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Geekbench Scores Suggest iPhone 7 Outperforms Current 12.9-Inch iPad Pro

Wowereit said:
Sorry, missed the 4.
There is something seriously wrong with Geekbench 4. Huawei's Kirin 955 beats Snapdragon 820 in single core performance, which doesn't seem to fit with anything we've seen in any other benchmark including Geekbench 3 or even real life performance.
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Actually thats exactly what other sites measured:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10559/the-samsung-galaxy-note7-s820-review/4



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Huawei's chip is seriously good (not A9 level good though). I use the google benchmarks since nobody can claim they are favouring apple's devices...
 
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Wowereit said:
Sorry, missed the 4.
There is something seriously wrong with Geekbench 4. Huawei's Kirin 955 beats Snapdragon 820 in single core performance, which doesn't seem to fit with anything we've seen in any other benchmark including Geekbench 3 or even real life performance.
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Don't pay attention to scores posted online. People fake them all the time. You have to go to the Geekbench website and look at their charts.

This is the Android top score chart.

https://browser.primatelabs.com/android-benchmarks

This is the iOS top score chart.

https://browser.primatelabs.com/ios-benchmarks
 
dmylrea said:
What's the point, though? How much speed do you need to perform the tasks that most people use their smartphone for?
I can (sort of) see the iPad Pro needing this kind of speed because Apple wants people to use it as a computer and do "computer things" with it. But, your iPhone? Email, browsing, banking, watching video, social media? You really need a pocket-rocket phone for that?

Part of the reason there are less "new features" in the iPhone 7 is because Apple seems content (as always) making it thinner and faster. That's their "innovation".
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Based on today's standards the iPhone 6/6 Plus are laggy. Faster is always better! The iPhone 8 will make this seem slow. It's the natural progression of CPU and GPU advancement.
 
That's crazy given the 12.9 IPP runs like butter. My iPhone 6 has been showing its age though and has been sluggish. So ready to upgrade :D
 
Honestly I don't really care any more how fast my iPhone is. My internet speed is the biggest bottleneck. Do I want it to increase over time? Sure, it will keep up with the software. But right now it's plenty fast, beyond anything I normally do (although below I go into some possibilities). However, this has me really excited about how fast the new iPad Pro will be since I use more advanced apps on there. I hope that rumored 10.5" iPad has at least 4GB of RAM for more professional apps to use. Given the iPad Pro is about 30% faster than the 6s, I hope the new iPad Pro is about 30% faster than this thing. That would put the performance within striking distance of the base-model MacBook Pro. Crazy!

I really have to wonder what Apple will use this speed for, aside from encoding and playing back 4K videos at 60fps. Maybe we'll also get a new setting to record live photos at 30fps instead of 15fps or whatever they are now. Or maybe the iPhone will get other advanced camera capabilities beyond some of the far-fetched dual-camera possibilities. Stuff like taking a photo constantly at a set interval while the camera app is open, and then letting you pick out some photos from right before and right after you took your photo. Maybe it could use AI to analyze the photo, and suggest one from right before or after because there is less motion blur, better focus, or the person has a better smile and their eyes open. There's some cool stuff you could do with cameras that have crazy fast CPUs. Running AI analysis on real-time streaming imaging data is one of those cool things. There are dozens of other possibilities, so it will be interesting to see what Apple does with all this power.
 
If this is true then seriously, it is amazing. Now we see why Apple called it the 'iPhone 7' and not 'iPhone 6SE' or '6SS' or some other nonsense.

Seriously the most revolutionary jump in performance ever.
 
Juan007 said:
If this is true then seriously, it is amazing. Now we see why Apple called it the 'iPhone 7' and not 'iPhone 6SE' or '6SS' or some other nonsense.

Seriously the most revolutionary jump in performance ever.
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well not really, iPhone 5 from 4s was a 160% performance jump, this is more like 40%. Still very impressive compared to others.
 
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Juan007 said:
If this is true then seriously, it is amazing. Now we see why Apple called it the 'iPhone 7' and not 'iPhone 6SE' or '6SS' or some other nonsense.

Seriously the most revolutionary jump in performance ever.
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The jump from the A8 in the 6 to the A9 in 6s was a bit bigger - 36%, vs 26% for the A9 -> A10 result rumored in this article (single-core results). Still a big jump considering how fast the A9 was and how hard it is to get further CPU performance improvements these days.
 
creediddy said:
Based on today's standards the iPhone 6/6 Plus are laggy. Faster is always better! The iPhone 8 will make this seem slow. It's the natural progression of CPU and GPU advancement.
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Based on reality (and actual usage of the apps most people use their iPhone for), it isn't laggy. Mine isn't. If a faster CPU is worth spending $1000 for, then all the power to you. I need more than a faster CPU to get me to separate myself from $1000.
 
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... a single-core score of 3379 and multi-core score of 5495 show that a 400MHz A10 processor easily beats the performance of the A9 in the iPhone 6s Plus, which scores 2490 and 4341, respectively.
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OK. Right. So I want everyone into my office now! After that I want to know who of you came up with the idea that our High-Performance Cluster should rely on a cluster of 65 thousand 12,9" iPad Pro's.
 
BootsWalking said:
The jump from the A8 in the 6 to the A9 in 6s was a bit bigger - 36%, vs 26% for the A9 -> A10 result rumored in this article (single-core results). Still a big jump considering how fast the A9 was and how hard it is to get further CPU performance improvements these days.
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You math is off. The article suggets a 40% single core jump
 
Here are the real single-core numbers (geekbench 4):

check here: https://browser.primatelabs.com/ios-benchmarks

iPhone 5s - 1211
iPhone 6 - 1472
iPhone 6s - 2391
iPhone 7 (rumored in this article) - 3379


5s vs 6: 22% improvement
6 vs 6s: 62% improvement
6s vs 7: 41% improvement


Samsung for reference:

Note 4: 955
S5 Plus: 1009 (6%)
Note 5: 1304 (29%)
S7: 1809 (39%)
 
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Wowereit said:
You are calculating on basis of the newer processor, but normally it's done the other way around.
6 -> 6s 53% improvement
6s -> 7 36% improvement

(just used your scores, didn't check)
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Thanks, saw my mistake immediately after posting.
 
For all the things I hate about Apple recently (feature separation on phone models - GAG- and other stuff) their ARM team continues to be beyond top-notch, frankly astounding. They deserve serious credit for their chip design which continues to keep the iPhones as the fastest phone/computer that is always with you. They continue to innovate in this arena in a big way.
 
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