Do you really honestly think the iPhone 5/6 will be Quad-Core?

[takezo808]

No, it won't, because LTE is a bigger priority for sales and Apple is all about battery life, which will go down the drain if they use a Quad Core CPU. The graphics may be Quad, but the CPU will remain Dual Core.

I really don't know why you guys think it will be Quad Core, especially considering that the phone will be thinner, as well.

It may be the similar specs as the 4S with a slight speed bump to the GPU.
Ipad 3's 4G technology, bigger screen, redesigned phone. Will focus more on iOS 6 improvements, and 4G technologies. Phone will whoop ass as iphones before it. Samsung's new phablets are just big. But will that be enough? samsung Gallaxy 4 can't get bigger than 5" because that would be too much, how would Samsung woo the non tech savy users who only think a good smart phone has a bigger screen? Maybe this round with the near 5" Galaxy 3 but next year? what will they have? Nothing. The redesigned iphone 5 will probably benchmark for next year's phones which will probably shrink back to 4" screen size and mimick iphone 5 design.

 

[ryanlawrence171]

Yes definitely because Samsung galaxy s3 is comes with “Qualcomm S4 processor”. It’s very big competitor of iPhone 5 so if iPhone want to stay in market so it should have high congregation like “Quad Core” processor.

 

[Mackan]

Apple will not use quad-core, or NFC. These are for upgrades for iPhone 6/7. Too obvious. This new model will likely have a new design, and support LTE. That's what Apple will brag about.

However, they better make it multi-band LTE. To only make the LTE work in the U.S is failure. Just like with The New iPad, which they actually got sued for.

 

[cynics]

It may be the similar specs as the 4S with a slight speed bump to the GPU.
Ipad 3's 4G technology, bigger screen, redesigned phone. Will focus more on iOS 6 improvements, and 4G technologies. Phone will whoop ass as iphones before it. Samsung's new phablets are just big. But will that be enough? samsung Gallaxy 4 can't get bigger than 5" because that would be too much, how would Samsung woo the non tech savy users who only think a good smart phone has a bigger screen? Maybe this round with the near 5" Galaxy 3 but next year? what will they have? Nothing. The redesigned iphone 5 will probably benchmark for next year's phones which will probably shrink back to 4" screen size and mimick iphone 5 design.

So in short you think the new iPhone will have some of the technologies of last years phones (not all; NFC) and at the same time the largest electronic company on the planet will run out of ideas?

 

[Jb07]

A quad core iPhone 5 is completely baseless, right?

What about this?

Or this?

Maybe this?

How about this?

 

[ugahairydawgs]

No...and I don't see any glaring reason as to why it would need to be.

 

[Calidude]

Yes definitely because Samsung galaxy s3 is comes with “Qualcomm S4 processor”. It’s very big competitor of iPhone 5 so if iPhone want to stay in market so it should have high congregation like “Quad Core” processor.

Apple isn't about beating the competitor on CPU or RAM. It's about matching them on CPU/RAM and then beating them on hardware, support and software synergy.

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A quad core iPhone 5 is completely baseless, right?

What about this?

Or this?

Maybe this?

How about this?

All those articles come from a Digitimes source and they are usually wrong or post rumors just to get press. You don't see the Exynos paired with an LTE offering.

 

[beamer8912]

I don't think it will. I just don't think the OS needs, plus the issue with the current quads and LTE. That's the reason the GS3 doesn't get it in the US. Battery life isn't an issue much, quads with properly designed OS are more efficient with the cores evening out additional power use.

I haven't heard about these issues yet, could you elaborate?

 

[Sincci]

All those articles come from a Digitimes source and they are usually wrong or post rumors just to get press. You don't see the Exynos paired with an LTE offering.

The South Korean models SHV-E210K/L/S have Exynos Exynos 4412 CPU (which is a Quad core), 2GB of RAM and LTE/HSPA+ (depending on the carrier either 800Mhz or 1800Mhz for LTE and 2100 and 1900Mhz for HSPA+).

