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

KnightWRX said:
If this is what Cortex A15 brings, 2013 is going to be a very interesting year for Smartphones. We're reaching the point where the Motorola Atrix concept might be more than just a gimmick and might just become a true reality.

iPhone that docks into a laptop shell and becomes a full OS X system ? Docks into your TV to serve as an Apple TV ?

I can't wait until I have 1 and only 1 computing device that fits into my pocket, yet can be used on my desk to perform all my tasks while connected to a keyboard/mouse/monitor or then transform into a HTPC type device for my Home Theater, etc..
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I can totally see the iPhone becoming an Apple TV at some point. Doesn't it already have the ability to easily do that? You need some free space, 8GB if it's to be the same amount as the Apple TV, but an SD card or just more internal storage in the near future can solve that.
 
Anonemous said:
This news article is going to make iOS users look worse in the long run, after there are more than just 1 iPhone 5 test and falls back down to ~1000 to 1200s due to law of averages.

It's just next week.

I would hold my tongue before touting and provoking android/sgs3 users. It's gonna come back and haunt us.
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Well if you are gonna introduce the law of averages then you can also downgrade the s3 benchmark to the 3 digits ;)

It's not like we all don't realise Samsung are a corrupt company too.
 
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Samsung Galaxy S3 scores 1,789 in Geekbench 2 (it's the fastest smartphone yet): http://kaniskc.co.cc/post/25956766027/samsung-galaxy-s3-geekbench-review …

Geekbench results for SGS III depends on the number of services running:

Wifi-ON, Screen Rotation-ON, Power Saving-OFF, Notifications-ON, All other features-ON - Geekbench score 1589

All features-ON except WiFi, Screen Rotation, Notifications, and Power Saving - Geekbench score 1789

SGS III with some features off still outperforming iPhone 5.
Brute power of 4 cores is amazing.
 
Nicky G said:
I'll be "blown away" if this isn't what the bulk of everyday computing looks like for most people in the next 3-5 years. ;)

Seriously though, I think Apple, Samsung, Google, Microsoft, and all the players know that the vision you describe is dead-on, and the device you have in your pocket all day long will probably end up becoming most people's ONLY device. Game console, "desktop" computer, and mobile device, probably also front-end to home entertainment system. This is why the battle for the mobile space is such a high stakes game -- it's really the battle for the future of mass market computing in general.
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The TI OMAP 5 demo is impressive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEOKZJ1fCjM

They also posted a 2 core A9 vs 4 core A9 benchmark. Another impressive benchmark. The future can't come fast enough.
 
duffman9000 said:
The only interesting features I would miss are NFC and wireless charging. Neither are deal breakers. As for removable storage... hahahaha...
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You don't like removeable storage, which gives you the ability to instantly upgrade your storage capacity instead of buying a more expensive iPhone with more flash memory? This is the ONLY feature I care about that Android phones have and iPhones lack. Besides having more storage for less money, you could get screwed if you bought a low-capacity iPhone then later realized that you need more storage.
 
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Bezetos said:
I can guarantee you that it will be highly probable that any smartphone released after the iPhone 5 will be faster. Already phones released 3-4 months ago are only marginally slower than the iPhone 5.
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"guarantee" ≠ "highly probable"
 
faroZ06 said:
By "this", I mean the hardware performance. The bench is supposed to be a realistic test of it.
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Speaking of realism:
Although Geekbench is cross platform, I wouldn't recommend using this data to do anything other than compare iOS devices. I've looked at using Geekbench to compare iOS to Android in the past and I've sometimes seen odd results.
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Source
 
BRLawyer said:
True Mac users do NOT use Android nor develop for it.
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See now, I was actually going to stay out of this fight and just read the posts and chuckle silently to myself about the ignorance of most. However YOU sir are the reason that Apple users are called sheep and I hate that you make me look bad. True Mac users are NOT so ignorant as to make a statement like yours or worse, actually believe it.
 
itpromike said:
See now, I was actually going to stay out of this fight and just read the posts and chuckle silently to myself about the ignorance of most. However YOU sir are the reason that Apple users are called sheep and I hate that you make me look bad. True Mac users are NOT so ignorant as to make a statement like yours or worse, actually believe it.
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100% agree. This is what I've been saying all along about Apple users. I love my iphone as much as the next guy, but damn it's statements like those that make me understand why there's so much hate for this company. It's a cult much of the time.
 
