VRing

To give everyone an idea of performance based on Samsung's claims:

Apple A10 (iPhone 7 Plus)

-Geekbench Single Core: 3,438
-Geekbench Multi Core: 5,723
-3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (Metal): 1,986

Exynos 8895 (Galaxy S8)

-Geekbench Single Core: 1,956
-Geekbench Multi Core: 6,432
-3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (OpenGL): 3,142

Apple A11 (iPhone X)

-Geekbench Single Core: 4,203
-Geekbench Multi Core: 10,103
-3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (Metal): 2,691

Exynos 9810 (expected performance)

-Geekbench Single Core: 3,912 (2x performance increase)
-Geekbench Multi Core: 9,005 (1.4x performance increase)
-3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (OpenGL): 3,770 (1.2x performance increase)

Geekbench values: https://browser.geekbench.com/
3DMark values: https://www.futuremark.com/hardware/mobile

It looks like Samsung will extend their graphics lead and start approaching Apple in single core and multi core performance. It's clear that Apple has a decent lead in CPU performance.

georgie01 said:

VRing said:

racerhomie3 said:

It’s pretty pathetic that my $350 32GB iPhone SE is visibly faster than the $1000 Note 8

No it's not.

Those video tests are interesting but are less conclusive than geekbench tests. How many people use their phone like that? I suspect we’re talking about less than 1%.

The times in real life usage where an app reloads marginally faster on the Note8 will be counteracted many times by the fact that the iPhone is a faster phone overall with a considerably faster processor. Even something simple like the significantly faster JavaScript engine in Safari will benefit the user regularly and isn’t shown in that test.

You're missing the takeaway here. A user claims that the iPhone SE with the Apple A9 is "visibly" faster than the Note 8. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of this method of testing.

One thing I will mention is that web browsing is in fact just as fast on a Note 8 as an iPhone 8 Plus/X. Another area that a lot of people seem to forget is your connectivity speeds. On regular LTE, the Note 8 will download twice as fast. On gigabit LTE, the Note 8 can download around three to four times faster.

magman1979 said:

VRing said:

racerhomie3 said:

It’s pretty pathetic that my $350 32GB iPhone SE is visibly faster than the $1000 Note 8

No it's not.

Oh Jesus, another idiot troll bringing up that stupid video!!! People that use this to try and defend the Note 8 are such tools!!!

So you're calling the author an "idiot troll" for using a "stupid video" in his article? 

For that matter, the user quoted claimed the iPhone SE was "visibly" faster than the Note 8. That's clearly not the case.

racerhomie3 said:

VRing said:

racerhomie3 said:

It’s pretty pathetic that my $350 32GB iPhone SE is visibly faster than the $1000 Note 8

No it's not.

I did it with my friends phone.With the latest 11.2.1 OS.
Plus SE is smaller than 8 Plus.
Plus Android slows down as you use it.

No proof of your claims and more nonsense. 

By the same anecdote, I've seen the iPhone 8 Plus (A11) run "visible" circles around the iPhone SE (A9).

jkichline said:

That’s it! It’s really simple. Make blocks. Make lots of them. Make the blocks work together seamlessly. Add hardware-level security like in the iMac Pro. Open up developer kits for PCI hardware developers. It’s pretty simple!

Sounds like Razer's modular computer:





It's interesting as an idea, but in reality I don't think the modular concept would work very well. You'd likely end up with higher costs and compromise to the performance of the components.

Marvin said:

Fitting 11TFLOPs of compute power into an iMac and sustaining around 70 degrees at full load is a good achievement.

Only the iMac Pro with Vega 64 outputs 11 TFLOPS (this is due to it running downclocked). The model tested was with the Vega 56. While it did maintain 70 degrees, it also dropped 10 percent of its performance in 15 minutes at load.

To ensure that this performance loss wasn't due to limited CPU power going to the graphics benchmark, we monitored the percentage of CPU performance Unigine Heaven was receiving. In both the isolated graphics test and simultaneous CPU and GPU benchmarks Unigine was receiving the same 5 percent to 7 percent of processing power, meaning that a 10 percent lower score is likely from the graphics chip throttling itself in order to keep the system from getting too hot.