 

[cynics]

I haven't heard about these issues yet, could you elaborate?

There's been issues making certain LTE chipsets work with certain cpu's. Example would be nvidia's tegra 2, took forever for them to make it work right.

I'd suggest googling it, there are lengthy tech articles on the subject.

 

[lordofthereef]

That's not how polls "work".

Doesn't matter. You certainly know you don't care before even entering the poll, right? By the way, you sarcasm sensors seem to be off today.

 

[JAT]

Doesn't matter. You certainly know you don't care before even entering the poll, right? By the way, you sarcasm sensors seem to be off today.

They always are.

But polls are not conversations. All of the Above and None of the Above (or equivalents) are valid responses to gain a better statistical population.

 

[Wilson1313]

Totally not worth it. You could easily have a faster dual-core beat a quad core- remember it is not all about the number of cores or clock speed- people often forget about architecture. It's like trying to compare a Pentium Dual-Core and a newer Intel i3. The iPhone 4S is based on ARM's A9 architecture. What they should in the new iPhone is upgrade to an ARM A15 dual-core, which according to ARM is 40 percent faster than the Cortex-A9 clocked the same.

 

[tech4all]

No, it won't

/thread then.

because LTE is a bigger priority for sales and Apple is all about battery life, which will go down the drain if they use a Quad Core CPU. The graphics may be Quad, but the CPU will remain Dual Core.

I haven't read the thread yet, but don't think you think Apple is designed something that is more power efficient and has more power to watts ratio?

I really don't know why you guys think it will be Quad Core, especially considering that the phone will be thinner, as well.

Unless you're an Apple engineer, you don't know that.

 

[nuckinfutz]

Totally not worth it. You could easily have a faster dual-core beat a quad core- remember it is not all about the number of cores or clock speed- people often forget about architecture. It's like trying to compare a Pentium Dual-Core and a newer Intel i3. The iPhone 4S is based on ARM's A9 architecture. What they should in the new iPhone is upgrade to an ARM A15 dual-core, which according to ARM is 40 percent faster than the Cortex-A9 clocked the same.

And there are usage scenarios where a quad core beats a dual core. It really all depends on how things are architected on a software level. There is no correct answer here because the context could be vastly different.

 

[kevinbomb123]

It will be the Intel i7 990x at 3.2ghz.


My one friend said this one guy told him so.

 

[lordofthereef]

They always are.

But polls are not conversations. All of the Above and None of the Above (or equivalents) are valid responses to gain a better statistical population.

I have yet to see a single poll here that gave any sort of statistical relevance to anything. Polls are (almost) always written with bias and are no better than the conversations they are not supposed to become.

 

[newyorksole]

why? Why does it have to stop?
What harm does it do for users to speculate?
So a small, insignificant minority of iphone users are disappointed
is that really a big deal?

Stop 100 random iphone users on the street in anytown, usa and ask them what processor is in their iphone and see if any can give you an answer

i don't care if it is a4/a5/a6/ax with dual, quad or deca cores
all i care about is the user experience
and so far, apple has balanced user experience, speed, battery life, resolution and size in a way that gets my $$

preach !!!!

 

[MythicFrost]

No, it won't, because LTE is a bigger priority for sales and Apple is all about battery life, which will go down the drain if they use a Quad Core CPU. The graphics may be Quad, but the CPU will remain Dual Core.

I really don't know why you guys think it will be Quad Core, especially considering that the phone will be thinner, as well.

Using a quad-core over a dual-core can actually improve battery life as tasks which require such horsepower can finish quicker and get back to idle.

For some tasks the power consumption would be the same, and in others a little more or a little less. The only instance where it would use twice the power of the dual-core, is in a game or an app which utilises the quad-core continuously until the app is quit rather than just to finish a particular task. And a lot of things won't use a quad-core so for a lot of the time those two cores will just be sitting idle, consuming almost no power.

You've got to take into account that the A6 will be produced at 32nm, not at 45nm like the A5 in the iPhone 4S so you'll actually see a huge reduction in power consumption. And it's using Samsung's lower leakage process which decreases leakage by 10x for the entire SoC.

