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

Great, now I can smoothly run a Minecraft server on my iPhone once they update the Java from 1.5 to 1.7 on it! I've always wanted to do that kind of power-hungry stuff on my iPhone.
 
leathers123 said:
Hows does this compare to the almighty S3?:rolleyes:
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The quad-core 1.5 GHz Exynos 4142 chip in the Galaxy S III reaches a score of 1560. The new dual-core A6 chip reaches a score of 1601.

So this A5 chip is faster than the chip found in the Galaxy S III.
 
So wait a second. The iPhone 5 is the thinnest, lightest, and fastest smart phone on the market with the largest App store?

Srsly guys this phone was a disappointment like everyone said it was.
 
lewis82 said:
Of course the iPhone is faster. Android apps are Java. Java is always slower than native code (and while some of you will argue that Objective-C runs on top of a virtual machine, it is much closer to native code than Java).
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Show me someone who says that Objective-C runs in a virtual machine, and I will slap him in the face and tell him to get it together.

Just kidding, I'm not so passionate about a phone. But seriously, it's completely native.
 
pgiguere1 said:
Damn, the iPhone 5 will officially be the fastest smartphone out there.

And that's just theoretical performance. In practice the resource-efficiency of iOS will make this phone even more of a beast.

I'm impressed. :cool:
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iOS can be as resource-efficient as it wants, it is THE reason for me and millions of other users not to buy an iDevice.
 
wilycoder said:
Why are you so emotional? Are you a child?

Isn't this forum called macrumors? Will you be losing sleep tonight knowing that I build Android apps on my macbook air? Did that just BLOW YOUR FRICKING MIND MAN.....

Now, if everyone settled down a bit you would realize that the A6 is better than the Exynos because the A6 has been released almost 5 months after the Exynos found in the international S3.

And in a few more months, there will be a faster Samsung chip than the A6.

Really bizarre how people start to foam at the mouth about this stuff...
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Yeah, does anyone here realize that the iPhone 5 is newer than the S3? It hasn't even been released yet. If the benchmark was showing a faster Samsung phone that is newer than the 4S, you'd all go apes***.
 
TheOrioles33 said:
And all those people who keep saying Apple is playing catch-up can SHUT - UP! :)
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The negligible speed difference does not magically turn the iPhone 5 into an innovative, visionary device. It still is a catch-up device that only brings minor improvements to iPhone customers.
 
palmerc2 said:
Soooo how do these stack up to computers from about 5 years ago? They can't be that far apart right? Is there a way to compare the 2 platforms?
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I was thinking the same: Can you directly compare an iOS Geekbench score to an OSX Geekbench score the same way you compare iOS with Android? If so, those 16xx numbers are even more impressive! In a few years they will be on par with the first generation MacPro's... :eek:
 
Samsung Galaxy S III
Samsung Exynos 4412 1400 MHz (4 cores) 1560

iPhone 5 1601 :):apple:
 
the day a geekbench figure matters in day to day use... that's the day i'll probably buy something that wont be what i want or need.
 
diddl14 said:
Objective-C runs on top of a virtual machine???

Whoever makes/made that claim clearly has no freaking clue what he/she is talking about.
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faroZ06 said:
Show me someone who says that Objective-C runs in a virtual machine, and I will slap him in the face and tell him to get it together.

Just kidding, I'm not so passionate about a phone. But seriously, it's completely native.
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The term "virtual machine" was wrong, sorry. I should have used "run-time system". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C#Analysis_of_the_language)

As I see it Obj-C runs on top of the runtime system. I might be wrong though, maybe it is side to side.

EDIT: or I might juste be completely mistaken xD
 
Thinking back to the keynote, Apple had the opportunity to push this information in comparison to Android devices, but they chose not to. And even though they knew this to be true it says that they truly believe that specs do not matter, but user end experience does. Therefore that is how they presented the new A6.
 
Wow. My laptop averages at about 989 when it isn't overclocked (1.3 GHz)... I haven't check while actually overclocked though...

I wonder what the next iPhone will come in at...

Now I want to see what the GPU comes in at.
 
chrmjenkins said:
Important to note this will change when exynos 5 and Omap 5 and their like hit the market. But this is pretty big for a 1 GHz core.
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Important to note, but this will change again when an even more powerful processor enters the market.

I'm sorry, but this is a really lame argument. There is always some improvement, but right now, this is the most powerful CPU in any mobile device.
 
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