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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Jenius - Monday, October 20, 2014 - link
It's always difficult for me to understand such long hate comments.If you don't like it, just ignore it.
I admit I am a long time user of iPhones, because I think they are good for me. But I never really care if my friend would also use an iPhone or if he prefers Android.
As far as I can see, it is always non-iPhone users who are most vocal about features that they don't like, etc etc. If you are not going to use it anyway, why do you even care?
SJR - Thursday, November 6, 2014 - link
The Apple A8 and Sammy's Exynos 5433 are the two best SoC's out there. Moreover, the speed of the RAM of the latest iPhone's is almost double than their competitors. And although just like you said, the 16GB base-model is more of a joke nowadays, the capacity of their pricier siblings is unheard of. Can you point me to some other smartphone with 128GB's of embedded flash storage and, of course, a more competitive price? No.What's funny is the fact that you imply the smartphone with the most advanced 'intestines' of all is outdated.
Oh, I almost forgot: the AMOLED displays are crappier than a LED IPS-panel. They're simply more impressive due to their colors being over-saturated (and that means they display the colors WRONG.)
Iphneluver - Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - link
Are you through? You might as well get a rotary dial phone.. You'd be happier dumb assrupert3k - Sunday, February 1, 2015 - link
What a nutterCharlydance - Friday, March 6, 2015 - link
Right on mate.. These Ifool lovers hate when you talk and compare specs, so brainwashed they defend apple with words like "software optimisation" lol, and how Samsung copies apple., just really stupid arguments.Anyway I know what my next phone is:), my current phone(gs5) I have no complaints it's just a beast does everything I want eg. Download, stream content to any device including apple TV Hahaha play games without issue,
Apple Ifools can only dream of having a taste of what Samsung has given there followers.
w1p30ut3r - Saturday, October 3, 2015 - link
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph8554/67993...Caliko - Tuesday, October 6, 2015 - link
This obsessed iKnockoff fan doesn't understand HD.orangehead911 - Sunday, February 14, 2016 - link
Wow. You should get a lifexmen77 - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
yellowness camera (g3 much better).watch review
I can to give more proofs but links not allowed
sound worse than 5s, s5, htc one m8 and htc one mini2
calibration worse than note4
xmen77 - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
also sounds worse than g3