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.
Which Android can access ITunes with all the stuff I have on it?
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iSheep allow themselves to be trapped by a single manufacturers access suite.
Hmm...is that on the horizon?. I’ve been thinking about the Pro to replace my Air (which still rocks daily).
Oh, and the Note 8 comes with 8 cores, vs 6 for iPhone X.
Not impressed , I have 40 years of seeing any hardware performance advantages be immediately pissed away by crappy software that only gets more and more bloated with no advantages for the user.
That’s why I bought the 6Plus...enough screen real estate to use maps while I’m hiking. It’s hard on a very small screen to get your bearings by constantly zooming in and out, in and out. I’d actually like a screen bigger than the 6 Plus, but it wouldn’t fit in a pocket. Maybe an iPad Mini and get bigger pockets sewed onto my hiking pants?
“can unlock your phone by pointing it at your face or a picture of your face?”
Your “real” face, yes. Picture of your face ... I would suspect not ... I think it has to detect some kind of depth in a scene for it to work. “Real” is “easy” to determine by moving the phone while you’re unlocking it.
Many of my friends, colleagues and customers have iPhones.
So I don’t.
They look at my new LG G6 which I will wind up paying around $270 for to purchase over 2 years, and my case which I paid less than $10 for, they say pretty cool !!
My story: When the first iPhone came out, I compared it to the new HTC Evo of the era, and the HTC was a much nicer display.
I got it, and later two more HTC’s. But the final HTC lasted less than 2 years before starting to fall apart.
So I switched to very well rated LG. You know, the other Korean tech giant that stays out of the news?
Always have been and still am an iPhone user(iPhone 6)
But I’m going to pass on the coming $1000.00 iPhone X.
Can use that money to buy a AMD 1950x Threadripper.
Oh, I think you forgot to mention that the iPhone X FINALLY has an amoled screen, whereas Samsung has had that feature for years now. And, the iPhone X screen is “made by Samsung”.
I guess Apple should be congratulaed for FINALLY catching up to the competition of 2-3 years ago.
Probably next year. Current iPad Pros are great, though - and the 12.9” is worth every penny.
Coverted my iTunes library when I switched to Android two years ago.
You’ll forget how to type.
Bought the iPhone 8.
Middle kid needs a new phone so he inherits the 5s.
Really don’t expect to need the faster processor. Will it make my phone calls faster?
The article starts with a fib, about vaporware, no less.
It looks bezel-less until you turn it on, unlike Samsung's products, which actually wrap around the sides.
My Sony Xperia Zv3 has been going strong for 3 years.. Nothing broken on it yet.. No other Android lasted this long!
It means you have to move four times the number of pixels around on a screen on the iPhone X than you do on an iPhone 8 or 8 Plus. That requires more time. Simple math.
So this test is measuring screen performance?
Yup. it's true.
iPhone 8, iPhone X vs Android flagships: Speed tests say it's not even close
By Liam Tung | September 19, 2017 -- 10:54 GMT (03:54 PDT)Apple's new A11 Bionic chip is by far the highest-performing system on the market.
Image: Geekbench, Primate Labs
As Apple boasted when unveiling its 64-bit, six-core A11 Bionic, the new SoC would blow away the performance of the A10, which powers the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus.
That claim has now been confirmed in official results for the A11's performance on Primate Labs' Geekbench iOS benchmarks, which were updated today with official measurements for the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X, which were probably submitted by reviewers.
There's a minor difference in single-core and multicore performance between the three new iPhones, but all three have a massive lead over top-performing Android phones, which are led by Samsung's Galaxy S8 with either its own Exynos octa-core chip or Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835, and Huawei's Honor V9 with its HiSilicon Kirin 960.
The three new iPhones all have a massive lead over top-performing Android phones, which are led by Samsung's Galaxy S8, here in the multicore test.
Image: Geekbench, Primate Labs
The iOS single-core benchmark shows that the iPhone X, iPhone 8, and iPhone 8 Plus, have scores between 4,204 and 4,181.
The iPhone 8 Plus leads on the multicore benchmark with a score of 10,078, followed closely by the iPhone 8 and iPhone X with scores of 10,065 and 9,955, respectively.
As noted by Apple Insider, a fair comparison is between the A10-powered iPhone 7 and A-11 powered iPhone 8, which share similar specs besides the chip.
The results indicate that the A11 is about 25 percent faster on the single-core test and 80 percent faster in a multicore comparison. And these benchmarks don't even account for the iPhone 8's new Apple-designed GPU, which Apple suggests gives the new iPhone a 30-percent performance lead in graphics over the A10's GPU. http://www.zdnet.com/article/iphone-8-iphone-x-vs-android-flagships-speed-tests-say-its-not-even-close/:869:
Android benchmarks meanwhile top out at 1965 on a measure of single-core performance, while multicore scores don't exceed 6,494. The Galaxy S8 with Samsung's Exynos 8895 octa-core chip lead on both measures.
On single-core performance, the lowly iPhone SE with an A9 chip outranks Samsung's Galaxy S8 on Geekbench.
While Apple has carved out a long lead in performance with its chips,
No, it doesn't. The data is not an image and remains on the device. Quit making up lies. Thesarcasm switch doesn't let you off the FUD spreading list.
Haven't you heard? Apple already manufactures iMacs and Mac Pros in the USA. The were starting the process of building multibillion dollar factories in the US before Trump won the Republican nomination and FoxConn, Apple's primary contract manufacturer is locating a multibillion plant in Wisconsin. What other Consumer Electronic Company is doing anything similar?
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