MWC 2017: Huawei and LG Unveil New Phones and Smartwatches

[Tycho24]

Maths is not your strong point. 57% more doesn't mean twice.

I'll pick the faster multi-core speed, more memory, better camera, better battery life, faster charging, filesystem access, better OS and better value any day.

More power to you!!
Enjoy.
I'll go study my maths....
I don't want to round off 7% again & get "schooled". ;0)

 

[symphara]

More power to you!!
Enjoy.
I'll go study my maths....
I don't want to round off 7% again & get "schooled". ;0)

Uh. Schooling you do need. If you want to say that A is twice as fast as B, 50% won't do it either. The percentage you're looking for is 100%. For A to be twice as fast as B, it needs to be an 100% improvement over B.

50% only works if you want to say that B is half as fast as A.

Now looking at your original post:

"The P9 & P10 got single-core Geekbench scores of 1699 and 1884 respectively.
Whereas, iPhone 6S & 7 got 2353 and 3294."

You could compare the P9 with the 6S. The P9 is a little newer, but it was launched in April 2016, long before the iPhone 7, which is in the Mate 9/P10 generation.

Just taking your figures, the iPhone 6S is thus (2353 - 1699) / 1699 ~= 38% faster at the single-core synthetic benchmark compared to the P9. However while you got the iPhone 6S score right, the source shows 1738 for the P9, which puts the difference down to 35% (if you'll argue benchmark scores, at least be honest about them!).

On the multi-core side, it's 3939 (iPhone 6S) vs 4856 (P9), so the P9 has about 23% more total CPU speed.

Not that all this matters in the slightest. In day-to-day use it's fast and smooth.

Really, for twice the price, the iPhone should do everything much, much better.

And it doesn't. It's worse on many accounts, and hilariously worse on many other accounts.

 

[Avon B7]

What on earth are you talking about??
The P9 & P10 got single-core Geekbench scores of 1699 and 1884 respectively.
Whereas, iPhone 6S & 7 got 2353 and 3294.
Soooooo, 57% as fast- comparing most recent products.
I think I caught that Kirin slouching! ;0)

LOL

I was generalising and speaking about the processors as a whole. I even went so far as to say I'd prefer to wait until the Anandtech piece comes out and that I didn't have the single core numbers to hand. That piece will add more context and perspective to the raw numbers.

What you are doing is limiting your view to single core benchmark numbers and ignoring the multicore numbers and other aspects that will lead to a faster experience.

When I say it's no slouch it's because it isn't.. When Huawei presented the 960 they even went as far as including the A10 in the comparisons. That in itself says a lot about how Huawei sees the potential of Kirin.

 

[triton100]

Sure, you can see that when Samsung copied amoled and curved display and wireless charging from Apple.

apple were rumoured to have those features and as a result Samsung built their phones based on what the rumoured iPhone was purported to be. Just like I said in my post. Not sure what it was that you read differently

 

[kdarling]

Sure, you can see that when Samsung copied amoled and curved display and wireless charging from Apple.

apple were rumoured to have those features and as a result Samsung built their phones based on what the rumoured iPhone was purported to be. Just like I said in my post. Not sure what it was that you read differently

Samsung has had OLED since the first Galaxy S in 2010. It has had official Qi charging support available since 2014. And of course they started the whole edge curved screen thing, showing off a prototype back in early 2013.

IIRC, the rumors about Apple doing similar stuff didn't start until late 2015, but few believed them until late 2016.

 

[nick42983]

"the build quality is on par"... To what? Maybe you meant "on point"?

 

[Shanghaichica]

apple were rumoured to have those features and as a result Samsung built their phones based on what the rumoured iPhone was purported to be. Just like I said in my post. Not sure what it was that you read differently

You can't be serious.

I suppose this is alternative facts in play.