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

[Formul]

Wrong. It has fast app switching. 2 very different things.

Just because it saves the app state to the memory does not mean you are multitasking.

iOS allows specific tasks of the apps to run in the background ... like finishing stuff, downloading, playing music and other things that make sense

also 1GHz dual core beating 1.4GHz quad core, wow

 

[machestnut]

Now that's Fast, have a feeling we will be seeing alot of these reports after Friday

 

[irDigital0l]

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.

LTE isn't a world phone though...

If it was world there wouldn't be AT&T and a Verizon version, it'll just be one.

 

[Rennir]

Benchmarks, clock speeds, and specs are irrelevant. The only thing that matters is real world performance. And guys lets stop comparing a product that's not even out yet to something that has been released for a few months.

 

[50548]

An Apple fan forum only for people who value all Apple products over all competitors? What about Mac users who use Android?

Sorry, but it's just going to be funny when Samsung releases something faster than the iPhone 5. I wouldn't care anyway. None of this stuff matters to user experience.

True Mac users do NOT use Android nor develop for it.

 

[striker33]

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..

Unfortunately you have no chance of finding sanity on these boards anymore so soon after a product launch.

Far too many clowns moaning that the latest iDevice doesnt wipe their ass for them.

 

[slffl]

Nice! Me Likey!!

 

[chrismarle]

This is for raw processing power. I believe you can compare the two. Computers from 2 years ago still get about twice the score.

Here is my nexus 7 overclocked:
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/994100

2143

How's your 10 minutes battery life?

 

[pandamonia]

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.

It's running at stock 1.4ghz. I can't over clock this one yet as I'm running stock kernel. Also you need to understand comparing clock speeds on different cores is pointless

 

[firewood]

Last time I checked iOS does not have "real" multitasking...

Apple's own apps and processes run perfectly fine doing "real" multitasking in the background. iOS is a unix system. They just don't let App store apps from random developers waste the users battery life by doing the same, except in a few select circumstances where that has shown to clearly benefit the typical user.

 

[pandamonia]

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.

Same here 1799

 

[Bezetos]

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.

Oh boy. iPhone 5 has similar performance to S3, and suddenly S3 is crappy.

 

[50548]

HAHA

The yet-to-be-released iPhone has a mere 41 points more in the benchmark than the S3, a difference that nobody will be able to notice, but Samsung is DEAD.

Your logic is flawless.

Yeah, absolutely. Until yesterday Android/Samsung fantards were proclaiming the iPhone 5 DEAD because it didn't have four cores. In other words, we are talking here about the megahertz myth revisited.

AGAIN: true, principled Apple users have iPhones. Android is for those who don't value innovation - or quality, for that matter.

You come here to praise Samsung? There are much better venues for that than MR.

 

[Demonofelru]

True Mac users do NOT use Android nor develop for it.

I'm a true Mac user and I enjoy plenty of other OSes.

 

[makingdots]

Benchmarks, clock speeds, and specs are irrelevant. The only thing that matters is real world performance.

Real world performance. You mean there are games and apps that juices your beloved Galaxy S3?

And guys lets stop comparing a product that's not even out yet to something that has been released for a few months.

LOL. S3 was this year's version. Tell them to release S4 next year same day as iPhone (7th-gen)

 

[Bezetos]

Yeah, absolutely. Until yesterday Android/Samsung fantards were proclaiming the iPhone 5 DEAD because it didn't have four cores. In other words, we are talking here about the megahertz myth revisited.

AGAIN: true, principled Apple users have iPhones. Android is for those who don't value innovation - or quality, for that matter.

You come here to praise Samsung? There are much better venues for that than MR.

1. I think that saying that iPhone is dead because it hasn't got four cores is stupid.

2. Saying that Android fans do not value innovation is juvenile and stupid.

3. Where in my post did I pray Samsung?

 

[MacN3wb]

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/731465

samsung GT-I9300 Geekbench Score 1945

 

[pandamonia]

Yeah, absolutely. Until yesterday Android/Samsung fantards were proclaiming the iPhone 5 DEAD because it didn't have four cores. In other words, we are talking here about the megahertz myth revisited.

AGAIN: true, principled Apple users have iPhones. Android is for those who don't value innovation - or quality, for that matter.

You come here to praise Samsung? There are much better venues for that than MR.

The only reason not to come here is because of people like you.

 

[blackcrayon]

Last time I checked iOS does not have "real" multitasking, as in you can't just run a process in the background, unless it's a response to GPS changes, playing music or responding to notifications.

You can run many kinds of processes in the background with the task completion API. They only have 10 minutes (unless iOS 6 changed that) to run though. So it's definitely limited, but it's still "real" even by your definition. And of course the OS itself is running many processes all of the time in the background just like Mac OS X, etc. Also- you forgot that VOIP apps can continue to run and answer calls in the background.

 

[nick_elt]

Just to clarify - the Samsung Galaxy S3 is available in two configurations:

1GB RAM - quad core (sold outside the US)
2GB RAM - dual core (sold only in the US)

From the end of this month in certain markets the international lte model will be quad core 2gb the gt i9305

 

[chris200x9]

Does anyone else find this whole thread very hypocritical?

Windows user "you can get a computer with better specs and benchmarks better cheaper. Macs are teh sux!"

Mac user: "It's not all about the specs or benchmarks, duh!"

now here:

mac user "the iphone benchmarks better, android / vender of choice is teh sux!"

it's also funny an iphone costs a hell of a lot more, I'd expect it to be *better*

 

[Hunabku]

Oh boy. iPhone 5 has similar performance to S3, and suddenly S3 is crappy.

Does the benchmark referenced in this article factor in GPU performance?

Hey, don't let anyone tell you that an S3 is crappy for you.

 

[Bezetos]

Apple's own apps and processes run perfectly fine doing "real" multitasking in the background. iOS is a unix system. They just don't let App store apps from random developers waste the users battery life by doing the same, except in a few select circumstances where that has shown to clearly benefit the typical user.

We have also proof that having "real" multitasking does not heavily affect battery life. Also Android has a richer "subscriber" mechanism, at least before iOS 6 (not sure if it got improved there).

 

[Peace]

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/731465

samsung GT-I9300 Geekbench Score 1945

You might want to change that considering the real specs are different.

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9300_galaxy_s_iii-4238.php

 

[lucas107]

wow there is a lot of misinformed people here. there is no such thing as an s3 with a quad core and 2gb's of ram. that phone does not exist so stop saying it does. most of the comments in this thread are from apple fanboys. i say this because they only care that the number is higher then the very large user base avg of the s3. they dont seem to see that benchmark numbers dont mean a damn and can change drastically from boot to boot. why not just appreciate that the iphone 5 scored a very good score for being a dual core running at 1ghz and not worry about it being higher then the avg of the s3's. for the record someone could take an s3 and blow that iphone score out of the water but then the comments would be but yeah they had to overclock and change kernals and blah blah just confirming my statement of benchmarks really dont say much at all.