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iOS 7 much smoother on iPhone 5S due to 64 bit processing

they are trying to make us feel old about our "iphone 5"s. nothing more. it's a new phone and that's it.
 
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balcis said:
they are trying to make us feel old about our "iphone 5"s. nothing more. it's a new phone and that's it.
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Exactly. While 64bit would be awesome and will give Apple an even further edge over the competition, I'll stick with the 5 until the 6 comes out.
 
Chazz08 said:
Exactly. While 64bit would be awesome and will give Apple an even further edge over the competition, I'll stick with the 5 until the 6 comes out.
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Agreed, I usually get new phones, not sure if it's age or I'm just steering to see sense, but I too am going to wait for the iPhone 6.
 
batting1000 said:
Isn't there already a news thread about this
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There's a new thread about the possibility of a 64bit processor and it being 31% faster, there isn't one about whether it would make iOS 7 smoother. I'd say of course it would. Thanks for your great contribution to the discussion though!
 
It's a bunch of BS since iOS 7 beta 6 animations ran very smooth on my 4S. Or else they think the animation timing will just be 31% faster. Hahahahaha
 
64bit != smoother or faster. Especially on a phone with limited RAM. Main advantage of 64bit is the ability to address more than 4GB RAM. Apple is nowhere near that limit.

The main reason to go 64bit is to proof the future.
 
iPhone 5S will run iOS 7 more smoothly because Apple has a habit of gimping previous gen iOS devices to make the hardware appear dated.
 
zbarvian said:
Exactly. I sold my iPad 2 when I picked up the Mini, and though they pack the same internals, the Mini felt noticeably peppier.
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Surely eventually they're going to realise how obvious it is though :\ the iPhone 5 is blazing fast on iOS 6, if it's suddenly sluggish on iOS 7 ill be really annoyed :p
 
matttye said:
Surely eventually they're going to realise how obvious it is though :\ the iPhone 5 is blazing fast on iOS 6, if it's suddenly sluggish on iOS 7 ill be really annoyed :p
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I'm running beta 6 on my 5 and the animations are lethargic but it's mostly smooth. Rotation happens at like 6 fps, unfortunately. On the 4 it's not even worth using.
 
zbarvian said:
I'm running beta 6 on my 5 and the animations are lethargic but it's mostly smooth. Rotation happens at like 6 fps, unfortunately. On the 4 it's not even worth using.
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Hm, on my i5, even rotation is smooth. The ipad 4 is another case though - jerky and generally glitchy.
 
stooovie said:
64bit != smoother or faster. Especially on a phone with limited RAM. Main advantage of 64bit is the ability to address more than 4GB RAM. Apple is nowhere near that limit.

The main reason to go 64bit is to proof the future.
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locoboi187 said:
Isn't 64bit overkill? The RAM won't certainly make use of it below 4gb.
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It's not about the addressing 4GB of RAM. If Apple is using/testing 64-bit CPUs, that means they're likely customizing their own ARMv8 chips, which has several major changes to what the current ARMv7 chips are doing.

Simplified instruction set, additional registers, more specialized registers for some HW acceleration (like encryption) and so on can lead to much quicker CPUs at lower power consumption rate.

Not to mention, it can also have a faster interconnection bus, so that processing between CPU/GPU can be done quicker as well.

64-bit ARMv8 is not the same thing as ARMv7 with an additional 64-bit instruction set, it is far more than that.
 
shenfrey said:
Agreed, I usually get new phones, not sure if it's age or I'm just steering to see sense, but I too am going to wait for the iPhone 6.
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Meh... I am not upgrading until my iPhone 4S 3 year contract runs out on 2015. By the time. It will be iPhone 6S.... LOL

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ajay96 said:
It comes to the point where I don't need anything smother than it already is. My phone runs fine so why upgrade?
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Because Apple wants you upgrade. By the way, which phone are you using. I think by the time my contract runs out on 2015, my phone will not even run any new apps. I am highly doubt iPhone 4S will get iOS 9, I want to, but not likely. Heck, it might not even get iOS 8
 
MikhailT said:
It's not about the addressing 4GB of RAM. If Apple is using/testing 64-bit CPUs, that means they're likely customizing their own ARMv8 chips, which has several major changes to what the current ARMv7 chips are doing.

Simplified instruction set, additional registers, more specialized registers for some HW acceleration (like encryption) and so on can lead to much quicker CPUs at lower power consumption rate.

Not to mention, it can also have a faster interconnection bus, so that processing between CPU/GPU can be done quicker as well.

64-bit ARMv8 is not the same thing as ARMv7 with an additional 64-bit instruction set, it is far more than that.
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And that's likely the bigger piece of information behind it all.
 
Nanasaki said:
Meh... I am not upgrading until my iPhone 4S 3 year contract runs out on 2015. By the time. It will be iPhone 6S.... LOL

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Because Apple wants you upgrade. By the way, which phone are you using. I think by the time my contract runs out on 2015, my phone will not even run any new apps. I am highly doubt iPhone 4S will get iOS 9, I want to, but not likely. Heck, it might not even get iOS 8
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I'm currently on a 4S. I doubt it will get iOS 8 too but runs fine as of now.
 
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