Posted on 10/05/2016 7:41:04 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple’s new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are far and away the most powerful smartphones the world has seen thus far. In terms of both raw benchmark test scores on paper and real-world performance, Apple’s latest mobile devices outshine every other phone on the market. In fact, they’re even more powerful than Apple’s latest iPad Pro tablets, which is no small feat.
As powerful as they already are though, Apple is constantly working on next-generation products, looking to make them better and faster than their predecessors. Now, it looks like benchmark tests from Apple’s next-gen processor have leaked, revealing huge performance gains that are somehow even more impressive than what we just saw from the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus.
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Dutch gadget blog Techtastic points us to a potentially huge leak sourced on Weibo, where an anonymous user with a solid track record has published what he claims are Geekbench benchmark test scores from Apple’s A10X. The next-gen chip has not yet been revealed by Apple, but it will presumably power the company’s upcoming new iPad Pro tablets expected to be released early next year.
As a refresher, the iPhone 7’s new A10 Fusion chipset manages impressive scores of 3490 in single-core Geekbench tests and 5580 in multi-core tests. How does the A10X compare? According to this leak, Apple’s upcoming A10X scored 4236 on Geekbench’s single-core test and a ridiculous 6588 on the multi-core test. Those numbers would be off the charts if Techtastic hadn’t charted them (click to enlarge):
One last note: Beyond showing us how impressive Apple’s next-gen A10X chip seemingly is, one can follow the curve to get a good idea of just how incredibly powerful the A11 Fusion chip that powers next year’s iPhone 8 will likely be.
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Time for me to buy a new smartphone and your endless shilling for APL has me considering non-Apple products.
How long until the singularity? When will Skynet become self-aware? We are probably much closer than you realize.
The time you save loading your YouTube app you’ll lose fumbling around your pocket for your headphone dongle.
Oh, sure. . . I maintain the FreeRepublic Apple Ping list which has over 750 of your fellow freepers who have asked me to keep them appraised of things of interest to them regarding thing just like this article. . . but you call that shilling. Give it a rest.
Lemme guess. It’ll have all new power cables and connectors, all new USB cables & connectors, and all new accessories. So, you can’t reuse anything at all from previous models.
Zero: it's attached to the headphones.
Indeed.
Nope.
Nice try. How about looking something up before posting?
Keep up the good work bro.
Just drill a small hole near the base for the headphone jack.
Which last a few months with regular use before the buttons start failing. Then you get to choose whether to pay Apple top dollar for replacements or carry around a dongle.
all I need to know is this:
Can it play pokeymans Go without draining my damned battery?
Apple's iPhone 7 handily outperforms new Google Pixel in early benchmarks
By Mike Wuerthele — AppleInsider — Wednesday, October 05, 2016, 06:18 am PT (09:18 am ET)The Google Pixel phone officially revealed on Tuesday wasn't a well-kept a secret prior to release, and as a result there are a large number of benchmarks available. They show the phone's raw performance lags far behind that of the iPhone 7, and is even defeated in single-core performance by the iPhone 6s and iPhone SE.
Early benchmarks for the Pixel and Pixel XL phones in Geekbench 4 have come in at around 4100 for multiple core performance, and 1580 for single core, consistent with the earliest numbers claimed to be for the phone from mid-September.
In contrast, the Apple iPhone 7 link textmultiple core score is around 5600 regardless of model, with a single core score of around 3430.
For comparison, the iPhone 6s Plus has a multiple core benchmark of 4106, and a single core rating of 2508.
The processor in the Pixel XL is said to be running at the lower of the two speeds indicated by Google's technical specifications. However, the clock speed for the iPhone 7 was misidentified early on as well as a lower frequency than it actually peaks, so the benchmarks are thought to be accurate.
If the benchmarks are in fact measuring the slower of the two processors, a mathematical correction of the benchmarks in accordance with the faster processor still has the iPhone 7 beating the Pixel handily in both single and multiple core measurements.
While benchmarks aren't a perfect representation of day-to-day speed, nor do they measure user interface elements well, they are useful for comparison of the raw processing power between two pieces of computing hardware.
Both models of the Google Pixel revealed on Tuesday use a Snapdragon 821 CPU with two cores running at 2.15GHz, and two running at 1.6 GHz. The phone has 4 gigabytes of application RAM.
The Apple iPhone 7 series utilizes the A10 Fusion processor, with two high-performance cores, and two high-efficiency cores. The two high-performance cores run at 2.34GHz.
Probably yes, if you play it responsibly and don't do it in heavy traffic.
I doubt you can prove your assertion.
I don’t know if you’re keeping a list, but if you are, please put me down as someone that doesn’t give a flipping damn what phone you might want to buy — or not buy.
It already is:
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