iPhone 6/Plus Geekbench Benchmarks hit the web

Don't bring "facts" into the debate of which phone is better. Shame on you!

 

Are the labels backwards? 7,2 has a higher clockspeed and higher benchmarks than the 7,1 but 7,2 is labeled the iPhone 6 while 7,1 is labeled the iPhone 6 Plus.

 

Good find

 

Those are backwards - it's already been established previous benchmark posts the 6+ is clocked higher and got higher scores.

 

I think you are right about that. Most benchmarks I've seen so far indicate the Plus is slightly faster. Also they have 7,1 clocked higher (1.38 vs. 1.32) and I would think if there is a clock speed difference, the Plus would almost certainly be the one clocked higher.

 

that's weird. You would think the iphone 6+ needed more processing power.
That just means the iphone 6 is bottlenecked, if they perform at the same speeds.

Also, the 6+ is the exact same benchmark score as the ipad air.

 

I'm just glad I bought both phones. It's looking very clear that the iPhone 6 has the better performance, whereas the 6 Plus has a bigger screen and a better camera.

 

It is however entirely possible the regular 6 would bench higher. Apple may well still have a lot of software optimization to do, and they may have optimized for the higher-volume regular 6 more at this early point. You also need to wait to get a consensus, a single sample of each model is not very reliable (one could have been downloading podcasts in the background or something, lots of things could affect the score on a single run).

 

2900 vs 2600 - both of which they are saying are the 6+ - so something isn't lining up. Does anyone know for sure, for a fact, if the 6+ is model 7,1 or 7,2?

 

Somthing doesn't fit here. It is totally unlogical that the 6 would get a faster A8 then the 6+. The Case is smaller, heat dissipation is lower and the battery is smaller...

 

Make sense to me. Anytime you bench a smaller screen it's going to get higher scores. When I benched a 17 inch MacBook compared to a 15 inch MacBook with the same specs ,the 15 inch came out with better scores. A native lower resolution with the same graphics card and the same CPU is always going to have a better score, then the one with the higher native resolution. You're pushing less with the same specifications.

 

Geekbench doesn't measure any gfx related stuff. It's a pure benchmark of the cpu/memory side.

 

So the 6 is faster than the 6+ according to this.

6+ is 7,1 Because after all, it is the "FLAGSHIP"

6 is 7,2

 

So 6 is the phone flagship. 6+ is the phablet flagship.

But 6 has higher geekbench, so that does it! 6 it is!

 

That's somewhat dissappointing. After reading the MacWorld review, I was beginning to think that the 6 Plus was clocked higher than the 6.

 

It very probably is - Anything else doesn't fit into logic.

 

Seems a little odd that those benchmarks show the 6 processor as 1.39 GHz and the 6+ as only 1.32 GHz. Maybe backwards?

 

The resolution does not factor into the Geekbench tests. They are not doing anything screen related, and are just measuring how fast the CPU / GPU perform while performing identical tasks.

That being said, as you mention, real life performance may differ. With the 6+ having double the number of pixels to work on, even if it had a faster Geekbench score, it could be slower in real life.

This is one of the many reasons that I detest Geekbench scores. I don't think they do a very good job of measuring what a computer / phone / tablet really performs when doing tasks that people normally do. With computers, for most people, a faster hard drive will make a computer feel faster than a computer with a faster CPU / GPU.

Also, other than games or media processing, multi-core performance does not make that much difference as to how fast a computer feels. Doubling the cores from 2 to 4 or 4 to 8 will double the score in Geekbench, but will not speed up almost anything that a normal user does.

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I agree ... I won't trust any Geekbench results until we see multiple benchmarks with consistent results.

 

The real question is- will it matter in the real world? Probably not.

Therefore, 99% of users need not worry about any very slight differences in these tests. Also even two 6's may differ slightly or two 6+'s. You get my point.

 

I think this is the first iPhone since the 4 that didn't blow the competition away at benchmarks.