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A11 Bionic Chip in iPhone 8 and iPhone X on Par With 13-Inch MacBook Pro, Outperforms iPad Pro
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If it's so great, have it run full OS X when it's connected to an external display.
I'd been using an iPhone for nearly a year as my main computer. :/
I grabbed an iPad Pro 9.7" about four months ago and that made viewing content easier.
Finally got a 13" MacBook 2017 and EVERYTHING IS Sso much easier.
I can't help feel a bit miffed and jealous looking at these benchmarks. There are definitely times when switching programs on the MacBook where I see a little animation glitching. Tho for most taskes it's plenty fast.
Its bound to happen, it's starting to become a no brainer. Especially since windows 10 can run on ARM hardware, technically windows dual boot could be supported. I bet Apple is working with Microsoft to deliver a Arm based Mac compatible with bootcamp.
Apple could design incredibly thin and yet fast laptops with their Arm chips.
Apple could design incredibly thin and yet fast laptops with their Arm chips.
How much RAM? Would be a shame to have such horsepower hamstrung by lack of RAM.
And to almost every day normal user, most of my family and friends have iPhones, nobody cares about the RAM, cores, benchmarks, etc. as long as the iPhone runs smooth.
Exactly, I don't see the point in comparing them.
Finally. It is about time the A chips caught up. You'd think with all that R&D money this would have happened 5 years ago. But no, everything this company and Tim Cook does is drawn out like filling a swimming pool with water from a garden hose
You'd think by now it would match Intel i7. Especially for a thousand dollars for a freaking damn phone
Okay. Done ranting - for now. Time for me to go enjoy some avocado toast and lament my student loan situation
You'd think by now it would match Intel i7. Especially for a thousand dollars for a freaking damn phone
Okay. Done ranting - for now. Time for me to go enjoy some avocado toast and lament my student loan situation
And yet those "competitors" can't even beat the A10 Fusion. Or even A9 in real world performance. Looks like Apple's only real competitor is Apple itself.
I think the only thing this means is that Apple computers are in a really sad state. The iPhone X probably smokes a 486 PC from the 90s too. That does not make it a great comparison.
There's something very wrong with those benchmark figures. They are definately not comparable across ARM and x64. If they are, they are so limited and singlestreamed that it says nothing at all about the processors real capabilities when running average code on a single core.
There is no way in h*** it comes anywhere near the intel skylake 3.5Ghz in singlecore performance. These numbers suggest it's only about 10% slower in single core performance - completely unrealistic!
There is no way in h*** it comes anywhere near the intel skylake 3.5Ghz in singlecore performance. These numbers suggest it's only about 10% slower in single core performance - completely unrealistic!
Um, you're acting as if Apple is purposely holding back chip speeds. That's actually Intel. Both Qualcomm and Apple are pushing these as fast as they can but things hold them back...like manufacturing processes etc. Other technologies need to advance along with it.
Wrong, the architecture is built for the future. Evaluating the potentials only based on the present is pathetic.
Well it depends on how the benchmark is designed. If they use the same tests on both I don't see why it's useless. People compare performance across architecture all the time. Nothing new, and yes these benchmarks are meaningful.
People doesn't seem to understand that these scores are completely meaningless when it's across OS and architecture.
Just because it's faster in geekbench, doesn't mean the CPU is actually faster than a MacBook Pro.
The general processing and instruction set that it supported is far from what we have in Macbook, and nowhere near it.
It runs fine in a mobile device, but when it scale up to do general tasking, it's gonna stall and runs like crap.
There are many reasons why Microsoft essentially abandon the Windows RT for ARM chipset.
These news site needs to stop posting **** like this and compare across completely different thing. It's misleading.
Just because it's faster in geekbench, doesn't mean the CPU is actually faster than a MacBook Pro.
The general processing and instruction set that it supported is far from what we have in Macbook, and nowhere near it.
It runs fine in a mobile device, but when it scale up to do general tasking, it's gonna stall and runs like crap.
There are many reasons why Microsoft essentially abandon the Windows RT for ARM chipset.
These news site needs to stop posting **** like this and compare across completely different thing. It's misleading.
It better be since it cost almost as much as a freaking MBP!
There are a lot of things about Android I like, how it can be customized and grouped notifications (come on ios you had it and took it away!?!) but pure performance ios is a beast especially in longevity. I mean my iphone 5s is definitely on the slow side but pretty much on par with the performance of my Nexus 6p but it's at least 2 years older? I think. Brain not working at its finest at the moment. But ya I could surely struggle through another year with it but would like something a little snappier and with a usable battery life.
IOS and Mac OS are probably similar and probably share many libraries, they both are built on the drawin kernel. Have you seen the huge 8MB of L2 cache on the iPad's a10x ? Apple is not joking around.
Actually I would have to disagree here. The iPad Pro with iOS 11 has actually made it a fairly decent productivity machine. As they continue to add features to the core Apps --- it will be a workhorse.
Fact is the Design and architecture of Apple's chips are very impressive especially considering how they leverage power efficiency though close development of the software.
Soon enough this chip could power MacOS and iOS and support all the functionality different user communities will need.
MS are developing an emulator layer to run full x86 Windows 10 on ARM chips; out soon.
Let's not pretend it'll be anywhere near native performance though, you're 100% correct.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....s-full-windows-10-with-photoshop-on-arm-chips