8 cores vs 6 cores.
And then, who the heck cares? Because, the vast majority of people, perhaps all, will not notice any difference. Most people don’t even need 2 cores, but for bragging rights, the phone makes will tout their latest and greatest, and then, people will forget the difference, since, all the phones will perform just about equally when it comes to talk and text and web browsing and e-mail and picture taking and picture viewing and conversing with friends and family over the “live” features, and social media use and apps and games, etc.
In any case, can you tell us why the regular consumer NEEDS 6 cores or 8? Those are the people that purchase the phones. So, go ahead.
BTW, when it comes to the 6 cores, wont the iPhone X be hampered by the amount of main memory that the phone comes equipped with? Whereas, the Note 8 comes with 6 gigabytes vs 3 for the iPhone 8. So, when it comes to multi-tasking, it’s the Note 8 which is much better equipped to handle multiple windows and multiple tasks.
When it comes to “actual practice”, the actual practice that counts is in the hands of the consumers, and not in some controlled laboratory testing.
In any case, did you bother to even look and read other comparisons, where just about every comparison that I saw, gives the edge to the Note 8.
And, since the iPhone is just now catching up to technology that’s about 2-3 years old, I’m pretty sure that all the new “hero” models from the other manufacturers will be coming out with NEW technology which will blow the iPhone X out of the water and make it feel like the technology of 2-3 years old again.
BTW, I will not own a Note 8 nor a iPhone X. I don’t automatically upgrade to the latest-and-greatest just to be seen with the latest-and-greatest. Most technology that 2-5 years old is quite well suited for most people. Only the Apple fanatics feel the obligation to support their mothership by spending 1200-1500 dollars on whatever is the new iPhone.
Use for more cores? Certainly. On the Apple, two of those cores are high-efficiency, low energy cores used for running apps that do not demand a lot of speed and power or battery drain which run simultaneously and preemptively in the background. The other four cores are extremely high-speed processors that can also work preemptively and cooperatively and simultaneously or independently on apps that do require such resources, four example 4K videography at up to 240 frames per second. . . Or superimposing multiple realtime animated virtual reality based 3D objects on real detected environmental surfaces mapped on the screen, and maintaining those objects regardless of how or at what speed the user moves the device?
As for RAM, Apple iOS devices are far more efficient at RAM usage than any Android device, and use a far superior type of storage memory that is five to six times faster than the flash memory used in Android devices, which means that moving data to and from RAM from storage as needed is far quicker than on any Android device, especially one that uses the much slower removable storage cards. iOS can actually run Apps and access data from storage memory as it is on the bus. As a result, iOS needs far less RAM memory to accomplish what Android's inefficient memory handling system requires twice as much RAM to do half as fast.
As for those "other comparisons," no one has had an iPhone X or an iPhone 8 Plus in hand to DO those comparisons. They are making their comparisons talking with experience with only one product, the Samsung S8, in hand. They are comparing spec sheets or rumors.
BTW, I will not own a Note 8 nor a iPhone X.
Of course you won't. You only post on Apple threads to through brickbats and negative comments. You've never bought an Apple product before so why break that streak now.