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  • Apple's iPhone shipments 'likely' to fall below 200M in 2016, insider says

    cnocbui said:
    proline said:
    I think he's off base this time. Nobody has seen what a "dual camera system" can do, but adding this or that to the spec sheet is not what drives iPhone demand. Furthermore, the iPhone 7 is 5 months away, which means competitors won't beat it by much- I don't know many people who would switch to Lenovo just because the latter's camera was slightly better for a few weeks. As for the SE, it's a good phone at a good price point- it obviously isn't going to outsell the flagship iPhone 7s, but that doesn't mean there won't be an uptick in sales from it.
    LG G5 has a dual camera.



    The Huawei P9 also uses a dual camera setup:


    irelandcnocbui
  • Shootout: Apple's new 9.7" iPad Pro vs. iPad Air 2


    At its core -- literally -- the Pro is simply speedier. It features an A9X processor, a leap over the A8X used in the Air 2. Apple claims that the chip's CPU performance is 1.8 times faster, and that graphics should be up to twice as fast.

    It should be pointed out however that the A9X in the 9.7-inch Pro is actually slightly slower than the one in the 12.9-inch version. The tablet also has just 2 gigabytes of RAM, which is equal to the Air 2, but half that of the 12.9-inch Pro.


    That doesn't appear to be the case.

    Looking at the SoC performance of each device in GFXBench 3.0 - Manhattan Offscreen:

    iPad Pro 12.9 (Metal) - 5017 Frames (80.9 FPS)
    iPad Pro 9.7 (Metal) - 3117 Frames (51.1 FPS)
    iPad Air 2 (Metal) - 2695 Frames (43.8 FPS)

    Source: https://gfxbench.com/result.jsp

    cash907censored
  • Hands on: Apple takes aim at PC users with 9.7" iPad Pro

    AI2xxx said:
    GFXBench is a mess for Intel and x86 in general. It uses OpenGL for Windows devices as well, stay very clear of that (also Manhattan Offscreen says 86.5 FPS, Manhattan 3.1 says 34.1 FPS). To make things even stranger, in the Car Chase Offscreen (GFXBench 4.0) which looks at features such as tessellation, the core m chip scores 230.8 FPS. According to the same benchmark, the HD 6000 in the MacBook Air scores 25 FPS in Manhatten Offscreen which would make it a little more powerful than an iPhone 6. So again, stay clear!

    Yes, Vulkan 1.0 launched this past February.

    Of course it needed a fan, it was 2 generations old on a 22 nm process. Why would that be a surprise? Price difference was ~$200 for the entry i5 model ($999), but that also doubled the SSD size from the i3 model ($799). The core m and recent U series chips are a new direction for Intel in terms of bringing higher end parts to lower TDP levels. You also keep talking about 'parity' with benchmarks that can't even compare these devices properly. 
    1) you brought up gfxbench, not I.
    2) Entry i5 model does NOT double the ssd size of the m3 model. They both have 128gb of storage.



    Also so where and *I* talking about parity with anything? It seems to me that you're projecting your salt over the guy who wrote the article onto me. I only said that it was remarkable that the iPad pro performed nearly as well in a graphics test. Last I checked, that's in terms of being able to put pictures on a screen. You can't compare the Xbox to a PlayStation 'properly' but I can look at bayonets for the PS3 and bayonets for the 360 and say that the 360 version is better. How it got to be better is irrelivent. My point is that it is impressive that you can take a device, which is, in actuality a small board the size of a finger when you strip away the screen and battery, and have a device that can produce results that are even part of the conversation. That was it.
    I brought up GFXBench to show the score between 3 iPad's with a mobile benchmark made with Metal in mind.

    I'm talking about the launch prices for the Surface Pro 3, clearly. There is no "i3" version of the Surface Pro 4. Just another case of you not taking the time to actually read my posts.

    "The mere fact that the iPad pro scores on par with the i3 surface pro in that test is pretty remarkable." - Your words.

    Why are you talking about an Xbox and a Playstation? You're trying to compare mobile benchmarks commonly used for ARM devices, not designed for modern x86 hardware.

    I have no clue what you're talking about with "the size of your finger". All of these chips are small.
    cnocbui
  • Hands on: Apple takes aim at PC users with 9.7" iPad Pro

    Nope.

    GFXBench 3.0 - Manhattan Offscreen:

    iPad Pro 12.9 (Metal) - 5017 Frames (80.9 FPS)
    iPad Pro 9.7 (Metal) - 3117 Frames (51.1 FPS)
    iPad Air 2 (Metal) - 2695 Frames (43.8 FPS)

    Source: https://gfxbench.com/result.jsp
    Fine, compare those scores to this then...

    https://gfxbench.com/device.jsp?benchmark=gfx40&os=Windows&api=gl&cpu-arch=x86&hwtype=iGPU&hwname=Intel(R)%20HD%20Graphics%20515&did=26463104&D=Intel(R)%20Core(TM)%20m3-6Y30%20CPU%20with%20HD%20Graphics%20515

    You know, since that's the configuration of the m3 surface pro 4.

    Manhattan offscreen: 31.4 fps if I'm reading that correctly.


    Is Vulkan out yet?

    also, it doesn't matter that it scored 'considerably lower' than the U series on the surface pro 3 when you consider the price difference and the fact that the i5 NEEDS fans in order to stay cool. You can keep that noise.

    GFXBench is a mess for Intel and x86 in general. It uses OpenGL for Windows devices as well, stay very clear of that (also Manhattan Offscreen says 86.5 FPS, Manhattan 3.1 says 34.1 FPS). To make things even stranger, in the Car Chase Offscreen (GFXBench 4.0) which looks at features such as tessellation, the core m chip scores 230.8 FPS. According to the same benchmark, the HD 6000 in the MacBook Air scores 25 FPS in Manhatten Offscreen which would make it a little more powerful than an iPhone 6. So again, stay clear!

    Yes, Vulkan 1.0 launched this past February.

    Of course it needed a fan, it was 2 generations old on a 22 nm process. Why would that be a surprise? Price difference was ~$200 for the entry i5 model ($999), but that also doubled the SSD size from the i3 model ($799). The core m and recent U series chips are a new direction for Intel in terms of bringing higher end parts to lower TDP levels. You also keep talking about 'parity' with benchmarks that can't even compare these devices properly. 
    cnocbui
  • Hands on: Apple takes aim at PC users with 9.7" iPad Pro


    Apple's original 12.9 inch iPad Pro ... but now the same power and capabilities are available in a more compact, highly mobile package for $200 less.
    Nope.

    GFXBench 3.0 - Manhattan Offscreen:

    iPad Pro 12.9 (Metal) - 5017 Frames (80.9 FPS)
    iPad Pro 9.7 (Metal) - 3117 Frames (51.1 FPS)
    iPad Air 2 (Metal) - 2695 Frames (43.8 FPS)

    Source: https://gfxbench.com/result.jsp
    bb-15cnocbui1983