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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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Poor Samsung ? How so ? .. How is iOS taking advantage of this super-speedy chip.. or even the A10/A10x ? Do explain..
If opening apps/games faster is your priority, then you got me!
They might as well kill the Mac in favour of the iPad at that point.
People who use x86 based machines generally do so because they need software that won't run on arm.
Are you serious? It's a tiny pocket device with no fans. It'll never catch up with a laptop, let alone a desktop computer. It may feel as fluid, but it doesn't mean it's as fast. It has much fewer pixels to drive to begin with. My iMac drives 14.6 million pixels, a phone is usually 1080 at best.
If I can run Netscape browser and message people on ICQ and play music on Winamp all on my phone then its a hit!
#Nothing wrong with the 90s
I remember being so pissed that I couldn't play mp3 without the sound breaking up on my 486 DX2/50
I did have an MPEG 1 decoder card though so could play VideoCD and FMV beautifully. Still got a bunch of discs lying around
Apple's acquisition of PA Semi was probably one of its greatest strategic decisions in the past decade.
I say this every year. If it was so powerful, it would already be in their MacBooks and a iPhone would be able to dock and run Mac OS but it can't. If it's this powerful in iOS it should translate on how powerful it would be on Windows 10, iOS, or even Android but it doesn't.
Who cares about numbers when it's not showing real world conveniences? Hey, I just opened my app a millisecond faster than you.....no one cares if it just works.
iPads have powerful processors too (although weaker which is ashame for a PC replacement) but can't gain something simple as mouse support and they can't run Mac OS at all yet they are PC replacements. Maybe they should have gave their iPhone X users a fingerprint scanner instead of overpowering their processors which has no use to their customers.
Apple never took advantage of the A9 by all accounts so it's just a publicity stunt if you think about it.
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It really does seem an inevitability at this point. Apple clearly know how to make it excellent CPU's now.
Yeah. If you're going to run iOS on it. Wouldn't be a MacBook though then really.
iOS is a subset of MacOS. They're not that far apart. Take the A11 chip, triple the amount of cores, up the speed significantly, and add in another GPU and you easily could have desktop class performance*. You have much more cooling to deal with and more power, so it's not a stretch. And while I am not a coder, I imagine that many apps could be ported from Intel to A11 with a click of a button in xcode.
They're not there yet, but could be with a desktop version of this chip. A11x? A11xx? 12 or 24 (6/6 - 12/12) cores + 12 GPU cores running at 3GHz with active cooling? Why not?
* Desktop as in Core i7/9
They're not there yet, but could be with a desktop version of this chip. A11x? A11xx? 12 or 24 (6/6 - 12/12) cores + 12 GPU cores running at 3GHz with active cooling? Why not?
* Desktop as in Core i7/9
Right... Because Aunt Betty use it to to make a photo book. I did drawing with Crayon when I was a kid - does not mean they actually art supplies.
You know a platform is nonsense when you partner with one of the largest corporate tech service provider (IBM) and 4 years later it still a joke. If IBM can't sell you as a productivity tool - call it a day.
Yeah... Lets retool MacOS back to RISC - circa 1999.
That's amazing. And that's with a 2 watt power budget of a phone cpu.
If they actually gave it a 25 watt power budget for a laptop or a 150 watt power budget for a desktop, it would destroy anything by any other manufacturer.
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geek bench is actually based on real world applications, like gzip and tools. It's a valid comparison for "how much work can this CPU do".
If they actually gave it a 25 watt power budget for a laptop or a 150 watt power budget for a desktop, it would destroy anything by any other manufacturer.
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geek bench is actually based on real world applications, like gzip and tools. It's a valid comparison for "how much work can this CPU do".
because names from 12-year olds are absurd for chips but obviously perfect for an OS?
I bet it will have the A12 Chip!Start the iPhone 9 rumours already!
No I was just being pedantic. Couldn't care less what its called really. I'm loving this thread tbh..