Xiaomi Mi3 (Snapdragon 800-Based) Emerges in AnTuTu

Xiaomi’s Mi3 was already known to be a great device, and the latest benchmarking results for it appear to have confirmed that recently.

The smartphone was spotted in AnTuTu with a 2.3GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 MSM8974AB processor inside, where it managed to top 37,273 points, as GSMInsider reports. At the same time, the CDMA version of the smartphone emerged there with a score of 36,350 points, which further confirms that the phone can deliver high performance levels.

However, given that these results are not official, we should take them with a grain of salt, as PhoneArena notes. The XiaoMi Mi3 was launched with a 5-inch full HD screen, 2GB of RAM inside, a 13-megapixel rear camera, and a 3050mAh battery. The handset is running under the MIUI V5 software, which is based on Android.

Snapdragon 800-based Xiaomi Mi3 in AnTuTu
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Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 Ti WindForce GHz Edition Can Reach 1085 MHz

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti GHz edition is already a superpowered beast, but that isn't stopping OEMs from pushing it even higher than usual. Gigabyte just proved that, again.

The company has created the (still un-priced) GTX 780 Ti GHz Edition, bearing the part number of GV-N78TGHZ-3GD. It's actually strange that it's called “GHz Edition” when it does not, in fact, run at 1 GHz. Instead, its base clock is of 1085 MHz, while the GPU Boost maximum is of 1150 MHz. That's a full 222 MHz above and beyond the standard clocks, which were already enough to beat GTX Titan and AMD Radeon R9 290X.

The card has to get an 8+2+2 phase VRM and the WindForce 450W 3X cooler, but no one's complaining. Not when it's still a dual-slot card, and not when all other NVIDIA partners are customizing the living lights out of this flagship adapter. It's almost a shame that the 3 GB of GDDR5 VRAM are left at 7 GHz frequency.

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 Ti
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