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nunzy said:

iPhone is better than Samescam? What a surprise. Not.

That's not what the words in the article conclude, for the majority of tests...

Another leading edge fab down. The drop in competitors is both remarkable and not just a little disheartening, capitalism got us this far, but after, it's going to be...Interesting. Everything consolidates or dies. 

Ah. Airpods 2 was what I was waiting on to pull the trigger, but I guess I'll wait till the september event just in case. 

foljs said:

Let me repeat this: the performance improveness ("battery smoothness" and so on) concern the OS and UI layers.

It's not like the CPU got magically faster for the benchmark code to run faster. 

It's the UI drawing + some APIs that have been made faster, and the useless "benchmarks" wont show any of this, as they just run some random benchmark code.

It seems like Geekbench did get marginally faster with the latest betas (not just me, several tests showed this, probably from the faster processor speed shifting) to be fair, but in principle I agree with you. People are trying to test the speed with benchmarks, but where it really shows is in-use testing, switching between apps and such, not low level benchmarks which are by nature supposed to remove the OS from the equation. 

SemiAccurate, for whatever their reputation is worth (so...Mound of salt, here), is staking their reputation on a 50% increase per core. Now that would be a mighty impressive feat, given that they're already up there with Intel size execution windows, but given the density, power, and clock speed improvements of the 7nm fab, maybe, if all those things were used towards peak power...


Hoping the iPads go the A12X route, finally being in line with the iPhone processor core launches, while still being higher power/higher bandwidth/more cores. The rumored 3+5 core sounds scary for the Intel U series.