iPhone 6 A8 GPU benchmark suggests it's behind the curve

12 September, 2014
The phone scores just marginally better than the iPhone 5s with the A8 GPU having little to brag about.

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  • AnonD-299708
  • K1F
  • 12 Sep 2014

Apple:"why giving to customer the best hardware when they r fine with just slightly better 1"that the feeling I got with Apple , their priority is always money & cent .

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    • der
    • Ycp
    • 12 Sep 2014

    50% Better GPU my ASS apple.

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      • AnonD-2686
      • Pvm
      • 12 Sep 2014

      I have a 5S now and i am happy with it, will upgrade when my contracts finishes, then we'll talk about upgrading.

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        • AnonD-85193
        • 3Wd
        • 12 Sep 2014

        Well there are a number of factors involved, although Apple say upto 50% improvement that could be just filrate, but if the CPU is not feeding the GPU or even the bandwidth from the narrow bus of the phone could be hindering it also. So the 50% will be more or less useless if the CPU and memory bandwidth can't feed it.

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          • ronald
          • v0q
          • 12 Sep 2014

          AnonD-146024, 12 Sep 2014iPhone 3G was design change over original iPhone iPhone 3G... moreYour right.. better wait for the 6S. Base on iphone history and marketing strategy, the non-S series were just Apple's Magic trick as bridge to the incoming S. Poor iphone lover..

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            • anon
            • 7xH
            • 12 Sep 2014

            lele, 12 Sep 2014Damn. That's a very nice gpu you have there. I'm a android... moreNo, the A7 is Now where near on par with the SD800 lol. My Nexus 5 scores ~3000 on geekbench (SD800). And the 5S with the A7 scores ~2400. The A7/A8 are significantly more optimized, but the equivalent Snapdragons are still superior.

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              • anon
              • vV5
              • 12 Sep 2014

              dammit my S3 benchmark is higher

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                • AnonD-130551
                • 7F7
                • 12 Sep 2014

                Oh man, look out Apple. The Adreno 430 is almost here!

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                  • Android Man
                  • 3au
                  • 12 Sep 2014

                  Galaxy SII spec and performance. your all been i-mugged. ha ha ROFL. Get a Samsung Galaxy S5 for real performance.

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                    • nobody
                    • rvY
                    • 12 Sep 2014

                    SL Boy, 12 Sep 2014Pathetic is the word to sum the new iphoney 6.you cant even spell iphone.

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                      • AnonD-69883
                      • c}5
                      • 12 Sep 2014

                      Sad, I was actually going to compliment apple here if they kept the cpu/gpu race running but they only made the effort with the 5S... the camera is outdated, still an expensive phone.. also the benchmarks speak for themselves, anyone complaining about OS lag has clearly not had a flagship device that costs close or the same as an iphone nowadays.. if you haven't yet, give kitkat a try you'll be impressed...

                      I wish Steve jobs was still around he knew how quality and performance needed to match the price tag

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                        • chris
                        • iCp
                        • 12 Sep 2014

                        The A7 works great in an iPad retina with an even higher resolution than 1080p so the sightly faster A8 will be fine for an 1080p screen.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • 0k%
                          • 12 Sep 2014

                          AnonD-146024, 12 Sep 2014iPhone 3G was design change over original iPhone iPhone 3G... moreYeah, you're right.

                          BUT still the iPhone isn't worth that money, at least for me as a non-fanboy!

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                            • lele
                            • uS{
                            • 12 Sep 2014

                            Damn. That's a very nice gpu you have there. I'm a android user but honestly that hexa and a8 is a threat. I've reading last year 5s A7 dual core that can par on quad on soc 800 is really mind blowing. I might buy iphone 6 the price looks good. I'm keeping my note 3 and buy this I6.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • ny%
                              • 12 Sep 2014

                              Th A8's Basemark scores blow away the Galaxy Alpha, lol.

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                                • TruckStop
                                • Mk7
                                • 12 Sep 2014

                                Joey, 12 Sep 2014I just pre ordered the iphone 6, android phones may be a bu... moreExpensive SD cards? A 32Gb class 10 card costs around £15. I know Apple charge more per GB than that.

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                                  • none
                                  • Pc5
                                  • 12 Sep 2014

                                  AnonD-146024, 12 Sep 2014iPhone 3G was design change over original iPhone iPhone 3G... morei don't know... the graphic presents a big performance upgrade between the 4s and the 5.

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                                    • AnonD-209094
                                    • vaN
                                    • 12 Sep 2014

                                    AnonD-121678, 12 Sep 2014I'm an iPhone 5S owner and i already knew the iPhone 6 was ... moreThe 5s was epic, mindblowing, honestly we had no right to expect anything that great two years in a row. For me personally it doesnt matter much what the iPhone 6 can and cannot do, i dont care about any phone at this ridiculous length but im still interested in the Apple A8 because of iPad Air 2.

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                                      • Samy
                                      • fvU
                                      • 12 Sep 2014

                                      Well I'm not ever buying this thing but its a given that games are guaranteed to run pretty well on apple devices. They're always optimized to run on their
                                      "low spec" hardware. In fact I don't think it's worth discussing the graphics performance on the new iphone because, honestly, that's the last thing iphone buyers need to worry about.

                                      Lack of ram, full hd screen, ois , higher resolution camera, mediocre battery....these are the things we should be discussing.

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                                        • AnonD-270318
                                        • 9GP
                                        • 12 Sep 2014

                                        AnonD-209094, 12 Sep 2014Newer phones didnt have that fast a predecessor. The Apple ... moreit makes sense but this time Apple surely messed up everything. I was waiting for smth better but i'll still try this new one cuz my 5s is way too old