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Early Graphics Benchmarks Show Significant Boost for iPhone 5s
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The 800 only comes with the 330. They'll downclock it, if anything.
IMO opinion Apple has surpassed them with the A7.
It means that the speed and compatibility of the 64 bit processor is such that it is starting to become a viable candidate for laptops, given iOS and OSX share a codebase.
I'm not just talking from a GPU perspective. I'm talking from a CPU perspective. Qualcomm hasn't even announced a 64 bit part yet.
As for GPU, match them on a perf/watt scale. I bet anything Rogue is superior to Adreno 3xx.
http://blog.gsmarena.com/the-first-benchmarks-scores-of-samsung-galaxy-note-3-are-in/
I have seriously doubs that the a7 will surpass the snapdragon 800 in performance per watt. The snapdragon 800 is a huge leap forward in that department. Also the whole 64bit thing really means nothing. Intel Medfield and clovertrail are already both 64bit and power both phones and tablets. The only real benefit 64bit would have is to be able to address over 4gb of ram in a single thread. As it stands, there's no real use case for that in mobile, especially since browser tabs all run in their own process. Arm v7 already supports addressing up to 1tb of ram already. Its just limited to 4gb per process. Just look at games like crysis. They are all still 32bit binaries.
Agreed. But if I end up with one (I'm buying one for a friend, but may hold out one more time for a larger screen for my own, "Iveian ergonomics" be damned), happy to know I'm a bit future-proofed in terms of the next few iterations of iOS and apps to come.
I.e., with 64 bit capability this iPhone will still be a) doing things it won't during its first year, b) doing yeoman duty in handling what iOS 8 and 9 offer, and so c) will not be fully obselesced when it becomes the "free one" in two years....
...Also, as others have pointed out since it was announced, Apple may well have designs on using its own processors in at least an entry level of notebooks or hybrid devices within one or two more SoC revs, and so having all of their hardware on 64 bit will simply make tech and engineering sense and increase the synergy between OS X and iOS (assuming they remain separate but highly parallel OSes).
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Not really. It's a modest bump in IPC from around 3.3 to 3.4 DMIPs/MHz.
The significance of 64 bit has nothing to do with the amount of RAM that can be addressed. Along with it, the number of registers has doubled, it can address new, more powerful instructions that Apple has likely already coded to, and Apple has likely doubled the L2 cache as well. It's also a pretty safe bet the execution/dispatch paths have widened too. There's about a 16% IPC jump from Cortex A15 to A57, and that's probably a general guide for their performance jump too. It's not a small jump. Apple also typically has faster and/or wider memory interfaces compared to everyone else. Apple backups their 2x speedup claims with actual scenarios.
so does this mean my calls are faster ?
im so "meh" about a performance boost in graphics, id have been more impressed if they had said they had doubled the battery life
im so "meh" about a performance boost in graphics, id have been more impressed if they had said they had doubled the battery life
For sure in the iPad 5 refresh but in this case, Apple might just make a refresh for the Mini using this A7 chip, more RAM and beef up that NAND flash. Letting the screen alone so it can destroy all smaller tablets in the benchmarks. This give some incentive for mini users to upgrade ...
Are some or you guys actually trying to say the A7 is more powerful than the Snapdragon 800... Fanboyism at its finest.
The 800 blows the A7 away, sorry its a fact. A7 is a good chip but its outdated before release like everything in the 5S and stupid me I've decided to still get it, I sold my 5. I'm one of those guys who's got to have the best iOS phone and android phone so incoming G2 after the great reviews and incoming the 5S. Best of both worlds.
The 800 blows the A7 away, sorry its a fact. A7 is a good chip but its outdated before release like everything in the 5S and stupid me I've decided to still get it, I sold my 5. I'm one of those guys who's got to have the best iOS phone and android phone so incoming G2 after the great reviews and incoming the 5S. Best of both worlds.
You've not seen any benchmarks and consequently have no idea what you're talking about.
The note 2 slide in and out of my pocket smoothly. I'm not sure what kind of pants you've been wearing. I'm not saying the next iphone should be as large as the note line, but something in the range of 4.65-5" wouldn't hurt. A lot of people, myself included, are waiting for this one feature. In fact, I would be more than happy to buy a bigger screen iPhone with a 5 spec right now
Same here, slow answering times are killing me. I love Siri and use it more and more, but sometimes setting a timer takes 5 to 8 seconds. It must be because of the poor internet connection here. So my hopes are some day Siri would be able to act independently from the internet at least for the easy tasks.
Oh and please a slider to speed her talking up for 10 to 20% would be nice. Sometimes you read the reply but she is talking and talking slowly...
Almost none of that holds true anymore. The iPhone is not ahead of the competition at all, either technically or in terms of market share. People aren't stupid, the 5C is a year old phone with a plastic shell on it.
Additionally, Jobs had the added buffer of a decade doing nothing but great work bringing Apple back from the edge of bankruptcy. There is no such saving grace as far as Cook is concerned.
Thats it fanboy, release your anger because it is you who are wrong.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1634100/Read first, talk later.
No not necessarily. 64 bit also allows to use 32 bit. I don't know the technical details here. But in most situations 64bit is at least as fast as 32 bit. For mathematical stuff 64 bit is always faster if your code is using 64 bit as it should
The note 2 slide in and out of my pocket smoothly. I'm not sure what kind of pants you've been wearing. I'm not saying the next iphone should be as large as the note line, but something in the range of 4.65-5" wouldn't hurt. A lot of people, myself included, are waiting for this one feature. In fact, I would be more than happy to buy a bigger screen iPhone with a 5 spec right now
Don't bother, people like that won't see reason until apple launches a bigger iphone, then all the "one-handed" and "pocket" problems will vanish.
By some responses some people here think a note is the size of an ipad mini.
i'm sorry you have small hands and stature. As technology marches on for the rest of us and we get slightly larger screens for normal sized hands, they already have a solution for you:
http://www.apple.com/ipod-touch/
Just add Skype. (and see how much like a real phone your "solution" is).