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iPhone 5 Benchmarks Appear in Geekbench Showing a Dual Core, 1GHz A6 CPU

Bezetos said:
But it is all about personal preference, there are many things that depend on your taste.
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Don't get why iPhone users always need to defend their phone against the SIII or Android users try to claim they have the better phone.

I feel no personal victory because I like the iPhone or feel defeated or get jealous if there is another phone out there which is "allegedly" better than the iPhone.

Better as in what?

If you have an iPhone and like it, why bother defending it! It is the BEST for you.

If you have an Android phone, why bother to knock the iphone, if it does all of what you want and is BEST for you.

The smartphone world is full of choices.

Get the facts and buy what is BEST for you!
 
wikus said:
You were warned several times over for pages on end about it. You have absolutely no reason to complain about the actions taken about your spamming.
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but people like it, it got 32 votes even it's on page 13, oh well
 
Wow, this is really great. I actually thought the S3 would still be faster. Especially considering the Galaxy S3 has 50% more space to fill. Really shows great engineering by Apple here.

makingdots said:
Thought you'll be considerate. People did like it, it got 32 votes even it's on page 13.
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God, also this. This really shows me that I grew up in a different internet than it is now. Now it's all about Facebook and Likes and "SHARE DIS I CRI EVERTIM". I'm probably overly nostalgic but "back in my days" we had culture. And spamming was not part of this.
 
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wikus said:
Its not hard for iPhone to score nicely when iOS is such a primitive mobile OS. Add the fact that it doesnt have multitasking and theres no reason for it to score low.
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iOS does have multitasking!
 
This thread should be your daily reminder that...

1) The public is stupid, and will eat any marketing message
2) Clock speed and core count means nothing over custom improvements, but benchmarks also matter little to real world performance with daily tasks
3) People are far too personally invested in either platform
 
el3ktro said:
No, Objective-C does not run "on top of a virtual machine".
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Objective-C runs on a machine. But remember all that whining and complaining about the dictatorial Apple insisting on Objective-C, that language NOBODY uses? 700,000 apps. Somebody is actually using it!

But also, even for one of the alternate worlds Apple does allow, HTML5, just notice the difference between the old Facebook and the new one. And did anybody use the NBC Olympics app? I thought, yippee! But then it became clear that it was written in some pretend language, I'm sure for compatibility. Worked TERRIBLY.
 
wikus said:
I hate to rain on your parade, but the Nexus 7 mentioned in that comment is not a phone, its a Tablet.
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Wow. I never would have guessed given the title, the posts by myself in there, as well as that shiny URL I posted earlier.

Oh and if you have a sarcasm meter handy, now would be a good time to test it.
 
pandamonia said:
Looks like I just wooped the 5 with my S3 with 1800 in the same bench without any tricks. Just running jelly bean. :)

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How much did you overclock it? The OS running on the phone doesnt have any affect on the tests. I am guessing you overclocked it to 1.6-1.8 GHz, however, the fact that the iPhone 5 is 600Mhz slower and less 2 cores, and still breaks 1600 shows how crappy your S3 is.
 
All things considered the S3 is a piece of trash compared to the iPhone 5. If the iPhone was as large as the S3 it would obliterate it.
 
jhende7 said:
Yet as the Macbook air will prove over and over, people care way more about aesthetics and a nice slim package then all the junk that you just mentioned.

Memory card port? I suppose they should have also added a physical keyboard, cd tray and floppy disc port lol.

Memory Card....lol
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Yeah seriously. I like his use of the word "skimping." The phone will be faster than any Android phone in real-life use for the typical user for a long time, but they skimped. Yeah... I prefer my 4 to the S3, so when my 5 shows up on Friday... I can't wait. The phone is also stunning, as opposed to an ugly, too big to use in one hand, behemoth S3. It really just comes down to what OS you like more and how into aesthetics you are. The 5 is clearly the best looking phone ever made, and I far prefer the iOS experience. I just will never quite understand how anyone could think this phone isn't gorgeous, or how a thicker, giant, plastic phone is.
 
What I'm finding that I really like about apple is when I get the iPhone 5 it will be the best iPhone, there won't be a newer faster iPhone next month. Like my iPad it's the latest there isn't a better faster one (yet). Android you wait two years to get the latest android device. As soon as you buy it there is a better faster one, your always behind. That and google will come along with a new OS that your device might see in 8 months. Leaving all that behind.
 
Thunderhawks said:
Don't get why iPhone users always need to defend their phone against the SIII or Android users try to claim they have the better phone.

