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AnandTech Finds iPhone 11 Pro Has 50-60% Higher Sustained Graphics Performance Than iPhone XS
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Effectively, this article is about what Apple accomplishes when it produces its own silicon. What you're asking for is totally unrelated - which third-party silicon is selected for which model.
You want more beef in the base-model Mac (and onward up the line)? Look to the price to be paid for that beef. Yeah, everyone wants Apple to spend more on their favorite feature without jacking up the consumer price... Apple's rich, yada yada. Why should anyone expect that to happen?
Better GPU = higher unit price or reducing the cost/capability of some other aspect of the system. What percentage of the market cares enough about improved GPU to want to pay it?
Overall, I think Apple has more success selling higher-priced displays - the GPUs necessary to drive those displays simply come along for the ride. To expect 100% of Mac buyers to pay for GPUs that maybe 20% of buyers would prefer to have... totally unrealistic.
And better cooling? Spoken only as someone who wants to drive their CPU/GPU at 100% for hours at a time can. Edge-case utilization.
lets see, the A12 is faster than the best Qualcomm, and that is last year's phone Soc. So now they have a 2 year advantage, used to be 1. did I miss something?
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Apple doesn't innovate anymore. ummmmm
AnandTech today published its in-depth review of the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, including a detailed overview of the processor and graphics performance gains of Apple's latest A13 Bionic chip.
Starting with CPU performance, AnandTech found the A13 chip is around 20 percent faster than the A12 chip in last year's iPhone models, consistent with Apple's advertised claims. However, to fully achieve that improvement, the site claims Apple had to increase the peak power consumption of the CPU cores:In terms of efficiency at the A13 chip's peak performance state, AnandTech believes the higher power draw will likely result in both the chip and the iPhone being more sensitive to temperatures and prone to throttling.
Apple says the A13 chip is up to 30 percent more power efficient than the A12 chip overall, encompassing all levels of performance.
In terms of overall performance, AnandTech emphasized Apple's lead in the mobile chip space, noting that the A13 posts almost double the performance of the next best non-Apple chip. The site also found the A13 "essentially matched" the "best that AMD and Intel have to offer" for desktop CPUs, at least based on SPECint2006, a suite of CPU-intensive cross-platform integer benchmarks.
AnandTech was even more impressed with GPU performance, noting that while peak performance has improved by roughly 20 percent as advertised, the iPhone 11 Pro had 50 to 60 percent higher sustained performance scores than the iPhone XS based on the high-end GFXBench graphics benchmark:AnandTech is widely known for its coverage of components like CPUs and GPUs, so its iPhone reviews are highly regarded. AnandTech founder Anand Shimpi joined Apple's chipmaking team in 2014 and recently spoke about the A13 chip in an interview alongside Apple's marketing chief Phil Schiller.
Full Review: The Apple iPhone 11, 11 Pro & 11 Pro Max Review: Performance, Battery, & Camera Elevated by Andrei Frumusanu
Article Link: AnandTech Finds iPhone 11 Pro Has 50-60% Higher Sustained Graphics Performance Than iPhone XS
Not really - when Apple went from Power PC to Intel, they were able to run existing Power PC applications with the Rosetta binary translator - because the Intel chips, at that time, were far faster than Power PC. They wouldn't be able to do it this time. They A13 may be "desktop class", but it's not faster than a 4- or 6-core Intel CPU. People won't buy a machine that runs their software slower than what they already have. The only way Apple could bring out an Ax based laptop is if they managed to get major 3rd-party developers onboard before the release (e.g. Microsoft, Google, etc.) and provide an easy way for the open source industry to build for the new architecture (Apache, Java, etc.)
Too bad that Apple hasn't already put a chip similar to this in a thin and light macOS MacBook. The result would likely be faster for most Apple and Linux or Open Source applications that I use, plus have better battery life than my current MacBook Air. Possibly weigh even less as well.
A lot of that old software was purchased years ago. Any new chip will run it tons faster than a P5.
