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.
LOL!
Pretty much in denial about the disadvantages of swapping memory into storage, vs the readily available extra storage that 6 gigabytes give to memory intensive apps and which is also available for running more apps and larger apps without having to swap in and out of “external” storage. I know what the heck I’m talking about because I know what swapping chunks of code and files into and out of storage entails, mostly because I have had to do that kind of swapping in and out in order to get programs and files to “fit” into the limited available main memory. It doesn’t matter how fast the cores are, the swapping WILL make apps and usage of the phone slower than on a device which affords apps more main memory to work. BTw, the reason I know is because I’ve been a programmer and systems analyst and project manager and have worked on all kinds of platforms, including mainframes to “mini-computers” and desktops/laptops and even smartphones/tablets.
I don’t need to own every smartphone ever made, or even use every smartphone ever made, in order to understand how apps/applications and OSes work.
I don’t own Apple because it never made any sense to me to be tied down and depend on any one company for everything from beginning to end. Walled-gardens is not what any developer should ever be involved in, and only the parent company of a PC or phone would be the biggest beneficiary. There might be some advantages to having to depend on only one platform for everything, but there are a lot more advantages to not having to depend on a single platform for the “rest of your life”.
And, the biggest reason that I don’t own Apple (though I’ve owned a couple of Macs along the way, and my daughter and husband own iPhones and iPads), is because I don’t like paying high prices for my stuff, and I could easily pay less and sometimes a lot less, for equivalent tech by other makers; and that is why I won’t own the iPhone 8 or iPhone X or Samsung’s latest phones. The smartphones I’ve owned have come from different makers, and the latest is the LG V20, which is pretty nice and still has most of the features that are “new” to the iPhone 8/X.
When it comes to VR, okay, let’s welcome Apple to the party, though kind of late to it. And, Apple is not talking about VR, but about AR, which there is a difference between the two, in case you didn’t know. And, in the field of AR, it’s Microsoft which has been the leader in that area, and Samsung and Google and now Apple, are following.
And, yeah, if “no one” has had the iPhone 8/X available for testing, then, even those tests that you quote from, are suspect too, aren’t they? The true tests will come when the regular consumer is able to purchase them, so, until then, your are just being fanatical about something that even you have not gotten your hands on.
And, the specs on the Samsung Note 8 are still superior to what the iPhone 8 and X offer. And, Samsung should get the credit for the most visible and most used part of the iPhone X.
And, again, processor speed is mostly irrelevant when the difference between processing and presenting on a screen is so minor that people won’t ever notice. The processor speed is just a marketing gimmick used to score points during presentations.
BTW, a smartphone (or any other device) is just as fast as its slowest component, which means that, the component most used is the screen and it’s the USER that determines how fast information is attained and presented and absorbed. One billionth of a second difference in the internal processing, will NEVER be noticed by any user. GET IT???