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.
No, the unlocking has to be intentional. Photos or even 3D representations of your face don't work. It has to be your face and you have to look at it with your eyes open with the intention of unlocking the iOS device with FaceID operational, otherwise it will not unlock.
It's the seamless ecosystem, Neidermeyer, not the "access suite."
Written by a writer who has never even touched or used an iPhone X. . . he hangs his recommendation on the Samsung device having, wait for it. . . a stylus to do things the iPhone doesn't require one to do. He also touts the slightly more resolution of the screen that no human eye can discern, being that it is biologically impossible for the human eye to resolve such small pixels at the distance one uses a smartphone. . . and just dismisses the far faster processors in the iPhones by saying "Apple says" they are faster while accepting at face value Samsung's claims its processor is fast enough to do what it needs to do smoothly. LOL!
Oh, yes. You won't even notice you made or answer them. You'll just suddenly know intuitively what the call was about. (grin)
So why are the Note 8's cores being blown away in actual practice by the iPhones core, no matter how many for the past six years in all the tests? Usually the reasons is because Android can only use two of their processor's cores with any efficiency and the rest sit idle.
Really? The first iPhones were released in 2007. The first HTC Evo came out three years later in 2010. Your claim of comparing an HTC Evo to the first iPhone and the HTC EVO had a "much nicer display" is completely BOGUS.
The iPhone on release had a larger display at 3.5" diagonal with more colors (262,144) than ANY OTHER SMARTPHONE ON THE MARKET! Plus it was the only multitouch screen on the market. In 2007, HTC was still primarily making cell phones for other brands, including Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, HP/Compaq, i-mate, Krome, O2, Palm, Sharp Corporation, and UTStarcom. HTC also manufactures ultra-mobile PCs, and is also the manufacturer of the Nexus One and Nexus 9,, but not under their own name brand until much later. In October 2008, HTC released the HTC Dream smartphone under their own name in the USA running a Windows Phone 6 OS and then switched it to a an Android OS. HTC is credited with making the first Android cell phone. . . but it was years after the iPhone was on the market.
Yeah, and as a result of their bowing to the gods of fashion:
No phone has ever performed worse than the Galaxy S8 in SquareTrade’s drop test
It was even worse later for the Note 8.
It’s the seamless ecosystem....
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You’re married to it then,,, I guess that explains the irrational attachment. I had an iPod that I gave away when Apple tried to handcuff me to iTunes and eliminate drag and drop which was faster , more convenient and didn’t force me to buy the “White Album” AGAIN when I already had it on cd.
> Yup. it's true.
I'm afraid to ask where my trusty iPhone 5c ranks on that chart.
Wait, no I'm not!
"Where does my trusty iPhone 5c rank on that chart?"
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.
So, are these other companies lying in ruins? What about heat running six cores at once?
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What about battery life?
No, but any benchmark has some of that in it. Most benchmarks have to do with how well does the device move memory around. . . The faster they do it, the better they are at manipulating data.
“The first iPhones were released in 2007. The first HTC Evo came out three years later in 2010. Your claim of comparing an HTC Evo to the first iPhone and the HTC EVO had a “much nicer display” is completely BOGUS.”
So much for your bedside manner.
If Apple pays you, first they should send you to charm school.
$1,000 for a phone is way too much.
I'm neither a doctor nor paid by Apple and when you post a blatantly BOGUS claim like you just did, you can expect to be called on something as false as that. It was untrue, and provably so. It added NOTHING factual to this discussion but you piped in with your falsehood anyway. You've posted it before as I recall, and were called on it then as well. You want a Freep name of Truth_seeker, then post the truth, not made up tales that are easily shot down.
How much radiation do these chips produce?
5G is already a health issue.
You see the border of the screen? Somewhere below that. GRIN.
Single core: 671
Multi-core: 1180
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.
Thanks for the info bro.
I guess AAPL will have to mark you down as “undecided.”Hurricane relief might be a better place to put that much money, I agree.
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