Microsoft, Google, and most Open Source providers already provide ARM builds for Surface, Chromebooks, and Raspberry Pi's. These would be either a trivial port, or run well under an ARM native VirtualBox VM.
Every business worth their salt has a vested interest in their particular red part. I’d love to see the pie chart for Ford and whether the F-150 and Super Duty series show up if they are grouped together. Where does Ford’s innovation go? Trucks and SUVs as those are what sells while cars are gone, outside of the Mustang. Pretty sure there are a few sedan people out there who are upset, but them’s the breaks.
Not being snarky either, but who in their right mind can make a reasoned business case that Apple should plow more resources into the Mac at 9% of revenue than the iPhone?
The “Hold my beer crowd should be here in 3, 2, 1...
They made the switch to Intel due to a higher power per watt. They are there now with the A13, but obviously they wouldn't just slap an existing A series chip in a laptop and call it a day, this would be developed specifically for the product application. Obviously there would be a transition plan from a software perspective as well. Another forum member mentioned something that may be true also - could be an entirely different type of device than we are used to. Either way, they have a big advantage and you can clearly see the writing on the wall.
Less RAM is needed because the competition is using Java which needs GC (Garbage Collection) a rule of thumb is that you almost need twice the memory.
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His AirPods should work. He just needs to set them up like other bluetooth devices, by pressing the button on the iPod box until it goes into pairing mode and then go to his bluetooth settings and pair.
The Android Java code is now compiled ahead of time (AOT), when installed as Dalvik has been deprecated. But the garbage collection (GC) is still there requiring much more RAM.
You didn't. It was a strawman that got burned by multiple posters. That zealous pyre does not change the sad state of Mac graphics but maybe it makes the posters feel better about it.
If heat is a problem then you have a "bad" app. Check power usage in settings and stop this app from tracking you in the background (or simply just delete Facebook and Spotify
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They are building for the future too. Not everything is about today. You have to take the steps to get to the goal and this is one of many.
This also makes iPhones usable for long periods of time, hence how well they hold their value.
Technically the Red portion should be larger, not sure why iOS is not represented in Red that use Ax chips. With iPhone, iPad, AW, AP/Beats and the hybrid Mac with T2 the Red investment is larger than what is being reported.
I suspect it to be close to 80%
I suspect the transition to a complete ARM Mac is underway it started with the Tx chip and iOS apps being able to run natively on macOS. Next an Ax chip will run only the iOS based apps while the x64 chip will run other apps. There will be three modes that dynamically switch without user intervention. ARM mode to in iOS apps, basic macOS functions, x64 mode to run non-optimized apps and finally hybrid mode that places more responsibility on the power efficient ARM.
Apple has experience with this transition multiple times in the last not only with the PPC to intel switch but also with Classic, Carbon and Cocoa In macOS. Then the switch on ARM from 32 to 64 bit.
I would expect the next MacBook or the one after to be a hybrid x64/ARM based. Apple is not foolish to jump on ARM for macOS hardware with both feet, that is just crazy talk.
Ax chips have never been the limiting factor with iOS, it is amazing What the silicone team at Apple has been able to deliver with the Ax chips.
RAM has been the telltale sign for iOS, considering that iPhone X,XR, Mini 5,iPad Air etc has 3GB RAM across the consumer device range indicates iOS will be supported for that amount for a long time. Considering how far iOS has been developed with 2GB in-mind those with 4GB iOS devices can take it easy. The likely scenario is the battery will probably not hold a decent charge before that iOS device needs to be replaced.
I believe you maybe on to something, the Pro models require the extra boost in processing power due to the high-resolution displays while the 11 does not. Hence the battery needed a bump in capacity as well compared to the 11.
It seems the 11 is still the better when all is compared minus telephoto. The display resolution really is not a big issue for most.
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I concur it will be needed for AR/VR RT local processing.
Maybe a dedicated graphics co-processor then integrate it similar to the Mx co-processor route. Interesting to see the future implementation by Apple.