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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Drasca - Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - link
Less workload = longer charge.Since we don't know the actual workload your teenagers are inconclusive. Given literal different Apple to Win Phone app economy systems, the usage model is further blurred. For all we know, your teenagers could be using the iphone more / intensively, but no conclusion can be drawn.
Personally, I think all your family should be spending less time on the phone, but that's me.
cknobman - Thursday, October 2, 2014 - link
No doubt they should be on the phone less and I try my damnedest to get them off.My wife is the problem and unfortunately that is a battle I wont win. Since I dont wont a divorce I have to make concessions somewhere.
If it were up to me my kids would not even have smartphones. Right the farthest I can go is to take them away when they are making poor grades and/or get in trouble.
Parhel - Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - link
I couldn't exactly tell from your comment if you have the 5 or the 5s. If you have the 5, though, check if your phone is part of the battery recall. Mine was, and after the replacement, the difference was night and day.cupholder - Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - link
I have a Note 3 that would last between 10 and 48 hours on a single charge. Yes, android is that annoyingly variable in that regard. The higher numbers tended to occur once I got AutoStarts and Greenify(rooted).With the iPhone 6+, I'm getting 36+ hours. I haven't done a full rundown outside of the first day, but I was actively trying to kill it to properly calibrate the battery for the first use. It was at 36 hours of use with 14 hours of "Usage" time. No idea how much of that was screen time. With the Note, I never got more than 6-7 hours of screen time.
Note during a day of work: Come home ~30-40%.
iPhone 6+ during a day of work: Come home ~70-85%.
This includes an hour break of constant screen on time and YouTube/Crunchyroll/Netflix viewing during that hour.
So, no, the battery life on this phone IS awesome.
dmacfour - Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - link
Why do you think the performance of the previous generation is indicative of the performance of the 6+?Stimpak_Addict - Thursday, October 2, 2014 - link
I got an iPhone 6, and I can attest that the display is very impressive.One thing that does bother me is the scaled apps that have not been optimized for iPhone 6's larger display. Mainly the fact that it makes the size of the keyboard inconsistent with apps that have been optimized for the larger screen. Of course, this will be fixed in time as developers update their apps.
beggerking@yahoo.com - Thursday, October 2, 2014 - link
i don't know why you would attest a 720p screen as being "impressive"...imo iphone 6+ screen is much better.
ufarooq - Thursday, October 2, 2014 - link
Hey guys...how did you estimated SPECINT2000 score? Did you run these workloads?Ryan Smith - Thursday, October 2, 2014 - link
Yes. We have built a version of SPECint2000 to run on iOS. These are estimated scores because SPEC CPU2000 is retired, which means further scores cannot be submitted as official.SunnyNW - Thursday, October 2, 2014 - link
Interesting Apple has been able to consistently deliver a die shrink (whether half-node or full-node) each year and if Samsung delivers like promised I guess can continue that next year with the A9 but I wonder if that will be the end of the year over year improvement...