Adreno-powered Nexus 6, Galaxy Note 4 deliver poor graphics performance vs. iPhone 6 Plus

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  • Reply 41 of 151
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    Originally Posted by Corrections View Post

     



    Nexus 6 is essentially the same as a Droid Turbo. Want to bet your nuts on a "hopeful prediction" that it performs any better than the other Motorola phone with the same screen resolution, same processor, same software and developed by the same company? Here let me get you a pair of scissors. 


    iphone 6 is the same as galaxy s3...welcome to the club finally.

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  • Reply 42 of 151
    rogifan wrote: »
    I thought Apple (and Apple users) didn't care about specs.

    They don't. This is AppleInsider.
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  • Reply 43 of 151
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    There is no test of that phone either.


     

    Well, there's this one, which shows multicore parity performance with iPhone 6, but losing out big on single core: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Motorola-Droid-TurboQuark-XT1254-benchmarks-leak-out-coming-October-28th-on-Verizon_id61699

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  • Reply 44 of 151
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Corrections View Post

     



    Nexus 6 is essentially the same as a Droid Turbo. Want to bet your nuts on a "hopeful prediction" that it performs any better than the other Motorola phone with the same screen resolution, same processor, same software and developed by the same company? Here let me get you a pair of scissors. 




    Can you ever post anything without making some snide comment Prince?

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  • Reply 45 of 151
    A lot of Android haters on this thread--since Apple's OS has only 19% of the global smartphone market, I guess not everyone loves the iPhone.
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  • Reply 46 of 151
    A lot of Android haters on this thread--since Apple's OS has only 19% of the global smartphone market, I guess not everyone loves the iPhone.
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  • Reply 47 of 151
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    So sad to see such a young man be so bitter. You sound like the old men I knew in my youth that were still bitter that the Dodgers left Brooklyn some 30 years later.



    You're very intelligent, but your constant condescending tone to people here is juvenile. Grow up, and learn some diplomacy.

    He should but he won't as it's his m.o. He went after John Gruber in a hissy-fit a while back after Gruber dared to write something critical of DED/Corrections/McLean:

     

    http://tracks.ranea.org/post/524619951/dan-dilger-exploding-head

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  • Reply 48 of 151
    gatorguygatorguy Posts: 24,769member
    maestro64 wrote: »
    Assuming the service providers allow the update, I am on an 18 month old Android on 4.1 and Google and AT&T both say it eligible to upgrade to 4.4, has it happen hell no AT&T has not approved the upgrade and they problem never will since it means I could use the phone longer and they does not help the Android manufactures. This is where Apple has won all the way around the service providers have not say so when you can upgrade an apple product.
    I don't think Nexus device owners wait for carriers to roll out OS updates. Those are the only ones I was referring to.
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  • Reply 49 of 151
    The spec-obsessed Fandroids will lose their collective shiz over this. Just before they start making lame excuses or trumpet wallpaper widgets.
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  • Reply 50 of 151
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    I don't think Nexus device owners wait for carriers to roll out OS updates. Those are the only ones I was referring to.

     

    Yep. That's one of the reasons I'm staying Nexus or Google Play Edition. There's talk now of the S5 going GPE, removing most of what I dislike about that phone (skins and delayed OS updates).

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  • Reply 51 of 151
    I'm an apple user and a Samsung user too and I enjoy both devices though I'm not much into smart phones but I think it's too poor of you to be so biased. the note 3 is fast and does everything I like (including multi window) perfectly and so the iPhone. I don't care how fast other latest phones will be. how fast these devices are is enough for anyone's liking regardless of jealousy or hatred. post strictly on Apple and be JUST, people will have no doubt in visiting your site. not by trying to tarnish other flagships images simply because you're being paid or you can't resist the jealousy, or because you hate the fact that you see what you can't have. habit of all Apple users. and whenever an iPhone has much clarity or whatever, y'all will stfu and be happy. same thing on large screen, after the hype critics, now y'all are dying for it.
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  • Reply 52 of 151
    I'm an apple user and a Samsung user too and I enjoy both devices though I'm not much into smart phones but I think it's too poor of you to be so biased. the note 3 is fast and does everything I like (including multi window) perfectly and so the iPhone. I don't care how fast other latest phones will be. how fast these devices are is enough for anyone's liking regardless of jealousy or hatred. post strictly on Apple and be JUST, people will have no doubt in visiting your site. not by trying to tarnish other flagships images simply because you're being paid or you can't resist the jealousy, or because you hate the fact that you see what you can't have. habit of all Apple users. and whenever an iPhone has much clarity or whatever, y'all will stfu and be happy. same thing on large screen, after the hype critics, now y'all are dying for it.
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  • Reply 53 of 151
    v900v900 Posts: 101member
    kkerst wrote: »
    There are so many variables here that contribute to performance it's hard to even know where to begin.

