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Apple iPhone 7 Plus Packs 3GB RAM, Early A10 Fusion Benchmarks Look Very Strong (hothardware.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the do-more-with-less dept.

MojoKid writes from a report via HotHardware: Apple's A10 Fusion processor, paired with the iPhone 7, is already making its mark on benchmark circuit. Although you may or may not be impressed with Apple's new handset, as usual, Cupertino's latest smartphone is looking very strong performance-wise. According to Geekbench numbers, which showcase the iPhone 7 Plus running iOS 10.0.1 (Golden Master), the 5.5-inch smartphone has 3GB of RAM onboard (the iPhone 7 reportedly contains 2GB RAM). Compared to the previous generation iPhone 6s Plus, this is an increase of 1GB. Compared to Android flagships, which come with 4GB or even 6GB of RAM, 3GB might seem paltry. However, benchmarks show time and time again that Apple's SoCs are among the fastest in the industry and simply do more with less resources. Apple says that the advances it has made with the A10 allow the processor to be twice as fast as the A8 in the iPhone 6 Plus and 40 percent faster than the A9 in the iPhone 6s Plus. The iPhone 7 Plus received a Geekbench single-core score of 3233, while its multi-core score comes in at 5363. For comparison, the beefy A9X processor in the iPad Pro -- also paired with 3GB of RAM -- puts up scores of 3009 and 4881 respectively. Likewise, these numbers far outpace those of the iPhone 6s Plus, which delivers 2407 and 4046 respectively.

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  1. Re:Wrong Market by dfghjk · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "See, this would impress Android users because they care about this stuff."

    You say that like it's a virtue. iPhone users don't care about it because iPhone performance has always been adequate. Android has a history of performance issues and Android users, as a group, tend toward genital measurements driving their purchase decisions. Android has never been about engineering a whole product, iPhone has been.

    Meanwhile, most users in both camps are how you describe iPhone users. Nerds constitute little of the population yet most everyone has a phone.

  2. moVd down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

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