Leaked Benchmarks Suggest iPhone XS Outperforms Samsung's Upcoming Galaxy S10+

[ThunderSkunk]

Great! Then it can render the little grid lines millions of a second faster when Maps drops your maps, can't reconnect to load more, and leaves you driving as a dot wandering blind in an infinite 2d plane.

When I think of Apples mobile issues, geekbench processor benchmarks edging out someone elses are not what come to mind.

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

Great! Then it can render the little grid lines millions of a second faster when Maps drops your maps, can't reconnect to load more, and leaves you driving as a dot wandering blind in an infinite 2d plane.

People still use Maps app? LOL

 

[madKIR]

And now let’s compare the Intel modem in the XS to the Qualcomm modem in the S10! LOL
What’s the point of all this power and efficiency found in the A12 when the phone itself is equipped with the garbage radio chip?!

 

[AEdouard]

Apple can do any throttling in any time they want and they already showed it, if it's not the right time for them now it will be in the next iOS update (13). My X isn't as fast as it was when I bought it, just the UI became way smoother with iOS 12 in fact my battery health is at 91% with 1 year of usage. iPhones don't last long stop with that myth.

What? Please take a few seconds to add structure to whatever that was.

 

[mejsric]

Apple can do any throttling in any time they want and they already showed it, if it's not the right time for them now it will be in the next iOS update (13). My X isn't as fast as it was when I bought it, just the UI became way smoother with iOS 12 in fact my battery health is at 91% with 1 year of usage. iPhones don't last long stop with that myth.

With your hate of Apple obviously you dont have iPhone X. Stop trolling

 

[usarioclave]

The benchmarks don't mean anything in isolation. From a system point of view it means that Samsung can't be as cost-efficient in its designs as Apple; they'll need a bigger battery to do more at some point.

The vast majority of Android users obviously don't care that much about lag, so a slower chip is irrelevant to them.

 

[1050792]

What? Please take a few seconds to add structure to whatever that was.

Apple is able to throttle their phones whenever they want. They showed that possibility since iOS, 7 in which older devices like the iPhone 4 and 4s became useless.

 

[AEdouard]

[QUOTE="LIVEFRMNYC, post: 27005762, member: 376163] (...) But other than that, the battle between the XS and S10+ will be dependent on the OS, UI, and other hardware.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, which is where iOS beats Samsung’s Android skin by a mile.

 

[1050792]

With your hate of Apple obviously you dont have iPhone X. Stop trolling

Now you think you know what I have? Better check my post history...

 

[rlhamil]

No, they're just ethical enough to pay what they're supposed to. Unlike Apple....

Apple should buy Qualcomm, keep the patent portfolio, and sell the rest to junk dealers. That would teach the lesson that you don't mess with Apple. Doubtless the resulting residue would continue to make modems for others, but they'd then have to license the tech from Apple.

 

[Cosmosent]

The Performance Controller in the A12 "could" be a weak link.

My 7+ doesn't have the same Perf Ramp-Up problems that my XR does.

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

Yeah, which is where iOS beats Samsung’s Android skin by a mile.

Many would disagree.

 

[efktd]

"Touch us" Who are you some kind of elite for owning an iPhone?

Yes. Exactly that. Because we still believe. We'll always believe.

 

[bayelrey80]

Samsung needs to switch to their own Exynos chips. I hear they are higher performance than the Snapdragon parts.

They stick with the Snapdragon parts because they need Qualcomm modems in the USA for VZW and Sprint. They don't have the nads to take on Qualcomm like Apple does.

If Qualcomm loses against the FTC, Apple, Samsung, etc will take their pound of flesh. We'll finally see Samsung Exynos in the US and likely see Apple-like refinement from Galaxy phones

 

[torana355]

Good thing CPU power is to the stage that there is more than enough even on my S9. Im just happy my S9 has a decent QC radio and great reception and data speeds, something that ACTUALLY matters on a mobile phone

 

[Ramchi]

Nobody buys a phone just to run meaningless synthetic benchmarks. What matters more is real world performance and iOS devices, for example, don't hardware decode VP9 for YouTube >1080p and despite misleading synthetic benchmark results, Apple SoCs aren't fast enough to software decode VP9 that six year old x86-64 CPUs can do.

iPhones having faster customised faster processor probably gets throttled in reality due to slower medems it offer. Hence realtime story always will be different.

 

[x-evil-x]

Now if apple can upgrade the software to the point all this power is worth anything they would be unstoppable. I still find it frustrating I can’t have YouTube small video playing while using safari or some reading app.

 

[fairuz]

Using Geekbench to decide which side you want to go to is silly. Nowadays the only test that's worth anything is to use them both for a bit and see which one you prefer. There's a lot more to smartphone satisfaction than raw CPU scores, that's for sure.

Yes, but I still like seeing Apple win the benchmarks cause it pisses people off. I don't even buy the new iPhones either; still on 6.

 

[bladerunner2000]

Apple should buy Qualcomm, keep the patent portfolio, and sell the rest to junk dealers. That would teach the lesson that you don't mess with Apple. Doubtless the resulting residue would continue to make modems for others, but they'd then have to license the tech from Apple.

Another one of these 'Apple should just buy out....'

What is with this entitled mentality?

 

[fairuz]

Because of course it does. One day they’ll realise strapping bucketloads of RAM won’t help overall speed or performance as much as they expect it to.

The extra RAM adds heat too. The thing is they need the RAM for all that Java garbage (and garbage collection, haha).

 

[Baymowe335]

This is another form of innovation Apple rarely gets credit for from the haters.

And remember, the mobile processing is something that in short term produces a snappy phone, with long service life, but ALSO paves the way for future devices that will need a ton of computing power for the next generation of mobile.

So no, this type of power isn’t just to open Instagram faster. It’s paving the way for the future of mobile computing and kudos to Apple for investing heavily in this area. It will give them a huge advantage.

 

[0388631]

Samsung needs to switch to their own Exynos chips. I hear they are higher performance than the Snapdragon parts.

Only in Geekbench. The SD 845 and the Exynos 9810 are about the same, with the Exynos edging out the SnapDragon in GeekBench benchmarks, while failing miserably in other test benchmarks. The new SnapDragon 855 is marginally faster than the SnapDragon 845. I very much doubt the upcoming Exynos 9820 can even grasp Apple's A12 tails, let alone some of their older SoCs.

And I say this as an Android fan.
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Let's see how that hole fares. It might be a new level of distracting.

They warned Mr. West about that, too. Look where it's gotten him.

 

[JordanNZ]

If you want a proper deep dive into the 855, don't bother with geekbench.
Have a look at the Anandtech analysis, which compares it to other SOCs.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13786/snapdragon-855-performance-preview

 

[woocintosh]

Hope to see the A processors in MacBooks near future...

 

[Michael Goff]

Even if they were equal, would there be something to use that power? A lot of people point to iPhone having a video rendering app that goes super fast. Does Android have one of those sort of pointless show off apps?