Benchmarking Beast Dual-Core iPhone 5s beats Quad Cores Androids

[KenAFSPC]

Can someone dumb this down for us non techies? I use my phone to (in order of highest occurance rate)
web browser
email
So doing the things above, which phone does it the fastest? I and most others dont use to much software that takes alot of power. Please answer in simple terms.

The iPhone 5S is the fastest for all of those tasks. However, in most cases, the improvement over other new devices is negligible and you will rarely notice a difference (e.g., a tenth of a second to load a web page). That said, the 5S is a noticeable improvement over a number of 1-2 year old devices. A half second vs. a second, over and over during the course of a day, is quite noticeable.

 

[JulianL]

The iPhone 5S is the fastest for all of those tasks. However, in most cases, the improvement over other new devices is negligible and you will rarely notice a difference (e.g., a tenth of a second to load a web page). That said, the 5S is a noticeable improvement over a number of 1-2 year old devices. A half second vs. a second, over and over during the course of a day, is quite noticeable.

For me the main thing I notice about the speed of my phone is the delay between tapping an icon and the app being up and running, assuming that app hasn't been run in the last few minutes and isn't still in memory. With pretty much every CPU in a modern high-end phone I suspect that app launching is mainly limited by I/O bandwidth to the flash storage.

I've never seen any benchmark comparisons for the storage on modern phones using the sort of tests that any decent hardware review site uses when reviewing a hard drive - things like sequential read speed, sequential write speed, random I/O speeds at different block sizes, etc. As a non-gamer I suspect that these benchmarks would be more relevant to my general day to day experience of how fast my phone is than how many polygons per second the GPU can draw.

The Infinity Blade people claiming 5x faster startup times does hold out some hope that Apple have made some significant improvements in flash I/O performance but I'd love to see some hard data comparing the 5s with previous iPhones and with various Samsung and HTC devices. Does such data exist?