first benchmark of the iPhone 6 and.....

[Apple Mac Daz]

It's no different than PC's CPU's.
Haswell isn't much faster than Ivy Bridge but it's main point is the power saving and energy it uses

 

[ozshadow]

Are they benchmarking with IOS 7 on the 5S and IOS 8 on the 6?

I wondering if that means IOS 8 is going to be more demanding and slow down older phones.

 

[2IS]

I laugh at stuff like this. What a spoiled nation we have become when we bitch about a smartphone that has more computing power than NASA did when they put a man on the moon.

I laugh when people post things and haven't a clue how irrelevant it is.

 

[BlueGoldAce]

Back in the day (circa 2011) benchmarks on ANDROID phones were a big deal. I remember that with each generation, there was a huge increase in bench. At the time, with the gingerbread android 2.3 os, a benchmark was very indicative of performance. For example, the galaxy s2 blew the snapdragon wielding competitors out of the water, and this was apparent in benchmarks and everyday use.

Today, with the android os, benchmarks mean very little. A phone (like the moto x) can bench less and yet be the best performing phone for everyday use. Yet...just like in this topic, you have people that can't see past cpu and gpu benchmarks.

Now what is funny is this, WHEN HAS BENCHMARKS MATTER ON iOS? How about never?

iOS has always performed well, and it will continue to this year. With the few exceptions of games like bioshock, older hardware continues to perform well.

Benchmarks have never matter for iOS compared to android.

Isn't that part of the reason you are in the Apple ecosystem? If high benchmarks and blistering specs is your cup of tea, android might better suite you.

 

[bp1000]

So it seems one of the most popular requests is better battery life then you have threads like this with people disappointed by the lack of speed increases shown on benchmarks.

I'm sure they could develop 2ghz processors and give the stat junkies a field day until they run the battery tests.

Got to be some compromise somewhere and I've never thought oh I wish this 5s was faster.

 

[BlueGoldAce]

So it seems one of the most popular requests is better battery life then you have threads like this with people disappointed by the lack of speed increases shown on benchmarks.

I'm sure they could develop 2ghz processors and give the stat junkies a field day until they run the battery tests.

Got to be some compromise somewhere and I've never thought oh I wish this 5s was faster.

Exactly.

 

[pragmatous]

i have the iphone 5. i'm not buying the iphone 6 because its faster. Im buying it for the bigger screen and 128gb of awesome.

It's not much faster than the current 5S :/

http://results.rightware.com/basemark_x/all-all-phone-ios-all

 

[AppleRobert]

How much are you folks anticipating getting extra battery life versus the 5s? (which is most important to me).

This thread has blown my mind with some of the knowledge you folks have. Great read.

 

[TommyA6]

How much are you folks anticipating getting extra battery life versus the 5s? (which is most important to me).

This thread has blown my mind with some of the knowledge you folks have. Great read.

6 will have a slightly better battery life. According to Apple, it will provide anywhere from 10% to 40% better battery life (obviously depending on your usage).

6+ on the other hand will have a significantly better battery life. 20% to 140% better, according to Apple.

 

[AppleRobert]

6 will have a slightly better battery life. According to Apple, it will provide anywhere from 10% to 40% better battery life (obviously depending on your usage).

6+ on the other hand will have a significantly better battery life. 20% to 140% better, according to Apple.

Rather a big swing low to highest. Usage is key obviously but to get the highest I question how much the device is really used at all.

Thanks for your reply. I am not typically a heavy user per se but even so a reason I sold my 5s was because of battery life.

 

[Jimmy James]

5S is 20th on the list of phone performance overall. 6 is 17th, thats bad for a new phone not even released yet.

My concern is this phone will be fine for iOS 8., but if they want to add any new features which require even a hint of better performance, the 6 will suffer for it. I am afraid it might be the iPad 3 of the iPhones which had a worse performance than ipad 2 due to retina

We now have performance overhead that didn't exist at the time if the iPad 3. Not even on the non-retina versions. That device under performed at launch. Not nearly so with the iPhone 6.

 

[TommyA6]

Rather a big swing low to highest. Usage is key obviously but to get the highest I question how much the device is really used at all.

Thanks for your reply. I am not typically a heavy user per se but even so a reason I sold my 5s was because of battery life.

It really depends on usage. The biggest increase will be in 3G talk time (100+% for 6 Plus). 20% increase will be seen in LTE and wifi browsing, while 3G browsing time will see an increase of about 50% etc. (also for 6 Plus)

 

[danilko1]

I find it a little funny, the performance chart has all quad core 2.x GHz Snap Dragons, until they reach the iPhone, and it has 1.3GB Dual Core. Pound for Pound, the iPhone will have better performance and last longer, on the same charge.

