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Posted on 10/04/2017 11:38:24 PM PDT by Swordmaker
The A11 Bionic moniker may admittedly be nothing more than a marketing gimmick, but Apple’s next-gen processor is nothing short of a monster. In the days leading up to and following Apple’s iPhone media event, the iPhone 8 Geekbench 4 scores from Primate Labs’ Geekbench test were truly jarring. So while iOS and Android have arguably come close to reaching feature-parity in recent years, the overall system performance provided by Apple’s custom-designed A-x processors continues to leave Android handsets in the dust.
In fact, with Apple’s new flagship iPhone models running more than 50% faster than top of the line Android handsets in some tests, Primate Labs founder John Poole can’t help but wonder why we’re only seeing huge performance improvements emanating from Apple.
“The thing that I don’t fully understand is why performance has seemed to stagnate on the Android side,” Poole said in an interview with Tom’s Guide. “Where you don’t see these big leaps forward. I don’t understand what’s happening there.”
“At this point, you’ve got desktop-class performance in a handset. There’s no way of looking at it any other way,” Poole later added. “I wouldn’t have thought to use my first-generation iPhone to edit video. I would’ve thought you were crazy.”
Even though most iPhone users may not necessarily need to take advantage of all the processing power afforded by Apple’s next-gen processor, the larger point is that Apple is better positioned than its Android counterparts for the future of mobile computing.
Indeed, Apple’s decision to bring chip development in house has turned out to be one of Steve Jobs’ shrewdest decisions. As Apple chip guru Johnny Srouji said earlier this month, “This is something we started 10 years ago, designing our own silicon, because that’s the best way to truly customize something that’s uniquely optimized for Apple hardware and software.”
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Android works on multiple phones from multiple manufacturers so it's no surprise it can't be as optimized as an Apple OS on an Apple phone.
But then again ...
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Where, and who manufacture the iphone? I was told it is made in China, using child labor. I do not know the truth, can anyone tell me for sure where it is made?
Largely apples & oranges, given the disparity between a single custom chip/platform and a host of chips/platforms.
smart phone <> religious icon
a lot of these threads become really, really creepy
This has nothing to do with hardware optimization, fardels. This is raw processing power represented by standardized Geekbench tests that measure that. Here is the proof:
Got my 8 Plus on Sunday
Love it
Apple contracts with FoxConn, a Taiwanese owned contractor that manufactures 60% of the world's consumer electronics to assemble iPhones in China. There is ZERO child labor involved. Apple's contracts with its supply chain companies, which are closely monitored by Apple's own employees, provide that if any underage workers are found working on any Apple products, the contract supplier MUST provide a free education for that underage worker all the way through University graduation, including room and board, or until age 26, which ever occurs first.
That is very strong dis-incentive for any such contractors to knowingly hire underage workers. Surveys of Apple's entire supply chain done in 2015, covering almost 1.5 million workers, found only 67 underage workers, all of whom were using false IDs or IDs borrowed from relatives. Every one of them was offered the educational scholarships. Surprisingly, some 30% or so of them opted not to take the scholarship, choosing instead to go work for some other company so they could continue sending money to their families.
One contractor who was discovered blatantly violating the underage worker rules of Apple's contract, hiring slightly over 100 underage workers after being warned by Apple, had their TWO BILLION DOLLAR contract pulled by Apple, and the contract awarded instead to the next lowest bidder, costing Apple more money to do the same work by another company who WOULD abide by the strictures in the contract. Apple's contracts also specify working conditions and require workers be paid better than workers on other makers products.
iPhones are also made in Brazil and India. Many of the Components of the iPhone and iPad are made elsewhere than China, including in the USA by American workers. It is entirely designed in California, as is the software.
No, it isn't. This is comparing the capabilities of the processors. Do you know how Geek Benchmarks even work? I thought not. They are designed to eliminate such differences as you are implying. They compare raw processing speed and power.
You pay a lot more for that too. The only reason i can think of is that Apple is going to go hard into VR soon with something like the samsung gear
You don’t need a gear like gadget. . . it does it now with just the iPhone in the real world on the screen. Strangely, the iPhone 8 is faster than the more expensive iPhone X.
Please forgive swordmaker, he can be a bit argumentative in the morning. Afternoon and evening too.
At desktop-class prices.
As for a 50% faster chip, how does that extra cost translate into value for a guy who utilizes the phone basically for calls, text messages, and internet? Now that is the true consumer benchmark;)
Does this mean I can talk faster?
Can I do humongous spreadsheets and edit books now on a tiny screen using my thumbs?
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Thank you for the info. I use no apple products.
That’s always my issue as well. The iPhone is the most over engineered piece of hardware on the planet.
The average user would see far more vale in another 128 gigs of memory than a new chip.
The only reason we upgraded was 16 gigs of memory has been made woefully obsolete with many new apps moving close to the GB size range.
So I have a phone now more powerful than my 5 year old gaming PC but I can’t type on it or view details. So why do I care about chip performance?
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