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Early Graphics Benchmarks Show Significant Boost for iPhone 5s

dmylrea said:
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). :D
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Larger for normal sized hands? Sure.

But, then again, you look like a yob when you take a giant phone out of your pocket and start fiddling around with it in front of people.
 
gnasher729 said:
Much earlier in this thread it was explained that one benchmark was limited to 60fps. Once you display 60 frames per second, the benchmark isn't going to run any faster, no matter how fast the GPU is.
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Ah, well that would hinder the results drastically. Thanks for pointing that out. Why limit the results to 60fps?
 
MOKHAN said:
My 4S is all the way down there! :(
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It could be worse, you could be like me and have an iPhone 4.

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dmylrea said:
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). :D
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No. It's not just a question of hands (which most of the world has that are smaller than fat-add American's) it's also the size of the phone in your pocket... !
 
imageWIS said:
No. It's not just a question of hands (which most of the world has that are smaller than fat-add American's) it's also the size of the phone in your pocket... !
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That's even dumber, my Note2 fits perfectly in the pockets of any pants that I have, and I use pretty tight pants. (btw, i'm not fat nor american)

But this is pointless.

The "3.5'' is the perfect, oh wait, 4'' is the perfect size for a phone" idea is too deeply engraved in some people's minds. And to see Apple admit they where wrong and to follow other companies by increasing the screen is too hard for them to handle.
 
sethlution said:
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 :(
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If bigger is better, how about something that is 7.9" of diagonal screen size? Its called an iPad mini. You can watch movies all the live long day with one. Surf the internet. Whatever.

Other vendors are going out with this hybrid phone/tablet idea and then they are going to try to sell you a watch that is a supplement. Frankly, its a swiss army knife of mobile devices. Its too big to be inconspicuous like a mobile phone should be. (Thus the need for the smart watch). And its quite small for viewing movies on a plane or for older people to use to surf the internet or read email.

If I am going to carry two devices, I will carry a small cell phone and a proper sized tablet. Done.
 
gnasher729 said:
Wrong. The A7 CPU has 31 general purpose registers instead of 15, 32 128-bit vector registers instead of 16, and can perform double precision floating-point arithmetic on vectors, which previous CPUs can't do. That will make most code a lot more efficient.
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How can you know these specifics? Give us a link to your source. Or it didn't happen. :cool:
 
holmesf said:
It's far, far beyond a G3 era computer :)

If the GPU performance really has doubled over the iPad 4 then the GPU is comparable to a Geforce 8600, which shipped in the mid 2007 Macbook Pro. This is going by theoretical GFlops.

If the CPU performance really has double over the iPad 4 then the CPU is comparable to a Core 2 Duo (many Macs from the years 2007 - 2010). This is going by Geekbench scores.
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wow... that's actually pretty amazing when put into that kind of a perspective.
 
I'm glad to see Apple is continuing to push the bar. I can't wait for the official full benchmark breakdown from Anandtech.
 
For those interested about why this GPU is so much better, here's a tweet from the head of their GPU drivers group.

https://twitter.com/gavkar/status/377834073785245697

Some of these make a big difference/ eg: we implemented light pre pass w MRTs + frame-buffer fetch in 1 pass instead of 3.
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What he's talking about is applying lighting to multiple graphics textures in addition to fetching these from memory in 1/3 the time.
 
rtdunham said:
John Gruber wrote, "Now that they’ve gone 64-bit, I’ve got to start wondering about ARM-based MacBooks in the near future." Can someone elaborate/explain for me? Thanks.
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64-bit would allow them to, in theory, open the door for them to support all the higher end, ram hungry programs you'd currently expect to run on the Intel Macs. The potential is there.

...though potential is all it is at the moment. Even with 64-bit support, ARM chips are too much of a downgrade from the i5-i7's used even in the MBA. By near future, I'm sure he means in the next 5-6 years.

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Number 41 said:
But, then again, you look like a yob when you take a giant phone out of your pocket and start fiddling around with it in front of people.
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Depends on what you mean by "giant". If you're talking about the phablets, then yeah, I kinda agree. But if you're talking about the Galaxy S4 and other 5" displays, they're not really all that much bigger than the iPhone. You'd look about as yobbish with one of those as you would doing it with a 4" screen.
 
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