, but generally Apple doesn't like greasing the palms of politicians by contributing to political campaigns. Reply
  • BC2009 - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - link

    Seeing the replies to your comment, it apparently wasn't as "easy" as you say. You've been pretty much shut down. Reply

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