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iPhone 5 Benchmarks Appear in Geekbench Showing a Dual Core, 1GHz A6 CPU
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Big picture: if the OS & apps are quick and responsive all the time (split second loading) and battery life is as good as advertised, will the common user care about specs?
I'd be happy if taking an HDR picture wouldn't take 1-2 secs like on my 4. =\
I'd be happy if taking an HDR picture wouldn't take 1-2 secs like on my 4. =\
Agreed, Tegra is garbage. It always benchmarks low on the list. You'd think NVIDIA would try to fix this, but I guess not.
There is a crap load of info over on Anandtech so go read up some more. Oh and check the post about the Exynos 5 1.7ghz dual core A15 CPU.
Apples CPU team is a beast! They manage to squeeze greater performance from a 1020 MHz dual core than the Nexus 7 running a quad core @ 1300 Mhz.
Beast!
Source: The iPhone 5's A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core Instead
Beast!
Source: The iPhone 5's A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core Instead
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"The Assimilation is Really Continuing"!
Kudos to Apples CPU Engineering Team.
Now, "Back To Litigation"!!!!!!
Kudos to Apples CPU Engineering Team.
Now, "Back To Litigation"!!!!!!
Wow, what a surprise, a phone that is about to be released has a slightly better performance than the S3...
Reactions here are amusing.
Come on now. Who isn't amazed that a new phone is 2.5% faster than a 4 month old phone.
The A6 was manufactured by Sameung, but designed by Apple. Samsung can't use it in their own devices.
I believe GB's scores are consensus, not cherry picked. If 1000 people run the test, there are sure to be significant differences.
For example, you know there are thousands of android users that waste months and months of time flashing different ROM's and kernals to get 1 extra point in GB to brag about, while stock owners will run as is, so the scores will vary widely.
lol.. see what happens when people have premature-ejaculation? smh.
seriously, these pissing contests has got to go.
Blown away? We're talking about a questionable 2,5% performance advantage, and there is already proof that some tests carried out on the S3 had a higher scores than the one in the table.
Don't laugh too much. CDMA came out at the same time 2G GSM did, and offered lots of advantages at the time, including not suffering from that annoying buzz, and higher capacity. It was also easier for networks to upgrade from 2G CDMA to 3G CDMA2000 than it was from 2G GSM to 3GSM (UMTS).
Actually, newer versions of CDMA2000 can handle simultaneous voice and data, but our carriers never implemented it as LTE was just around the corner.
Who is better is subjective and honestly the benchmarks are simply one indicator. If you believe that android is better than good for you but that is also just an opinion.
I saw someone else make this type of comment. Frankly, some people don't grasp this concept.
I think it's safe to say Apple really knows what they are doing - in terms of engineering to say the least. Based on the hands on videos I've seen, it is quite noticable how fast the iPhone 5 is. Can't wait for the 21st
Actually, every Android fanboy foams at the mouth and runs and gets ky jelly and kleenex every time a new Android phone outs and brags about the specs and how it is faster than the iPhone 4S.