Someone on reddit did a "normal usage" test and the Samsung was a tiny bit faster than the iphone. But every benchmark I've seen shows that the iPhone is significantly faster.
This just shows that these cross-plattform benchmarks are meaningless. Just getting the CPU to switch to the fastest core and run at max speed for a few minutes is a science in itself. And don't forget that the software stacks are completely different, we are comparing apples to oranges.
But seriously, will anyone from either camp switch due to benchmarks? I don't think anyone outside MacWorld and a few bloggers even care
I don't think anyone will. When it comes to these Apple v Android benchmarks it's really just to flex. Reminds me of video game console "wars".
Nowadays most "standard" apps are cross-platform, but considering app and in-app purchases won't transfer over between platforms.. it must be quite an ordeal for the average person to switch platforms.
I need a new phone and I just realized: I'm doing the exact same things on my phone as I was doing 4 years ago.
So I don't really care if the latest mobile SOCs are 10 times better.
Smartphone specs have become irrelevant.
Do they just keep adding new tests that iPhones have hardware acceleration for? Linus Torvalds complained about Geekbench awhile back because many of the integer workloads were offloaded to the crypto unit.
> On ARM64, that SHA1 performance is hardware-assisted. I don't know if SHA2 is too, but Aarch64 does apparently do SHA256 in the crypto unit, so it might be fully or partially so. And on both ARM and x86, the AES numbers are similarly just about the crypto unit. So basically a quarter to a third of the "integer" workloads are just utter BS. They are not comparable across architectures due to the crypto units, and even within one architecture the numbers just don't mean much of anything.
When phone makers switched to arm64 a lot of early fanboy benchmarks were AES and SHA only, showing impressive gains and ignoring stuff first gen arm64 was actually slower at.
This just shows that these cross-plattform benchmarks are meaningless. Just getting the CPU to switch to the fastest core and run at max speed for a few minutes is a science in itself. And don't forget that the software stacks are completely different, we are comparing apples to oranges.
But seriously, will anyone from either camp switch due to benchmarks? I don't think anyone outside MacWorld and a few bloggers even care