I cant wait for friday!!! I will finally be able to throw my DROID in the garbage I have had it for 2 years and at this points its not much more then a glorified paper weight. FRIDAY its been a long time coming!!
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iPhone 5 Benchmarks Appear in Geekbench Showing a Dual Core, 1GHz A6 CPU
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I gotta say, I'm way too excited to get mine since I have stuck with my slow 3GS after all this time and have not tried Facetime, Siri, 4G, 802.11n Wifi, better camera, Retina Display, geofenced reminders, gyroscope, better GPU so I can finally play some decent games, better battery life, Airplay Mirroring and all of the feature set of both iOS5 and iOS6 which the 3GS doesn't get.
Plus coming from a phone which has gotten between 260-290 score in Geekbench, this will be absolutely wonderful.
Plus coming from a phone which has gotten between 260-290 score in Geekbench, this will be absolutely wonderful.
Geekbench uses all the cores. That's why I suspect for mobile phones where we usually don't have heavily threaded apps the real world performance of the iPhone 5 will be very impressive. One exception I can think off the top of my head though might be iMovie encoding. That's something that could've been benefited more from the extra core. However opening and switching apps should be extremely fast.
Your patience means that your reward will be greater. It'll feel absolutely amazing when you switch to your feel
I actually don't own a GS3, but rather a 4S. But iPhone owners have always been such proponents of real world performance instead of these benchmarks, clock speeds, number of cores, etc. for let's see...oh wait, I think it's as long as the iPhone happens to lose in those categories
I'm glad you're laughing because I sometimes like to reiterate common arguments I see made in the forums for iPhones
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As fun as it is to bash phones...
.... has anyone actually searched the geekbench results for all Galaxy SIII phones? Just sayin, there's one result page for the iPhone5, the one we've been looking at. However, if you look at the results page for Galaxy S3, in nearly every instance that all 4 cores are running, the scores range between 1056-2059, averaging a score of 1740. That's not counting examples with frequencies at 1800, with 4-core usage scoring between 1385-2283; altogether giving an average 4-core score of 1782.
Full disclosure, there was at least one example of 2 exact same scores from the same user, score being 1829. Didn't look for others, because really, I shouldn't be doing all this work in the first place.
Yours truly, someone who has already preordered his iPhone 5, but is still interested in objectivity.
.... has anyone actually searched the geekbench results for all Galaxy SIII phones? Just sayin, there's one result page for the iPhone5, the one we've been looking at. However, if you look at the results page for Galaxy S3, in nearly every instance that all 4 cores are running, the scores range between 1056-2059, averaging a score of 1740. That's not counting examples with frequencies at 1800, with 4-core usage scoring between 1385-2283; altogether giving an average 4-core score of 1782.
Full disclosure, there was at least one example of 2 exact same scores from the same user, score being 1829. Didn't look for others, because really, I shouldn't be doing all this work in the first place.
Yours truly, someone who has already preordered his iPhone 5, but is still interested in objectivity.
Calm down. It's a phone for chrissake.
That, and it will take about 3 weeks before someone releases an Android phone that "beats" it.
I'm so excited. This iPhone 5 benchmark just punk the **** out of Samsung Galaxy S3 as Mark Cuban would say. (Only people who follow the NBA would get this joke)
There's no such thing as "objectivity" when you're trying to compare an Android phone and an iPhone through Geekbench because the test itself isn't objective. There are so many factors that affect it. All we need to know is that iPhone 4S had 800 Geekbench and the new one has 1600
iPhone the last to use LTE technology and will be the first phone claim by apple to gives you 8hr browsing. Is this to do with dual core and under the hood customising. If this claim is true then apple will even get more copy makers trying to find how they achieve this. Lol. Bring on 8hrs LTE browsing apple.
Apparently there are some fandroids on slashdot claiming even larger numbers for the S3 but those are either faked or from an overclocked model which probably has 0.5 hours of battery life and too hot to hold but some Android fans cannot seem to live this down so they have to come up with artificial numbers.
I agree, there are so many games I deleted to make room for new games on iPhone 4, that's why I go 32gb this time.
Geekbench scores aren't the be-all-end-all when comparing Android to iOS. I know the iPhone 5's CPU/GPU is faster according to Geekbench, but even if it wasn't, that would still not indicate that the new iPhone is a slower performer experience-wise.
iOS is a very sophisticated mobile OS (arguable the most advanced in the world) built from the ground up with root level multitouch implementation and top stack priority given to graphics. Android OS on the other hand is a blackberry clone that transitioned to be an iOS clone after the release of iPhone. Its graphics layer has lower priority with its multitouch calls grafted in as an afterthought, making it behave more like Windows than iOS.
So even if the Galaxy SIII had a faster processor than the iPhone 5 it would probably not operate as smoothly unless its CPU and especially GPU were much, much faster. Jellybean goes go a long way to address much of Android's latency, but it does so again by having the UI take over one or two entire cores (depending on the CPU), hence 4.1 being recommended on quad core devices (where two entire cores are devoted solely to compensate for Android's sub-par multitouch implementation).
