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Benchmarks: iOS 6 vs iOS 7

brijazz

brijazz

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Can anyone let me know where I can see iOS 6 and iOS 7 benchmarks across different devices?

I use an iPhone 4 and an iPad 2... both at the lowest end of minimum requirements to run iOS 7, and I'm concerned that they'll slow to a crawl if I update. I realize that iOS 7 is still in beta, but with the rumored September 10 release right around the corner, I can't imagine that any massive performance changes are coming in the public version. So, recent benchmarking should be enough to compare by, I would assume.
 
I'm not sure where you can find comparisons, but my iPhone 4S went from around 635-640 on Geekbench on iOS 6 to ~605 on iOS 7 betas 3-4. I haven't tested with the latest betas because I'm waiting until GM. Hopefully the reduction was just a beta thing.
 
Paddle1 said:
iOS 7 makes the 4S weaker? This can't be good for iPhone 4.
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Its generally the trend with all software updates on older hardware; they are designed mainly for the new devices. Apple decides to remove certain debilitating features (such as parallax) from older devices so they can still run moderately decent on the new OS. Its their way of justifying "low fragmentation" of iOS and because they dont support downgrading of software, eventually the reduction of speed or lack of features will entice you to upgrade to a newer device; hence profit.
 
brijazz said:
Can anyone let me know where I can see iOS 6 and iOS 7 benchmarks across different devices?

I use an iPhone 4 and an iPad 2... both at the lowest end of minimum requirements to run iOS 7, and I'm concerned that they'll slow to a crawl if I update. I realize that iOS 7 is still in beta, but with the rumored September 10 release right around the corner, I can't imagine that any massive performance changes are coming in the public version. So, recent benchmarking should be enough to compare by, I would assume.
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you'll be three generations behind come next month (well, 2 behind on the ipad but another refresh seems to be coming).

i'd honestly recommend saving up and upgrading if speed and functionality is important to you. upgrading from a 4 to a 5 made an impact on me, my phone felt FAST for the first time in 2 years.
 
Performance of shipping product should be better then what's in the beta in theory.

Betas normally have debug code that slow things down compared to the final versions.

Best example that most people can try is VMware Fusion public beta. Those go out with verbose debugging enabled and take a performance hit because of it. You can disable debug logging and performance is noticeably faster.

If it helps though, on my iPad mini (same hardware as iPad 2) iOS 7 runs very well for me.
 
Wouldn't it be more beneficial and accurate to have any benchmark comparisons between the two iOS versions when iOS:7 is out of Beta?
 
PNutts said:
Yes. Never benchmark a beta.
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I would never ask for a benchmark on an early beta, but I'm figuring that with the (rumored) public release date only 11 days away that most of the major optimization is complete and that the most recent beta should be able to provide a fair indicator of the GM's performance.

Of course, I'd love to be proven wrong and see that the GM is much faster!
 
iOS7 Beta will be much slower than 6 because of the Debugger thats running constantly in the background, Final release (GM) won't have the debugger running and won't be as slow and of course battery levels will be much better
 
MarcusCarpenter said:
iOS7 Beta will be much slower than 6 because of the Debugger thats running constantly in the background, Final release (GM) won't have the debugger running and won't be as slow and of course battery levels will be much better
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Good to know, thanks!
 
MarcusCarpenter said:
iOS7 Beta will be much slower than 6 because of the Debugger thats running constantly in the background, Final release (GM) won't have the debugger running and won't be as slow and of course battery levels will be much better
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Not only this, but, also the GM will be tightened up, and optimized for speed/battery life.

Just wait a little longer for the GM, it'll be here soon.
 
benji888 said:
Not only this, but, also the GM will be tightened up, and optimized for speed/battery life.

Just wait a little longer for the GM, it'll be here soon.
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Ah I can't wait! Third party apps as well updating to ios 7!
 
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iOS 6.1.4 iPhone 5.

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iOS 7 GM iPhone 5.

As you can see, extremely disappointing.
 
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My Geekbench 3 Score...

richard6r said:
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iOS 6.1.4 iPhone 5.



iOS 7 GM iPhone 5.

As you can see, extremely disappointing.
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I'm not sure why you got such poor results. I DFU'ed my iPhone 5 with the GM today. Here's what I got:
 

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I hope this isn't a case of Apple purposefully throttling the CPU during benchmarks like another company that shall remain unnamed...
 
It's probably a case of Geekbench not updating their software yet.

On Sunspider 1.0.1 I get better results on iOS 7 than iOS 6.

710ms on my iPhone 5
 
MarcusCarpenter said:
iOS7 Beta will be much slower than 6 because of the Debugger thats running constantly in the background, Final release (GM) won't have the debugger running and won't be as slow and of course battery levels will be much better
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Well obviously this isnt true, the GM on my iPhone 5 is showing the transitions to be a little slow!!
 
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