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iPhone 5 GeekBench Results

Posted by samzenpus on from the the-numbers-are-in dept.

EGSonikku writes "The iPhone 5 has been benchmarked using the GeekBench tool. According to the results, Apple's claim of 2x higher performance over the iPhone 4S seems accurate. The results show the iPhone 5's A6 CPU is dual core and clocked at 1.2GHz, and is paired with 1GB of RAM. Despite the fact that the Samsung Galaxy S3 has a quad core CPU at 1.4GHz, and twice as much RAM, it seems the iPhone 5 is faster than the S3, or any other Android handset." Meanwhile, Samsung has launched a marketing campaign that compares some of the hardware specs and features between the new iPhone 5 and the GS3.

3 of 470 comments (clear)

  1. Re:WGAF? by cheesybagel · · Score: 1, Troll

    Nothing stings Apple sheep rabid downmodders like the truth. Go back to reading MacRumors losers.

  2. Re:You cannot compare specs directly by thesupraman · · Score: 1, Troll

    No, obviously you have no idea what you are talking about in this case.

    Reference counting (ARC) is EXACTLY a form of garbage collection, not particularly better or worse than any other.

    You DO realise that ARC imposes a runtime cost which some other garbage collectors do not? no? thought not.

    You DO realise that ARC is sensitive to some forms of data structure that it cannot collect? (circular references) and
    then needs to fall back to other forms of GC? no? thought not.

    And no, iOS cannot just run multiple apps at the same time to use multiple cores, as iOS only supports specifically
    written background tasks - it cannot just continue normal execution of a non-foreground task.

    You also, I bet, dont know what a process scheduler is, since that addresses your idiocy about primary apps being
    slower.

    I kind of feel sorry for the corporate IR development teams you worked with, but then since you worked in Java, I am
    not really that surprised.

    Really, your UID is low enough that you should know better..

  3. Re:You cannot compare specs directly by Swampash · · Score: 1, Troll

    iPhones have had smooth, fast UI for ages. Android is finally there with ICS as well

    I put a Samsung Galaxy S3 w/ICS next to my 2-year-old iPhone 4 and in normal swiping and scrolling operations the S3 felt like dogshit by comparison, where "dogshit" is a euphemism for "frustrating and laggy".

    When using the S3 I said out loud "oh wow, lag" and the owner asked what I meant. So I handed him my iPhone 4 and he swiped and dragged around for two seconds and said quietly "Oh. I see."