iPhone 6

[genetic]

iPhone 6 A8 GPU benchmark suggests it's behind the curve

If it's battling to stand its ground along the S5, then push that iPhone 6 Plus against its main rival - the Note 4, which sports a tru octa-core 64bit chip

 

[jacques is hier]

Doesnt Apple claim 50% improvement in GPU performance.This looks more like 5%.

 

[jacques is hier]

I think what Apple did was that they only slightly upgraded their A7 chip to save money.They knew that all they needed to do is take a iPhone 5S and give it a bigger screen and they would get record sales,so why do more?

 

[jacques is hier]

Some more benchmarks.
http://bgr.com/2014/09/09/iphone-6-specs-leak-benchmark-test/

 

[MisanoRed]

iSlave

 

[Slootvreter]

One thing I have to admit is that the iPhone is at least more stable than my old S3. It's pretty slow though, being an iPhone 4 with iOS 7 I have also noticed that the apps are much larger in size, for example Facebook is about 66 megabytes, and on Android it's about half of that.

 

[mercurial]

 

[Spizz]

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Am I the only one that thinks Apple is doing this correctly? All the other manufacturers seem to be involved in a d!ck measuring contest while Apple are tinkering with and bettering the specs they feel to be optimal? I mean if Retina is optimal, why push a 1080p screen for the sake of it and at the expense of battery life?

Just think of Nokia and their 43MP camera? Just ridiculous. Or even LG and their 2k screen and 4k video camera???? What's the point? Just because?

 

[Slootvreter]

Am I the only one that thinks Apple is doing this correctly? All the other manufacturers seem to be involved in a d!ck measuring contest while Apple are tinkering with and bettering the specs they feel to be optimal? I mean if Retina is optimal, why push a 1080p screen for the sake of it and at the expense of battery life?

Just think of Nokia and their 43MP camera? Just ridiculous. Or even LG and their 2k screen and 4k video camera???? What's the point? Just because?

Presenting lower specs as a benefit?

 

[Spizz]

Presenting lower specs as a benefit?

If it's contributes to the overall user experience, sure.

Specs aren't always everything.

 

[cerebus]

Presenting lower specs as a benefit?

Well, it depends on whether the lower specs are really a compromise and whether the spec sheet tells the full story.
E.g. you can go to 2560 res on a phone, but it doesn't necessarily provide much benefit over 1080, and may kill the battery life and impacts 3d gaming in unacceptable ways.
Or you could add a huge battery that increased the weight and bulk of the phone, or you could optimise the components to get the same battery life and shrink the phone size.
Or you could stick a 20mp camera on the back, but end up with worse quality images than a lower megapixel count, high quality sensor.
Or you can boost clock speed to increase speed, or keep the speeds down for battery life and improve efficiency so you get the same overall benchmarks.

Buuuut... it's up to the user whether the trade-offs on either side have been worthwhile. Personally the 326ppi of the iPhone6 bugs me because it's really outdated by now.

 

[bboy]

Interestingly enough I wrote a pretty hectic algorithm on my computer, a I7 3.4ghz 4770. Got it all peachy, ported the code to objective C directly and then ran it on my ipad mini v1 using an apple A5 1.0ghz dual core chip.

The code runs 4x faster on my ipad.. than it does on my pc 0_o.....

 

[falcon786]

I mean if Retina is optimal, why push a 1080p screen for the sake of it and at the expense of battery life?

Yeah that would be a good theory but the reality is very very different,I came from an iphone 5/5s to a note 3 and now and s5...on the iphones I honestly barely got through a single full day without charging my phone,with the note 3 used to hit 2,5 days and with the s5 1,5-2 full days.

Your statement actually just make the iphones battery life issue seem even more pathetic when you consider they dont have screen ppi to draw power like crazy,and to think I just pulled out my 5s a few hours ago and set it up as my main phone because I want to try ios 8 when it launches later this week....eish back to charging my phone just before I leave work.

 

[falcon786]

The one thing I must commend Apple on is the fingerprint reader though,very usable on the 5s,on the galaxy s5 it was a piece of junk that I had to disable because it prevented me from accessing my phone quickly always misreading my print.

 

[mercurial]

The one thing I must commend Apple on is the fingerprint reader though,very usable on the 5s,on the galaxy s5 it was a piece of junk that I had to disable because it prevented me from accessing my phone quickly always misreading my print.

Samsung used a cheap reader, whereas the iPhone one costed quite a bit more.

 

[Spizz]

Yeah that would be a good theory but the reality is very very different,I came from an iphone 5/5s to a note 3 and now and s5...on the iphones I honestly barely got through a single full day without charging my phone,with the note 3 used to hit 2,5 days and with the s5 1,5-2 full days.

Your statement actually just make the iphones battery life issue seem even more pathetic when you consider they dont have screen ppi to draw power like crazy,and to think I just pulled out my 5s a few hours ago and set it up as my main phone because I want to try ios 8 when it launches later this week....eish back to charging my phone just before I leave work.

Lol. Well funnily enough, I'm on an S5 just now and have a 5S coming this week. I really enjoy both systems but have gone off big phones recently so I had planned to use the 5S as my main phone.

Let's see if I can live with the battery

 

[cerebus]

Yeah that would be a good theory but the reality is very very different,I came from an iphone 5/5s to a note 3 and now and s5...on the iphones I honestly barely got through a single full day without charging my phone,with the note 3 used to hit 2,5 days and with the s5 1,5-2 full days.

Yeah that's largely down to the size of the phones allowing for a bigger battery component than the iPhone5s's 4" frame. The 6 Plus has like double the 6's standby time as well. You're not going to squeeze a Note3's specs down to that size of a frame and still hope for the same battery life.

Samsung used a cheap reader, whereas the iPhone one costed quite a bit more.

The iPhone one was significantly more advanced and better developed than the Samsung (or HTC) one. Cost was one factor but really the engineering of it was streets ahead.

 

[Maverick Jester]

Meh, I hate benchmarks. Give me real world performance any day.

 

[mercurial]

Cost was one factor but really the engineering of it was streets ahead.

Hence the higher cost...

 

[cerebus]

Meh, I hate benchmarks. Give me real world performance any day.

It's difficult to compare hardware without benchmarks, unfortunately. Real world performance is at least correlated to benchmarks. Tech comparison spreadsheets... now those I loathe.