The iPhone 6 Review
by Joshua Ho, Brandon Chester, Chris Heinonen & Ryan Smith on September 30, 2014 8:01 AM EST- Posted in
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- iPhone 6
CPU Performance
Now that we have a good idea of what the A8 SoC looks like, we can talk about performance. While we covered this in the preliminary article, it’s worth going over again. For those that are unfamiliar with our test suite the CPU-based tests are mostly browser-based benchmarks. Once again, although I’m not quite happy with the state of benchmarking things we’re getting close to a more platform-agnostic solution.
For the most part, the A8 SoC performs admirably despite the relatively low (1.38 GHz) frequency and half the cores when compared to competing SoCs. It seems that this is mostly building upon the lead that A7's Cyclone CPUs began. It remains to be seen if other SoC manufacturers will catch up in their CPU architecture at one point or another (NVIDIA's Project Denver in particular is interesting), but for now Apple seems to be quite far in the lead in CPU performance.
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grayson_carr - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
I own an iPad and my wife uses an iPhone. I hate lightning connectors. They're expensive, they die or stop being recognized far too frequently, and I can't use them with any of my other electronics so they add more cable clutter to my house and cars. So your statement is false. There are people who own Apple devices and still hate lightning connectors. Also, check out the lightning cable reviews at Apple's website (1300 1 star reviews vs 130 5 star reviews... hmm)... http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD818ZM/A/lightn...blackcrayon - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
How are people killing these lightning cables? I've never had one die, the first one i got from my iPhone 5 is probably still working (can't tell them apart really, but they're all still working).shm224 - Thursday, October 2, 2014 - link
you are the exception, not the norm. the 1.5 star, out of 5, on Apple review clearly demonstrates that @grayson_carr isn't the only one with unhappy with Apple's charge cables.mrochester - Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - link
It sounds like you're being incredibly careless with your cables. Personally I think people who don't look after their things deserve to see them broken. I've never had any Apple or micro-USB cable break. Maybe try looking after you're stuff a bit better?dmacfour - Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - link
A lot of people think it's normal to bend the connector ends of the cable at obscene angles. I've never done thing with any kind of cable, and I've never had a cable fray.akdj - Friday, October 3, 2014 - link
I agree. We've got a dozen ipad fours. We use them in the field. All over Alaska and from extreme to extreme temperature wise. Had the iPhone 5&5s'es for 17 employees and my wife, nine year old son iPod touch fifth gen and not a SINGLE lightning cable since their release two years ago has crapped out. Two dozen at least with backups for vehicles, desks and homes.This is ridiculous. Whoever 'breaks' a Lightining cable does it intentionally. They don't. Just. Break. Good Lord!
michael2k - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
Apple has more cash on hand than the US Treasury:http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/04/14...
Not sure why you think they needed to compete in the mid and low end three years ago, do you really think they need that much more cash?
Hemlocke - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
Exactly. Every other OEMS competes there, and the only one who is even playing in the same sport as Apple is Samsung, and they have been sent back to the minors over the last year. Competing on the low-end/price is a race to the bottom that nobody wins except Google, much like Microsoft did in the PC business. In the end, Apple proved that model to be inferior, as well.techconc - Thursday, October 2, 2014 - link
Lightning connector is not defective. We all wish USB would have put nearly as much thought into their connectors as Apple has. I can't exactly blame Apple for raising the bar here and showing others how it should be done.It's funny, people see jacka$$ on youtube putting lots of pressure on an iPhone 6 plus and assume it's a real issue. Those that I know with a 6+ don't seem to have any trouble with it in their pockets, etc. Also, why no mention of devices like the HTC One which bends under considerably less pressure? According to consumer reports, it bends under 70 lbs of pressure whereas the iPhone 6+ doesn't start to bend until 90 lbs. of pressure.
supgk - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
Wow.. I sincerely hope it's just Samsung paying you to write that. The thought that anyone would truly believe it is depressing.