I am sure some do this but I don’t see a majority of people concerning themselves with it.
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iPhone X Beats Samsung Galaxy S9 in Benchmarking Tests
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No. But that’s not the point of making a fast processor - it’s so capabilities are there WHEN someone needs them.
CPU power drives software innovation. Imagine if Intel sat back and decided PCs were already “fast enough” and didn’t keep pushing to make more powerful CPUs?
Exactly. My workplace has monitor / keyboards for all employees (everyone just plugs in their laptop when they get to work), so the employer supplies 2 of those. At home I have a monitor and keyboard just as everyone else, and I brought an old monitor to my overnight apartment (where I spend a few days a week). Evening browsing there with just the laptop screen works ofc, but if I have a spare monitor in the closet, why not set it up. So yes, for me a DeX type solution would be perfect.
Why benchmark phones though? I didn't even notice a difference in speed going from a Galaxy S4 to a Galaxy A5. Barely anything on a phone will even take advantage of most of the CPU capability they jam into phones these days.
Work on efficiency instead of speed like PC CPUs have been doing.
Work on efficiency instead of speed like PC CPUs have been doing.
Agreed, benchmarks are useless here, I would like focus on scrolling stuttering, keyboard delays, and other slow down anomalies that start happening after the 1-2 year mark. Macbooks can last 5-8 years without these annoyances, yet iPhones fail misserably.
At my work only a few managers use laptops and plug into monitors/keyboards at work. They actually need to be mobile, and they don't require powerful machines because they typically run office/productivity software. All the developers, technicians and others who do the heavy lifting all have high-end PCs or workstations (which get replaced with the latest/fastest every 2-3 years).
I explained this in the iMac Pro thread, so I'll touch on it again here. If you're paying an employee $50-100K a year to code (for example), why on Earth would you make them suffer by using a slower machine? The cost of a PC is dirt cheap compared to employee salaries (especially since you can write them off), so we regularly buy brand-new machines to allow employees to work as fast as possible. You can't remove all bottlenecks related to employee productivity, but buying capable machines is a very easy and inexpensive way to get rid of one. So in our case, if we had an employee that needed to work in multiple locations AND they did something like code/design, then we'd spend the $$$ and put capable PCs in all those locations.
Do you not own a PC at all? You're happy working as a professional on just a basic laptop (such that you could downgrade to a phone and you'd still be able to do your job efficiently)? You never game? You don't like having a powerful PC with dual monitors to work on? I'm curious what kind of software development you do where you'd be satisfied with using a phone and all its limitations to actually work on.
Is funny to see the score for the iphone x in Manhattan 3.1 gfxbench when the latest open gl es supported in ios is 3.0.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/opengles
https://gfxbench.com/device.jsp?benchmark=gfx40&os=iOS&api=gl&D=Apple+iPhone+X&testgroup=info
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/opengles
https://gfxbench.com/device.jsp?benchmark=gfx40&os=iOS&api=gl&D=Apple+iPhone+X&testgroup=info
Dude are you really going to play the version card? The gs9 will get about 10 speed updates from its original firmware in the next few months
Even if Android was 10x slower I'd still get it over an iPhone.
Open door vs. closed door.
Also quite often fast devices, of any kind, means lame battery performance.
On my Note 8 I have about 75% battery left when I go to bed at night.
This is after a whole day and night of using it.
Open door vs. closed door.
Also quite often fast devices, of any kind, means lame battery performance.
On my Note 8 I have about 75% battery left when I go to bed at night.
This is after a whole day and night of using it.
My apologies. Im talking purely ios on phones is no where near as good as android phone alternatives for business. (Note 8 User here) When it comes to business i prefer a windows hybrid to ipad pro anyday.
Benchmark results are awesome but what does it matter when a Galaxy S7 edge matches an iPhone X in a realworld scenario?
Benches mean diddly to most people.
Apple need to work on the software of iPhone which is iOS 11 from root. It’s too buggy. Secondly they need to increase RAM to 4GB in next iPhone. I will still prefer iPhone X over S9 as I love to use iOS over Droid & I really hate shaemsung. Every time they fool buyers, different phone for different markets. That really sucks.
iPhone X is Performance Beast but iOS 11 is feels like not made for iPhone X. Waiting for iOS 12 which will be designed with iPhone X & next iPhone in mind.
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iPhone X is Performance Beast but iOS 11 is feels like not made for iPhone X. Waiting for iOS 12 which will be designed with iPhone X & next iPhone in mind.
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Brother that’s the problem of iOS 11 bugs not iPhone X. It’s a Beast in performance but iOS 11 is holding it back.
Maybe so but the S7 edge is two years old, the benchmark scores are double that of the S7 edge if not more but in everyday use, the difference is negligible except for a few things, like if encoding video on your phone is your thing.
Double the benchmark score doesn't equate to double the everyday performance.
I guess Samsung Experience (aka touchwiz) is more refined than iOS 11 at this stage?
That's exactly where performance is important though- doing tasks that take minutes vs split seconds. I don't think it's too big of a stretch to think video encoding is one's "thing" - the cameras are one of the most important features on these devices. I think everyone would much rather wait 30 seconds to export 4k/60fps video vs. 2 minutes.
Well in fairness that’s not real world usage either. Nobody uses their phone like people do in these speed tests.
Benchmarks and speed tests are meaningless really. How the phone performs day to day is what matters.
Finally.. a voice of reason.. if only everyone had the same sensible opinions.
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That' blown my mind, so a 2 yr old handset is basically a fraction of a second behind the new X!!! Wow, wtf, so benchmarks really are pointless in the real world...
According to Anandtech the first firmware on the gs9 is horrible and is barely faster then the gs8.
The x has been out for 4 months and has no excuses on firmware period.
You notice I made no comment about the video itself, which was win some and lose some for both, but it would have been nice to know.
It should not even be brought up at all.its a first gen firmware on the gs9 with a brand new custom cpu architecture with zero apps that have been optimized for it.
Except it’s not. Hardware is useless without software. This has been true for the last 50 years. Which is why iOS completely dominates Android in the corporate world. You know, people who use devices for business/work.
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That’s not real world use. For example, they launch Adobe reader and then...
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do nothing? Why don’t they load a PDF file and see how long each takes? Like Tom’s Guide did and found the Note 8 was destroyed by the iPhone 8. That’s an example of a real world scenario.
This is why, since the beginning of time, benchmarking involves putting software through its paces and seeing how fast it gets various tasks done. The very few Youtubers who actually do this will encode video, edit photos, load complex PDFs or actually play games. And when these tests are done the iPhone slaughters every other phone out there.
I suppose when gamers test video cards they should simply time how long it takes the game to load and then.....that’s it? Reload the game and measure the second launch time? They shouldn’t bother playing the game at multiple resolutions and various detail settings and measure the frame rates, because launch times are “real world use” while actually playing the game isn’t? Seriously?
All these App race tests prove is how upset so many people are at Apples superior A Series processors and the lengths they’ll go to create a flawed test to show some Android Phone is faster. That speaks volumes to your last comment: “Benches mean diddly to most people.” Apparently they mean a LOT to all these Youtubers to cause them to manufacture bogus tests to declare a winner. And based on comments in this thread it apparently means a lot (bothers) a lot of people here as well.
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