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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recklesslife85 - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
Idiot.Bobberr - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
Oh hey there GruesomeFireFighter/ Samsung/ AppleCrappleHater2.http://www.legitreviews.com/first-apple-iphone-6-b...
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WinterCharm - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
Hahaha he's so insecure he has to post about his apple hate on MULTIPLE websites. XD Oh god this is priceless.Stuka87 - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
wow.... You have some issues dude. Oh, and your analogies are horrible.kirito - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
Man, BS get a real job. A one sided comment means you are here employed by someone or you are totally obsess to your godlike BS phone.gandhi_theft_auto - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
Apple's position is more like "why have a 4K screen on a mobile phone if anything beyond about 400ppi is invisible to the human eye anyway". I like their approach, it's more about providing a packaged experience than a laundry list of ~~leet specz~ that integrate badly or not at all (case in point: NFC on Android).danbob999 - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
1080p is the perfect resolution as it allows you to do 1:1 clone on a TV or monitor720p is fine too for smaller displays.
SuLyMaN - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
And call the resulting crap 'Retina HD'. I like it too.atkilthas - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
Well, of course it's called Retina HD. If it were a 4k screen, it would be Retina 4k.grayson_carr - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
I agree with you about 400 PPI being enough. Anything above 1080p on a phone is a waste of resources. But the iPhone 6 isn't 1080p, or at 400 PPI, and I can easily see a difference between it and higher density displays, so there is definitely some further improvement needed at least on the smaller iPhone 6.