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iPhone 8 Is World's Fastest Phone (It's Not Even Close)
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Youth Crew
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The 8.
It's worth remembering with eight core CPUs that it either means four high power and four low power or eight low power. It never means eight high power and apart from short bursts they can't run all eight that fast when used together.
As for why they have eight it's mostly marketing
Maintenance
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Where's that one dude/dudette that stans the Galaxy on OT? I always recall the same person doing it, this news must be hard.
Bubba_Sparks
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What do they mean when they say Apple designed GPU? Do they have their own architecture now, or are they still on PowerVR?
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More efficient chips help with that tho
And for the first time, Apple has made their phones a little thicker and heavier. They arent as steadfastly compromising battery size for thinness anymore
These phones will have a longer lifespan that's for sure. Who knows? Maybe Apple will keep them updated for a lot longer than normal.
Previous chips had customized PowerVR GPUs but this one is all Apple.
own architecture. they killed the deal with Imagination earlier this year. People wondered if the existing licensing would extend to 8/X but by the iPhone event apple announced that it was an apple developed GPU. There was an Imagination lawsuit where they basically alleged that there is no way apple could develop their own GPU without infringing on some of IT's patents... but I don't know what happened with that.
Bubba_Sparks
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That is really interesting! Do we know anything about it?
Imperial Hot
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To me... these crazy spec jumps on this AXX chips year after year is Apple laying the groundwork for switching to these chips in the Mac, right?
Not much. I think they described it as 3 cores but other than that I think we have to wait for chipworks or whoever to get their hands on one and decap it.
Personally I don't see the point for Macs. iPads on the other hand are a much better option.
Remember when Tim Cook said the iPad Pro could replace your laptop? That might actually be possible for the vast majority of consumers in the not too distant future. They have most of the hardware, now they just need the software.
Run increasingly bloated version of iOS, of course.
Takamura-San
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How much is the lack of performance due to Android not working well with the hardware available?
The Real Napsta
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Lol
I hope not, but probably so.
Aggregate takes into account the CPU performance.
I don't think this is about software. This is just the speed of hardware. I believe they can measure this pretty objectively.
Also so weird to see phone wars where people arguing against CPU advancements.
nah. stock android is pretty lightweight. this more comes to apple developing the OS, compiler and silicon in tandem, along with years back poaching the best silicon talent in the industry.
It is a Retina HD display, thank you very much. Human eyes can't even see past 300ppi.
Ok. The ISU graphics score on the 7 plus is 62k and on the 8 plus its 110k.
It isn't, just look at the Pixel.
Apple has just done a great job of becoming a company that primarily makes iOS devices.
I think a lot of the performance gains on the iPhone 8 is because Apple is designing every single part. But Im no expert. Either way, this is great news for two reasons:
*Its impressive as hell and shows that Apple will push the benchmark for performance
*its just going to make companies like Google, Samsung, etc more competitive and improve Android devices even more.
Im curious if well ever see these chips in MacBooks and if Intel is worried.
Good lord.
This gets me excited since I just got a drone that shoots in 4K and want a quicker way of editing videos than going through Premiere.
What file type are they using?
Sling shot extreme unlimited are much closer. ISU is kinda old now.
Takamura-San
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Then why isn't the pixel being used in this comparison ? Would it do that much better ?
Didnt say, but one would assume an h.264 MP4
thesoapster
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Impressive, as usual. Still not a fan of a number of aspects of the software, so I'm keeping my Android phone (for now).
It says the video was from a drone, so most likely MP4.
The Pixel is using older hardware compared to the S8 and Note 8. Plus the whole deal about the Pixel is that it's really optimized vs most Android phones which typically aren't. Samsung's phones are famous for their bloatware.
Even then, if we're talking CPU benchmarks it's probably be a similar result with the Pixel 2 since it's the same hardware.
Id be pretty keen to be able to dock an iPhone or iPad and get a mini OSX on a monitor with keyboard and mouse support
Oh so if we cherry pick we can reduce the performance gain to only 22%. SSEU on the 7 is 3115 graphics score and the 8 is 3802.
ValkyrUser
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God, my iPhone 6 Plus is so ancient now.
Apple reported 30%. Im inclined to believe them.
They always say up to. A 22% bump is pretty good.
Yeah theyll be jerks and come out with new features that require more processing power. The nerve those folks have!
They still aren't. All phone manufacturers are robbing you with their margins.
The iPhone X is probably the best example of that. Apple couldn't get a great deal on the displays since Samsung makes 90% of OLED displays, so you get to pay the price.
Uno Venova
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iPhones usually spank other phones in performance, guess the gap is getting even bigger.
Interesting to see the downplay of 'it's good but almost too good to be necessary'
If it's the same price as other flagships and performing better, it's obviously noteworthy.
Interesting to see the downplay of 'it's good but almost too good to be necessary'
If it's the same price as other flagships and performing better, it's obviously noteworthy.
For me I wanted the dual cameras and a bigger screen but dont want the size and weight of a plus
Im borrowing an s8 at the moment and the lack of bezels isnt just about more screen - it brings the content closer to you and pushes the phone into the background. I think its a big step forward like when we got laminated screens