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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SuLyMaN - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
Thanks for the really good and truthful view of crapple.flashbacck - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
lol holy shitMetroid - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
Agreed with everything you said + the 1gb memory on iphone 6 is utterly bs and to mention apple has been hiding the 1gb memory ram, checked their website and nothing is said or showed the 1gb memory ram, checked the specs page and nothing too, its too shameful to show it has 300% less memory ram than its competitors heheWinterCharm - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
Why do they need more ram? The iPhone kills everything else in the benchmark (did you even read the anandtech review?). Apple rarely lists specs for their iDevices aside from storage. They don't need more ram when the 1GB iPhone is killing your 3GB android devices.Omega215D - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
More RAM is useful for future iOS updates with advance features or new games that come out taking advantage of the larger display/ resolution. You're also forgetting that the RAM is shared with the GPU which means you're not getting the full 1GB for apps and cache. Don't forget multitasking is only going to have more of a presence in the future in terms of iOS.It seems to me Apple fans commenting on a tech site don't know much about tech and how the parts actually work.
Kidster3001 - Thursday, October 2, 2014 - link
Apple doesn't want you to keep upgrading your phone. They want you to go buy a new one. Future-proof is a 4-letter word at Apple.akdj - Friday, October 3, 2014 - link
Weird, folks drill extremely happy with their near five year old iPhone 4 & their three and a half hear old iPad 2. Future proof. Interesting word choice. As far as 'future proofing' Apple is another example of 'paving the way' that others can't seem to figure out. Everyone gets the update the Same Day, Same Time. Works perfect! Adoption rates are exponentially quicker, faster and en masse than any other OEM or OS developer. Period. And with older devices they're optimizing and elimating features that WOULD cripple the user experience.I still own the original iPad. Still works great. locked into 5.x.x but holds a ten to twelve hour charge, spotless and scratch free. Going on five years old and still VERY usable for basic tablet comouting; surfing, email and social media, media consumption including incredible 'run time' for video watching or music listening. Reading books. Simple and older games. Pretty amazing and absolutely the opposite of your statement their Kidster. But you'll grow up, gain wisdom and 'learn' fact from fantasy
Metroid - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
I guess you fail to understand why memory ram is important for some specific tasks.grayson_carr - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
Because you can only have, at most, 5 tabs loaded in Safari at once before they will have to completely reload, which is time consuming and annoying at best. Even less tabs can stay loaded if, God forbid, you open another app for something and then return to Safari. That is just pathetic.akdj - Friday, October 3, 2014 - link
WTH do you need more than a half dozen tabs loaded?Buy a laptop man. Give it up
iOS defekopers defekop for the masses. 512/1GB A5/6(x)/7. iOS 8 defelopment had begun but as we saw with '7‘...as time moves on the "Monument Valleys" and Asphalt 8s show up. MS Office suite and unreal 1.0 release and an example of 'how to do it right'. The list goes on.
A large web page is 17-24 megs. There's almost ALWAYS more than 250-300 free and available, typically closer to ½ of the total isn't being 'spoken for' with compression. Available and 'free'. Cached and common processes life in the availability RAM for instant swipe to the app or page population. Apple seems to think more than 'five tabs' open results in a reload is reasonable. I agree. Typically I'll have two or three. I've got plenty of computers around if I need to write a thesis with mutilple Wiki and info Tabs ready immediately.
I've never understood this 'issue'
A) why so many tabs ...and
B) the instantaneous repopulation of a page with LTE or decent Wifi is a blink of an eye. If you're commenting and need to reference something else, tap, select all, copy. Go to your reference page and when ya return ...if for some reason its 'gone' just click the response and hold finger, 'paste'. You're good. As fast as ios is on new devices it's amazing to me you guys are able to think 'faster' tan 'it'. Weird. LTE and near ubiquitous Wi.fi coverage in urban and populated areas, one shouldn't be thinking 'EDGE' reload speed. Click the empty tab and its damn near fully populated when you're ready with your finger to scroll. Who. Cares? That much of a hurry? Invest in a decent ISP and speed. Your Iphone will take care Of the rest