To see the iPhone 5 score so high on Geekbench only means that it should exhibit a level of smoothness and speed several times that of an SIII. Perhaps as high as a factor of 10.
iOS is a very sophisticated mobile OS (arguable the most advanced in the world) built from the ground up with root level multitouch implementation and top stack priority given to graphics. Android OS on the other hand is a blackberry clone that transitioned to be an iOS clone after the release of iPhone. Its graphics layer has lower priority with its multitouch calls grafted in as an afterthought, making it behave more like Windows than iOS.
So even if the Galaxy SIII had a faster processor than the iPhone 5 it would probably not operate as smoothly unless its CPU and especially GPU were much, much faster. Jellybean goes go a long way to address much of Android's latency, but it does so again by having the UI take over one or two entire cores (depending on the CPU), hence 4.1 being recommended on quad core devices (where two entire cores are devoted solely to compensate for Android's sub-par multitouch implementation).
To see the iPhone 5 score so high on Geekbench only means that it should exhibit a level of smoothness and speed several times that of an SIII. Perhaps as high as a factor of 10.
I'm an Apple fan and I bought an iPhone 5, but even I can see how silly it is to think this will just beat out the Android. Comparing an unreleased phone to the Galaxy S III, which came out in May, is pretty ridiculous considering there will be a new droid to surpass both benchmarks far sooner than there will be a new iPhone. Apple only has one shot a year at this, and it barely beat a phone that is already months old, so it's pretty clear that it won't be able to stay ahead for very long, and then the Android will surpass it yet again in the benchmarks while we all wait for the iPhone 6. In the end, the Android will likely spend more time ahead because Apple's releases are so much more gapped.
I like the performance and think it's great in its own right, without it needing to decimate every other phone out there. As long as its zippy I could care less about a few points difference in benchmark tests.
I like the performance and think it's great in its own right, without it needing to decimate every other phone out there. As long as its zippy I could care less about a few points difference in benchmark tests.
My mom got an 8GB iPhone 4 then got the 4S when it came out with more capacity, 16GB, because the 8GB was too small for all of her pirated music. 8GB is too small for my apps, mobile playlists, and camera roll.
That shouldnt come as a shock with Jelly Bean and turning off a lot of services that would normally be running. Lets also not forget that you're running 1.4ghz vs 1.02 and 4 cores vs 2. With that in mind the A6 really looks pretty amazing.
Last but not least, with iOS, all of iOS and your apps actually use all of the A6 and are well optimized for multicore and hardware acceleration. With Android your apps are dumb (in the software coding sense). They are hardware agnostic and can't make use of more than one core. The java interpreter can, but not the apps themselves. The only thing you can do to help Android apps is to crank up the cpu clock frequency. This is why you see Android handsets with much higher clock speeds than iOS devices.
Here's another one for the non believers. This is what happens when you want to take benchmarks to mean something. Especially benchmarks on a device that hasn't even been released yet. Fan kiddies always quick to believe the "breaking news" when it works in their favor. And this one is still on ICS and a dual core. Good night kiddies. Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite.
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The OP should change the his/her post. It's misleading and starts a pissing contest.
Other fanbois that jumped on this thread claiming victory... you just make the apple community look bad.
Other fanbois that jumped on this thread claiming victory... you just make the apple community look bad.
A nice article about the whole numbers race
If Samsung continues with the screen and memory size and CPU clock speeds race, they will very soon and up with tablets instead of phones. Reminds me the Megapixel war with the photo cameras.
Here a nice article about it: Dammage control with a phablet.
If Samsung continues with the screen and memory size and CPU clock speeds race, they will very soon and up with tablets instead of phones. Reminds me the Megapixel war with the photo cameras.
Here a nice article about it: Dammage control with a phablet.
The whole article is dodgy because of how these benchmarks can vary. Even if they are the "same" (if you can compare them so directly), the quad-core processor of the S3 will not be used as effectively as the dual-core processor of the iPhone 5. Anyway, it's a moot point. The processor speeds are not important on a phone.
Meh, still running at 400mhz advantage, and somehow I doubt its stock configuration/services. And again, that performance is only good for the Linux OS itself not the apps. Only lovin the apps get is that 1.4ghz clock.
Java should not be used for apps on a mobile phone. It's really inefficient and just drives up costs because faster processors and more RAM is needed. Look, an old iPhone is $0 subsidized, and it's powerful enough for many users. Someone should make a very efficient (software-wise), powerless, inexpensive smartphone.
Biggest thing for me is that the handset works great. I personally don't care what the benchmark says other than comparing it to the last iPhone (not Android). The fact that the 4S and iPad 3 performed excellent already means this new A6 is going to quite spectacular for future iPhone/iPad users. Based on the benchmarks we are talking about 2-3x performance increase over A5 based kit.... with Apple claiming ~2x in real world gains. Thats nothing but great news.
Everyone else is running great processors as well, but there is a big difference between running Apps in native machine language and running them completely unoptimized through an interpreter (Android). Java apps is basically the one and only reason I would never own an Android product.
Everyone else is running great processors as well, but there is a big difference between running Apps in native machine language and running them completely unoptimized through an interpreter (Android). Java apps is basically the one and only reason I would never own an Android product.