turtlez said:
lol couldn't agree more. Usually the average age is the pimple faced teen when it comes to bagging Apple. Keyboard warriors who sit on FPS games all night (sleep during day) and think they are a spec op marine in real life.
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I applied to the army with my BF3 kdr on PS3, and I got rejected. How was that possible?
 
lilo777 said:
Obliterated? With one benchmark score higher by 2%? While at the same time offering 2x RAM, NFC, simultaneous voice and data, wireless charging, higher screen resolution, higher memory capacity. It's pretty clear that SGS3 is a superior phone.
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Hmm, a dual core processor running at just over 1GHz just smoked a quad core processor runng at 1.5GHz. HAHAHAHA! Maybe that should put that fact on their attack ad chart. Oh let's see the SGIII is a thicker, heavier phone with a slower quad core processor and a inferior GPU to the iPhone 5. Oh I can see how you would call the SGIII a superior phone. Oh please do try to justify your FUD some more.
 
BRLawyer said:
True Mac users do NOT use Android nor develop for it.
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So, you're saying those people are fake Mac users? They only pretend to use Macs, but they're really running a version of Linux that looks a lot like Mac OS? We gotta hunt those witches down!
 
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lilo777 said:
Thinner and lighter has nothing to do with CPU (and A6) is quite a big chip. It has everything to do with skimping on baseband chips (one compared totwo in Android phones), RAM, NFC chip, battery size, wireless charging and memory card/port.
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Skimping? Jeez, the spin Fandroids put on this stuff is amazing.
 
There are two various Galaxy SIII's that I know about the US version only has 2-cores but gets 2GB and the International version has 4-cores but 1GB.

There is no reason to argue about benchmark scores until 1000s of people have them and can test it themselves.

Galaxy SIII (2-core / 2GB) - 1551

One thing I did notice, some of the 4-core versions get up to 2059 on geekbench, which does seem sufficient and could have probably been higher if the 4-core version would have 2GB instead of 1GB.

Time will tell what the difference will be like when Samsung and others use the A-15 spec chipset.

So comparing a 4-core ARMv7 over a 2-core A6 (supposedly custom chip) is like "apples to oranges". It be like comparing 16GB DDR to 8GB DDR3 (bad example but only one I could think of). So what I am getting at is, different tech gives you different results. So both sides should stop arguing and actually think.
 
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fertilized-egg said:
Not really. For most mobile usage, if they could get higher performing dual cores, it'd probably be much better. Samsung themselves have announced a dual core A15 chip that'll blow away quad core A9 chips.
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I don't see any use for >2 cores on a mobile phone, especially not an iOS device. I have an 8-core Mac, and even that's more cores than I can typically use.
 
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Taz Mangus said:
Hmm, a dual core processor running at just over 1GHz just smoked a quad core processor runng at 1.5GHz. HAHAHAHA! Maybe that should put that fact on their attack ad chart. Oh let's see the SGIII is a thicker, heavier phone with a slower quad core processor and a inferior GPU to the iPhone 5. Oh I can see how you would call the SGIII a superior phone. Oh please do try to justify your FUD some more.
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Did you miss the memo where mhz are starting to become irrelevant with different architectures? Also, excuse me, but aren't the android "fans" the ones obsessed with specs? And apple is abot software and the experience? Or is it like that only when it suits you?
 
Purant said:
Did you miss the memo where mhz are starting to become irrelevant with different architectures? Also, excuse me, but aren't the android "fans" the ones obsessed with specs? And apple is abot software and the experience? Or is it like that only when it suits you?
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Predicted reply: Well, F4ndr!0d$ always care about specs, so now we're just doing what they do. What, people here want to sink to that level?
 
Purant said:
Did you miss the memo where mhz are starting to become irrelevant with different architectures? Also, excuse me, but aren't the android "fans" the ones obsessed with specs? And apple is abot software and the experience? Or is it like that only when it suits you?
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Oh I really could care less about specs as user experience is all that matters to me. Felt a little like spinning it back on the Fandroid that trolls this forum to stir up trouble.
 
Purant said:
Did you miss the memo where mhz are starting to become irrelevant with different architectures? Also, excuse me, but aren't the android "fans" the ones obsessed with specs? And apple is abot software and the experience? Or is it like that only when it suits you?
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Android fan is still stuck on the notion that using android must surely make you smarter than everyone else. It's the worst aspect of owning an Android device, and yes I own one.

For Android user calling anyone sheep I refer them to Gingerpoo. LaLaLaLaLa.. it didn't happen!
 
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