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Anandtech should publish disclaimer of their preliminary test!
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the offscreen 1080p test will show the 6 plus as having ~5-10% more performance since the A8 is clocked higher, but onscreen tests will show a different story given the resolution difference
i would lean towards this, more pixels with same chip = lower performance
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It's not clocked higher, geekbench 3 shows 1.39 Ghz for both (at least on my phones).
I would imagine the 6 plus has better thermal headroom, perhaps its better at maintaining that performance (ipad mini retina and the iphone 5S have the same clockspeed, but the ipad mini retina edges it in performance)
I trust Anand. Besides, the results he showed make perfect sense, of course more pixels will render slower. Im assuming something is set up incorrectly for the OP, or Anand has a newer version of the App he is using that supports the native resolution.
you can tell by looking at the screenshot that something is wrong, the screenshot claims that offscreen is 1080p, the 6 plus has a 1080p screen, the scores should be identical.
the fact that onscreen is higher means its running at a lower resolution by default
same issue, those onscreen and offscreen results should be identical if the onscreen test is ran at 1080p, but it seems to not be
Its that onscreen is going at iPhone 5/5s resolution I bet as the app hasn't been optimized.
the review sites seem to have it going at the correct resolution, however i don't have a 6 plus so i cant play with it.
Something weird is either going on with the app we are all downloading from the app store or Anandtech had access to a beta version of the optimized app maybe?
Like 5%. Not really significant.
I have both the 6 and 6 plus available to me and just ran GFXBench on both of them. The 6 plus scored roughly 5% higher than the 6 on both on and off screen tests - which tells me that there is some kind of resolution-configuration problem for the on screen test in the consumer version of GFXBench.
There is no other logical explanation since the 6 plus should be pushing a much higher resolution and thus have lower scores.
(Unless you think that the 6 plus is actually way faster than the 6 and the offscreen scores are the ones that are wrong.. 0% chance of that)
Not saying that at all. All I said is that the 6 Plus might be clocked slightly higher... Chill bro.
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That pretty much tells us what the people at Anandtech probably did.
It has "preliminary" right in the title. I don't think you could make a more blatant disclaimer than that.
Side note, though, it seems like GFXBench isn't running GPU tests at proper resolutions for the devices. Comparing off-screen benchmarks makes more sense anyway though so it's not too much of an issue. Also, I'd be pretty shocked if 6+ results *weren't* a bit higher than 6 results. They should be - there's more thermal headroom and many more pixels to push.
Side note, though, it seems like GFXBench isn't running GPU tests at proper resolutions for the devices. Comparing off-screen benchmarks makes more sense anyway though so it's not too much of an issue. Also, I'd be pretty shocked if 6+ results *weren't* a bit higher than 6 results. They should be - there's more thermal headroom and many more pixels to push.
Why? Do you use your phone with the screen turned off? Ahhh you just have it in your pocket and glad for the fact that it runs faster, right?
Onscreen trumps offscreen especially utilizing graphics intensive applications like games or photo/video editing apps. If you want a good offscreen performance, grab an iPod Shuffle.
No offense, but this information is incorrect if you've read the previous posts. Let's not spread incorrect information, the anandtech results are correct in that the 6 plus will perform WORSE than the 6 plus in onscreen tests
