This makes me extremely happy. I cannot WAIT for this thing to take me on the speediest of rides.
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iPhone 5 Benchmarks Appear in Geekbench Showing a Dual Core, 1GHz A6 CPU
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This says one thing to me: Apple has designed the CPU for the OS. You can do crazy things with that kind of design philosophy.
I wouldn't say they are dead; but this looks to me or any tech enthusiasts ..that apple focuses on details not only on the outside, but also on the internal engineering.
Anyone can dump in 3000 + mAh worth of battery and claim that their phone has the best battery life; but making a thinner phone with better performance and battery life? That's innovation.
Apple iPhone 5 1601
SGS3 1560
In the scheme of things, how much faster is a factor 41 please? I ask this because I don't know the answer.
SGS3 1560
In the scheme of things, how much faster is a factor 41 please? I ask this because I don't know the answer.
What I consider MAJOR is that most apps are single-threaded while the benchmarks run on all the phone's cores.
This puts a HUGE difference (up to 50% speed) between an app running on iPhone 5 or on a 4-core GIII.
iPhone4s was already fluent and fast, iPhone 5 will obliterate competition!
This puts a HUGE difference (up to 50% speed) between an app running on iPhone 5 or on a 4-core GIII.
iPhone4s was already fluent and fast, iPhone 5 will obliterate competition!
The S3 is quad core, the iPhone is dual core. In practice very few applications, especially on mobile, take advantage of a quad core CPU. Geekbench is an exception. In practice this means the iPhone has a much larger performance advantage than indicated by the benchmark.
Remember, as Uncle Ben told Peter Parker aka Spiderman, that "with Great Power comes Great Responsibility!"
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New iphone 5 is a leapfrog over the competition device not a catch up....Minor improvements ? Um, no...All the preorder numbers do not agree with that selling out in 1 hour vs 22 hours for the 4s....
NFC right now is pointless. Just a waste of space. Same with wireless charing - it doesn't give you any more convenience. The phone makes no use of the higher screen resolution, just makes things bigger. GS3 is just a spec whore. Aside from that, it's average.
Apple has just integrated elements of next gen ARM licenced technology. Its hardly APPLE! Its ARM and their Q3 availability time table of these licensed technologies.
A15 cores are ready to go in the next flagship Samsung Phones with Exynos 5 which will wipe the floor with the A6.
Not much faster. I think the point being made (or alluded to
is that the iPhone 4S was already perceptually competitive in speed to other phones and it was only 1/2 the performance we'll see with the iPhone 5.
I'm not missing the point. If the iPhone didn't exist, I'd simply not buy a smartphone at all. I like that the iPhone has a nice design and a great OS, and although Android phones are OK, they're below my threshold. I don't care at all about the specs.
I'm just saying that, for the sake of pointless spec comparisons, you can't compare an iPhone 5 to an S3 to show that one company is better at making fast phones. Nobody should be saying stuff like "Samsung just got pwned" because they didn't (if you are talking about specs). I think Samsung got pwned when it comes to design and user experience.
Wha-? "Larger performance advantage than indicated by the benchmark"? Keep dreaming...
Of course NOW the benchmarks don't matter. How pathetic can some people be. LMAO
Well I'm going to speak for myself, but I couldn't care if this thing had a score of 99000000 instead of 1600. What this does for me is help to emphasize that specs truly don't matter, but end results do. And the Fandroid I'm talking to can't just blindly throw up some number and claim another device is better just because that number is bigger.
So again, specs don't matter, but what I and other people are excited about is the fact that it nulls many Fandroid's arguments that they have used against Apple products for a long time.
Except the A15 cores are optimized for server use. Ah well, time for Sammy to go to the drawing board or use an 8-core processor on the same architecture
Heh. And then the A7 will wipe the floor with the Exynos 5... Rinse, repeat.
And of course it is Apple using and customizing ARM technology. It's both. Just like it will be Samsung and ARM.
Give me a break, the Galaxy S3 is Samsungs flagship phone for 2012 until 2013 when the S4 releases. Everyone laughed at the 4S when it was getting beat by the S3 in these tests and said "Wait till the iPhone 5 is out, and let's retest." Well that day is here, and Apples dual core iPhone 5 is outscoring Samsungs quad core S3. No matter which OS, or phone you prefer, you have to admit that's pretty darn impressive!
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