Also, the top leaders are simply the same phone. 16 slots taken up by the same CPU running the same OS. Many of them one model number different from the next. What imagination.

The chart is misleading.

 

[Noble Actual]

I wouldn't expect much.

Even Apple said the CPU increase was 25% while GPU was 50%.

But upgrading from an iPhone 4 with the A4 chip...the iPhone 6 is going to be much for me.

 

[sunking101]

I find it a little funny, the performance chart has all quad core 2.x GHz Snap Dragons, until they reach the iPhone, and it has 1.3GB Dual Core. Pound for Pound, the iPhone will have better performance and last longer, on the same charge.

Also, the top leaders are simply the same phone. 16 slots taken up by the same CPU running the same OS. Many of them one model number different from the next. What imagination.

The chart is misleading.

The premium Android phones have much better battery life than iPhones. The 5 and 5S are dire in that respect.

 

[TroyBoy30]

I disagree. None of my top end android phones can match my iPhone 5 in battery life

 

[BlueGoldAce]

I disagree. None of my top end android phones can match my iPhone 5 in battery life

I'm an apple fan....but the galaxy s5, the note three, are just two examples that have superb battery life.

 

[sunking101]

I disagree. None of my top end android phones can match my iPhone 5 in battery life

Do you have the S5 or the M8? Both slay the iPhone 5S when it comes to battery life.

 

[MrX8503]

Do you have the S5 or the M8? Both slay the iPhone 5S when it comes to battery life.

My coworker complains about his S5's battery life all the time.

 

[cynics]

My coworker complains about his S5's battery life all the time.

Probably his usage patterns. An iPhone would only be worse for him when compared to the S5.

It also depends on what he's doing. It does better a somethings more significantly then others.

Regardless I wouldn't exactly say the top Android devices "slay" the iPhone. I really wish Apple would have come out of the gate with guns blazing when it came to battery life with the 6 though, they could have made it the same thickness as the 6+ which is still very thin and stuck a bigger battery in it.

 

[sunking101]

Probably his usage patterns. An iPhone would only be worse for him when compared to the S5.

It also depends on what he's doing. It does better a somethings more significantly then others.

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Regardless I wouldn't exactly say the top Android devices "slay" the iPhone. I really wish Apple would have come out of the gate with guns blazing when it came to battery life with the 6 though, they could have made it the same thickness as the 6+ which is still very thin and stuck a bigger battery in it.

Perhaps 'slay' is a smidgeon exaggerated. However, the S5 has a battery saving mode whereby you can only send/receive SMS and make/take calls. It makes the battery last hours longer and is good for when you're away for the weekend at a festival or something. So over and above the better WiFi and LTE browsing battery specs, you have this extreme battery saving mode. The HTC M8 has something similar.

 

[mellofello]

Slay May be too strong a term, but my note 3 lasts, and lasts. I was shocked the first time I charged it though. It takes 3+ hours to charge to 100% whereas my iphone 5 took about half that.

 

[Zerilos]

This is one of about a dozen GPU tests that will be run in the future.

 

[Steviejobz]

I'm an Apple homer and the Android switching cost would be too great but the Galaxy S5 is an awesome phone. When I see one I'm always amazed.

 

[Paddle1]

Back in the day (circa 2011) benchmarks on ANDROID phones were a big deal. I remember that with each generation, there was a huge increase in bench. At the time, with the gingerbread android 2.3 os, a benchmark was very indicative of performance. For example, the galaxy s2 blew the snapdragon wielding competitors out of the water, and this was apparent in benchmarks and everyday use.

Today, with the android os, benchmarks mean very little. A phone (like the moto x) can bench less and yet be the best performing phone for everyday use. Yet...just like in this topic, you have people that can't see past cpu and gpu benchmarks.

Now what is funny is this, WHEN HAS BENCHMARKS MATTER ON iOS? How about never?

iOS has always performed well, and it will continue to this year. With the few exceptions of games like bioshock, older hardware continues to perform well.

Benchmarks have never matter for iOS compared to android.

Isn't that part of the reason you are in the Apple ecosystem? If high benchmarks and blistering specs is your cup of tea, android might better suite you.

iPhone 3G? iPad 3? Only the more powerful devices perform well in later updates. Have you used a 4 with iOS 7?