The iPhone 6 Review
by Joshua Ho, Brandon Chester, Chris Heinonen & Ryan Smith on September 30, 2014 8:01 AM EST- Posted in
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CPU Performance
Now that we have a good idea of what the A8 SoC looks like, we can talk about performance. While we covered this in the preliminary article, it’s worth going over again. For those that are unfamiliar with our test suite the CPU-based tests are mostly browser-based benchmarks. Once again, although I’m not quite happy with the state of benchmarking things we’re getting close to a more platform-agnostic solution.
For the most part, the A8 SoC performs admirably despite the relatively low (1.38 GHz) frequency and half the cores when compared to competing SoCs. It seems that this is mostly building upon the lead that A7's Cyclone CPUs began. It remains to be seen if other SoC manufacturers will catch up in their CPU architecture at one point or another (NVIDIA's Project Denver in particular is interesting), but for now Apple seems to be quite far in the lead in CPU performance.
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blackcrayon - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
Is that why the iPhone 5s still holds its own near the top even in *Offscreen* graphics tests? Read the review again.doobydoo - Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - link
'The main reason for the GPU (and even some CPU cases) dominance is the low resolution screen'Nope. Offscreen tests. Most CPU tests not affected at all by resolution.
Rapha.194 - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
Team Anandtech Joshua Ho, Brandon Chester, Chris Heinonen & Ryan Smith.What is the daily phone you?
cheinonen - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
I use an iPhone 6 (disclosure: I've bought every phone I use, none are review samples). Before that I used an iPhone 5, an iPhone 4, an iPhone 3G, and a Treo 650. When I started with the iPhone 3G there wasn't a great other option and I've had no reason to leave. I could tweak an Android phone more, but there isn't something I need my iPhone to do that it doesn't do at this point.Teeeeeeeeee - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
I had heard there is a change to the vibrator for mute with this release. Did you try checking strength of vibration or audibility or the vibrating motor? I also didn't see comparisons of the selfie camera quality. Did you compare quality of the Touch ID or other scanners for speed and accuracy? I found the new iPhone 6 has good low light sensors for stuff like photographing around bright objects like trying to photograph marquee lights, maybe try photographing a sparkler or a store front at night where you want sharp bright edges and still able to see darker objects, got much better night pics this year, such as pics of illuminated Chyrsler building and Times Square ball, so surprised you didn't show as much difference with 5S as my pics last year were much more white blobs of brightness when pointed at bright sources at night last year.Teeeeeeeeee - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
Have you noticed any speed differences in air drop for 5S versus 6/6+? I had heard it may have improved, seems much quicker than regular wifi over a internet connection, would like to see some info on how fast it really is...tipoo - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
So, what's with the iPhone 5 with that godly random write score?Kristian Vättö - Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - link
We are working on explaining that. Its random read speed, in turn, is horrible, so it is likely just a matter of read/write optimization. I hope to have a more thorough explanation soon.darkich - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
I'm really surprised you haven't noticed something very off going on in the Basemark X benchmark with iPhone 6 plus, because there's simply no way it could have the same onscreen results as the iPhone 6.That being said, a great review!
Heck, reading thorough phone reviews on here has a certain stress relieving effects in my case
Hxx - Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - link
my Sennheiser ocx 685i impedance is 16 ohm does that mean they will sound like *** on max volume? And I thought these are among the most common ones for running etc.