    It's hard to know where to begin, because what you just wrote is a bunch of bull.
    If three phones (say: Note 4, Nexus 6 and Droid Turbo) have the same SOC and the same version of Android, they'd perform within 5% of each other if you average the benchmarks.
    (Heck, even with somewhat dif. versions of Android, they'll be close to each other!)

    Running the same SOC means same CPU, GPU, memory, IO system and 95 out of 100 times also the same drivers. You can almost always add the same Qualcomm radio to the not very diverse mix.

    The (relatively) minor changes something like Touchwiz makes only has minor impact on performance. And won't do much to affect benchmark averages, if the reviewer does even a half assed job.


    And BTW: From my experience with several generations of Android flagships, the problem isn't Touchwiz and other launchers. (And Touchwiz did less to performance than other skins/overlays.)

    The problem is Android.

    Sure, Samsung might have dressed it up, and made it look different.

    But a turd is a turd even if Samsung spray paints it a different color and gives it a little hat. And Android is a turd in my experience. (Though granted, the latest Android 5.0 might be slightly less of a turd. I haven't tested it myself, but I'm really not hopeful after year after year of listening to Googles tired refrain of "THAT issue? Oh don't worry, it'll be fixed in the next version. I know we said that last version, but trust us, it will!")
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  • Reply 54 of 151
    He should but he won't as it's his m.o. He went after John Gruber in a hissy-fit a while back after Gruber dared to write something critical of DED/Corrections/McLean:

    http://tracks.ranea.org/post/524619951/dan-dilger-exploding-head
    Now that explains a lot!
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  • Reply 55 of 151
    Higher resolution display runs slower than lower resolution display? Wow who would have predicted that. Oh wait.
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  • Reply 56 of 151
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    Originally Posted by Corrections View Post

     



    Nexus 6 is essentially the same as a Droid Turbo. Want to bet your nuts on a "hopeful prediction" that it performs any better than the other Motorola phone with the same screen resolution, same processor, same software and developed by the same company? Here let me get you a pair of scissors. 


     

    I'd take that bet.  Lollipop will be much better optimized than Kit Kat, so the Nexus 6 will perform better than any other equivalently specced device.  Will it be able to compensate entirely for the 2K screen?  Probably not.  But you're lying by acting like it won't make a difference.  Your journalism reeks of desperation.

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  • Reply 57 of 151
    gtr wrote: »
    Who cares about specs?

    What about that name!

    Google blew me away when they finally revealed "L" to be "Lollipop".

    Nobody is as innovative as them.

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    He sells as fast a hog can chew his corn
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    All heard what sister Johnson said
    She always takes a candy stick to bed
    Don't stand close to the candy man
    He'll leave a big candy stick in your hand
    He sold some candy to sister Bad
    The very next day she took all he had
    If you try his candy, good friend of mine
    You sure will want it for a long long time
    His stick candy don't melt away
    It just gets better, so the ladies say




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  • Reply 58 of 151
    Brad Molen's iOS 8 review smelled like a hack job, now it's confirmed, he's a Fandroid. Engadget's quality's been dropping like a rock lately, shame The Verge similarly stinks. I expect Anandtech to also drop now that Anand is gone.
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  • Reply 59 of 151
    Dan_Dilgerdan_dilger Posts: 1,584member
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    He should but he won't as it's his m.o. He went after John Gruber in a hissy-fit a while back after Gruber dared to write something critical of DED/Corrections/McLean:

     


     

    You write long tirades expressing your hatred and contempt for someone, then turn around and feign outrage when one of your fellow trolls gets corrected down after making a false personal attack. 

     

    Clearly, when you apologized for being a terrible person in AI comments you were being phony. Zero respect for that sort of hypocrisy.

     

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    Can you ever post anything without making some snide comment Prince?


     

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  • Reply 60 of 151
    Wonder how long wife has to wait to get her Note 3 on Lollipop?
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