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ericthehalfbee said:

AppleExposed said:

Witbe said:

Qualcomm has done a wonderful job. I totally sense why this article is written. I am eagarly waiting for new devices with snapdragon 855. Would like to see comparison with iphone XS.

Won't even come close.

It’ll very likely come close or match in certain tests. It might even beat the A12 in something. And those results will be cherry-picked and talked about as if they’re the most important.

A12 will easily beat the 855 overall. 

Madtiger said:

Any Night Sight with moving subjects?  It’s good for stationary things...a little soft because AI has to compensate for handshake.  But how about moving subjects, which is more important?

magman1979 said:

clarker99 said:

As a XS Max user, I am pleasantly surprised given that the Pixel camera is very highly regarded.

I am interested to see the XR vs. Pixel 3 XL comparison. 

The Pixel line of phones, the 3 XL included, is only highly regarded by paid-off tech media shills and YouTubers who don't have a fucking clue what they're talking about. Google was caught red-handed during their keynote of the Pixel 3 XL putting up a photo from it vs the XS Max that was obviously fake to make themselves look better, and now is proven with these real-world tests.

ericthehalfbee said:

It's hilarious reading some of the comments on various sites that have linked to the Anandtech article.

People are going absolutely apeshit over this. It's amazing how pissed off people are getting that Apple has designed such an amazing processor and how far ahead they are compared to everyone else.

Wow. The A12 was really undersold by Apple’s own marketing department. It really is quite the beast.

I’m going to guess the SD855 is going to at least catch up or slightly exceed on the GPU side of things, but for most other areas, Qualcomm seems to be a generation or two behind. The javascripting benchmarks were particularly embarrassing. We’re seeing even the iPhone 6s outperforming flagship android devices released this year.

What is going on in Qualcomm land?

god I would kill for an a12 in an android phone

In order to command the prices & brand recognition Apple has going for it, it has to comprehensively differentiate itself. At all levels. It's working.

Credit to Apple they've improved their sustained performance by 40-80%!

Was disappointed with their claim of only 50% GPU improvement since Apple's claims have usually been of peak performance. But this year they've accounted for sustained performance in their advertising claim

hmlongco said:

gmgravytrain said:

It sound like a bunch of malarkey to me. I can't see any of Apple's A-series SoCs matching an Intel i9 processor in high-end processing. Sure, maybe the A-series can compete against Intel i3s and i5s but that's about as far as it goes.
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I'm just hoping Apple has some mystery SoC that can match a mid-range quad-core or hexacore Intel i7 but that doesn't seem very likely. 

What most people -- including you -- seem to miss is that the performance benchmark matchups we've seen to date are Intel desktop/mobile processors vs Apple's iPhone/iPad A12 processors. And that Apple's A12 performance numbers are constrained by the energy and heat dissipation budgets forced by the iPhone and iPad.

So, today, an A12 can match the processing power of an i5 (and some i7's)... in a PHONE and a TABLET.

Which leads me to wonder what an AXX chip could do installed in a notebook... with a notebook sized-battery and a notebook's larger and active cooling systems???

Or to put it another way. What happens when Apple takes the gloves off?

The performance measurement was run in a synthetic environment (read: bench fan cooling the phones) where we assured thermals wouldn’t be an issue for the 1-2 hours it takes to complete a full suite run.