I feel no personal victory because I like the iPhone or feel defeated or get jealous if there is another phone out there which is "allegedly" better than the iPhone.

Better as in what?

If you have an iPhone and like it, why bother defending it! It is the BEST for you.

If you have an Android phone, why bother to knock the iphone, if it does all of what you want and is BEST for you.

The smartphone world is full of choices.

Get the facts and buy what is BEST for you!
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Chill sir.. i know what ur tryin to say is right...but we are human...its always been fun for us to show off our toys...this is the fun part...no one is gettin hurt here..just some healthy discussion.
 
unlinked said:
Come on now. Who isn't amazed that a new phone is 2.5% faster than a 4 month old phone.
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That tiny percentage difference won't be noticeable to a normal user running typical apps. Overclocked androphones might even run another tiny bit faster (and hotter).

What will be noticeable is getting this performance from an iPhone 5 using only half the cores at a third lower clock speed, which will likely allow Apple's device to give the user a much longer battery life for the same weight and size mobile.

pragmatous said:
As a developer in training I assure you that nothing iOS runs is on any virtual machine and there is no garbage collection. The os iOS is a lot smarter than android.
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Javascript in an iOS UIWebView runs in an interpreter with garbage collection. Some developers use it (and some change their mind... cough-f*c*b**k). Method calls through the Objective C runtime are slower than native C calls, but an iOS developer can choose to code in C for performance critical stuff, since ANSI C is a legal subset of Objective C.

pandamonia said:
Sorry but next gen Arm A15 is here already and at 1.7ghz its going to blow the A6 out of the water.
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There are plenty of CPUs that can blow the A6 out of the water. Most of them require a battery 2X to 10X larger, all the way up to a small power substation. IBM and Fujitsu have some 5GHz+ 8+ core CPU chips out. Nobody knows how big a battery an A15 will require to get a user through a typical day.
 
o0jelly0o said:
The really funny thing is that based on this benchmark all of the incredibly ignorant Andriod fans are saying 'WHAA it came out after the Galaxy S3', I guess they don't realize Apple releases (1) phone a year, and Andriod has about a million coming out a year. OBVIOUSLY Andriod should generally have the higher powered chips, you complete IDIOTS. So yes, there will soon be a more powerful Android device, it means nothing when you look at how frequently they are released compared to Apple's phones.
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People don't realize Samsung is always releasing new phones because they are all generally the same huge ugly plastic mess of a copy of the original iPhone.. Don't get me wrong, if Apple didn't exist, I'd own an S3. But wait, if Apple didn't exist, then Samsung couldn't have copied Apple and we'd probably all still have Blackberries. Poor Blackberry.
 
SgtPepper12 said:
Wow, this is really great. I actually thought the S3 would still be faster. Especially considering the Galaxy S3 has 50% more space to fill. Really shows great engineering by Apple here.
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1. It's THEIR chip, for the first time, licensed from the usual, of course. But it's not any of the prefab chips the others use.

2. I'm still pretty convinced that the main reason Samsung went BIG was to be able to put in a bigger battery to make you forget the power consumption of LTE.

3. Apple did its usual plan: wait until a technology is ready, in this case the one chip, several radios for an LTE world phone, with no compromise about size or battery life.

Fewer cores, chip and software customized to each other, equals SPEED without SIZE or bad battery life.

If you like a 5" phone in your pocket, of course, then Samsung's for you.
 
Why is Macrumors forums becoming a battleground like the BGR comments? I come here because I like to see intelligent discussions regarding apple, not to watch ios vs android pissing contests.. Disappointed by a lot of the members..
 
Guys I am not trying to troll you or anything, but I was curious about these benchmarks and ran geakbench 2.0 on my fathers S3. It scored 1800 marks running stock with no enhancements what so ever. Its a standard exynos S3 with 1GB of ram.

I can post proof if you guys want me to, those benchmark averages seem kinda off.
 
From what I remeber reading somewhere in anandtech - the GPU in the 4S is faster than the GPU in the SIII. That means the GPU in the iPhone 5 is more than twice as fast as the GPU in the SIII?

If that's true, then the 5 is going to toast the SIII as a gaming device. Yes the IPhone's smaller screen is a real drawback for gaming but at least AirPlay will allow the graphics to shine on the big screen.

Anyway, another seldom mentioned elephant in the room is the iPad mini. If she gets a pumped up version of the A6 with even greater graphics performance, then other tablets will come no where close to that level of console quality gaming experience - especially considering how optimized ios apps are for speed on A series chips
 
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