Read this article from Anandtech about the 32nm A5 in the iPad2,4 for more information about it -- battery life improved by up to 29%. The die shrink not only effects the CPU, but the entire SoC, including the GPU. So gaming improves greatly. Heat and costs are reduced too.

So we should actually see much, much better battery life in the iPhone 5 even if they don't increase the size of the battery. Even more so if they use IGZO displays!

I hope they'll use the dual-core Cortex A15 though, as it has much better single-threaded performance. And it definitely won't use quad-core graphics, not only would that consume just as much power as quad-core CPU if not more, it would be doing so regularly in a game.

 

[JAT]

I have yet to see a single poll here that gave any sort of statistical relevance to anything. Polls are (almost) always written with bias and are no better than the conversations they are not supposed to become.

No argument here. I thought my first post fit in well with that attitude.

I like the polls at woot.com, their purpose is comedy, and they are well done with good choices. Usually.

 

[bushman4]

Why do you need a quad core chip besides bragging rights. Unless the iPhone 5
a 'secret feature we don't know about.

 

[blackhand1001]

It doesn't matter as Apple is sure to have put a great deal of effort into ensuring iOS 6 is mated perfectly to the hardware.

To me the A5X slightly downclocked would be fine, especially since it runs the iPad3 without effort and the iPhone5 will have about a 1/3 of the pixels to push.

A dual core CPU, and the latest PowerVR GPU will probably be overkill if anything.

A5x has terrible power consumption. You wouldn't want that in the iPhone 5. Especially since the omap 5 and the snapdragon s4 pro will be out by then and those both obliterate the a5x in cpu benchmarks but also in gpu benchmarks. The omap 5 is a true cortex a15. Its even better than the s4's CPU.

 

[fins831]

The A5X would be terrible for the iPhone, the power consumption ratios are different and wouldn't work well with the iPhone. If tablets are going to keep pushing the envelope to mirror laptops, then I think the (x) chips will stick with the iPads and the normal A5 or A6 will stick with the iPhone.

I believe this next chip will be a quad core. If the software is written properly, the power consumption of a quad cord could theoretically be more efficient than dual core...

I honestly think a bump in RAM is more necessary than 2 more cores, but I honestly think that power consumption/battery life should be the main effort in the iPhone 5, there is a huge falloff between the iPhone 4 and 4S, and my 4S gets terrible battery life by comparison.

I expect a quad core iPhone 5, I just don't see the need for it, when LTE is going to adversely affect my battery life (hopefully i'll be able to turn it off)

 

[blackhand1001]

The A5X would be terrible for the iPhone, the power consumption ratios are different and wouldn't work well with the iPhone. If tablets are going to keep pushing the envelope to mirror laptops, then I think the (x) chips will stick with the iPads and the normal A5 or A6 will stick with the iPhone.

I believe this next chip will be a quad core. If the software is written properly, the power consumption of a quad cord could theoretically be more efficient than dual core...

I honestly think a bump in RAM is more necessary than 2 more cores, but I honestly think that power consumption/battery life should be the main effort in the iPhone 5, there is a huge falloff between the iPhone 4 and 4S, and my 4S gets terrible battery life by comparison.

I expect a quad core iPhone 5, I just don't see the need for it, when LTE is going to adversely affect my battery life (hopefully i'll be able to turn it off)

Blame the power sgx 543mp2 for the battery life. Its a fast gpu but its also huge and uses retarded amount of power. The a5 is 133mm^2. Even the quad core tegra 3 is only 80mm^2. The a5x is even worse, its over 165mm^2.

 

[faroZ06]

Where's the option for: Don't give a ****.

I'd vote on that one. The iPhone 1 is already fast enough for me.

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It will be the Intel i7 990x at 3.2ghz.


My one friend said this one guy told him so.

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Unless you're an Apple engineer, you don't know that.

There have been reports released about it being thinner, and it's very likely without those reports anyway.