Posted on 09/19/2017 1:44:40 PM PDT by Swordmaker
HIGHLIGHTS
The iPhone X was announced last week with many highlights including Face ID, an almost bezel-less OLED display, and a really fast A11 Bionic chipset - something the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus also sport. The SoC has six CPU cores, with the ability to run all of them simultaneously. Now, the iPhone X has been put through GeekBench 4, and the single-core and multi-core tests both prove that the chipset is indeed very powerful. The Apple iPhone X beats the competition in the market - like the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, Samsung Galaxy S8, the OnePlus 5, and the Samsung Galaxy S8+ by a fair margin, as seen in this comparison graph. The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and Galaxy S8 are being powered by a Exynos 8895 SoC, while the OnePlus 5 and the Galaxy S8+ are powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoCs.
The multi-core scores for the iPhone X are much higher than the rest with the second on the list being the Galaxy Note 8 with 6,784 points, while the iPhone X manages a score of 10,069. The single-core score for the iPhone X is at 4,188, while the iPhone 7 Plus stands second with 3,473 points. The iPhone 7 Plus has an A10 Fusion chip with two high-powered cores and four power-efficient ones, but unlike the A11 which is able to run all cores simultaneously, the last generation one was able to run only one cluster at a time - either the high-powered one or the power-efficient ones.
These benchmarking scores do indicate what a powerhouse of a device the iPhone X is. The iPhone X and the iPhone 8 Plus are thought to be powered by 3GB of RAM, while the iPhone 8 is said to have 2GB of RAM.
Apple's A11 Bionic SoC features a 'neural engine' to handle machine learning or artificial intelligence based tasks, powering Face ID, Animoji, and other features. It's a six-core CPU design with two performance cores that are 25 percent faster than the company's A10 Fusion, which it has previously used in older iPhone generations. The other four cores are for efficiency that are 70 percent faster than the A10 Fusion. Coupled with these cores is a new, second generation performance controller that makes use of all the six cores simultaneously (as mentioned earlier), delivering up to 70 percent greater performance for multi-threaded workloads.
Apple claims that the A11 Bionic-powered iPhone models will last two hours longer than the previous generation. The A11 Bionic chipset is also integrated with an Apple-designed GPU with a three-core design that delivers up to 30 percent faster graphics performance than the previous generation.
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I don't use my iPhone for much, so the A11 is overkill - but I really want one of these chips in a 12.9" OLED-screen iPad Pro.
Holding out for an Iphone X Plus here, hopefully about the size of an IPad mini with a phone built in it...
Stop being iSheep...
That would be good, too. I always wanted to ditch the iPhone for a future iPad Mini Pro with a SIM card. I’ve always found smartphones to be too big to carry comfortably and too small to do anything useful.
Wow. That will make for some fast animation of poo emojis.
article omits that the plain old iphone 8 scored the absolute fastest of all
Don’t be ridiculous. That’s not what the new chip is for.
It so you can have augmented reality and have animated poop appear right on the table in front of you!
Is this testing the chip or the software and chip? Everyone knows Android is crappy slow.
Interesting. That means ios11 mods to work with iPhoneX is slowing it down. Or the is a bug in a driver.
Which Android can access ITunes with all the stuff I have on it?
Who cares. The only upgrade I give a damn about is Apple moving the 1 million jobs from China to the US. I have a 3 year old Samsung Galaxy Note with one side that has the edge glass. Works great.
The new iPhone is epic. It’s 1mm thinner and a whole entire half a gram lighter. It even puts you in the system and feeds facial recognition about you to the CIA and NSA. /S
Bring the jobs back. And stop hiring H1Bs to replace US jobs
As an IT professional, I can’t wait to get to work and dock my mobile device at my desk and not have a desktop. This device may be it.
These are really becoming powerful standalone computers and are getting more optimized for artificial intelligence.
I’ll be interested to see the new kinds of health and fitness capabilities coming to individuals with this kind of dedicated hardware on hand.
Ahh, gotta love sales talk. :-)
Umm, the competition will still be there in the morning.
Right up there with the famous: "This {whatever} changes EVERYTHING!!!!!"
Umm, no it doesn't. I guess I'm just not impressed by sales hyperbole.
Meanwhile, is vooch's comment #8 ("article omits that the plain old iphone 8 scored the absolute fastest of all") true?
So, are these other companies lying in ruins? What about heat running six cores at once?
Just imagine the 3D porn you can watch with a visor adapter...
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