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The iPhones 6S

41 points by firloop 11y ago

delish 11y ago
My 2012 Thinkpad T530 with a core i5-3230m gets about 5000 on the geekbench 3 multicore test. That a 2015 phone gets 4300 astonishes me. I never feel like my thinkpad is slow, so I can't imagine how fast that phone feels. My highest praise to apple's cpu engineers. My small fear is projects like the mill will not materialize, and we'll have a long-term cpu speed cap of about 4000 on the geekbench 3 single core no matter what we do, at least for the next 50 years.
- mozumder 11y ago
  The best part is that the iPhone A* series is power limited, to about 5 watts max. They could easily double performance with a real power budget, by increasing clock frequency, bus speeds, cache sizes, etc. They don't even need to mess with the cores. The A9 cores could easily beat Xeons if they were ever given a server implementation.
- renox 11y ago
  > My small fear is projects like the mill will not materialize, and we'll have a long-term cpu speed cap of about 4000 on the geekbench 3 single core no matter what we do If I remember correctly, the Mill CPU real advantage isn't really about improving the maximum performance of a core (even if it has advantage also here) but improving performance/power ratio. So this could help 'reduce the gap' between a battery powered computer and a plugged computer, but not really improve on current plugged computer.
joelrunyon 11y ago
Still amazing they start out at 16GB and charge so much for upgrades when you can get a 128GB flash drive for $30 on amazon.
wodenokoto 11y ago
So it appears that the new iPhone is considerably faster than my laptop and I am probably more likely to upgrade my phone this year than my laptop. So ... any way to offload heavy computations to my phone?
ksec 11y ago
While It is great to see iPhone 6S A9 closing in on the Desktop performance. I dont think this is a fair comparison. The A9x in iPad Pro, should make a better comparison. Which i think will beat even the current Macbook / Macbook Air. Next year will mark a decade of OSX switched to x86. So may be 2016 WWDC they will announce the switch to ARM?

41 points by firloop 11y ago

My 2012 Thinkpad T530 with a core i5-3230m gets about 5000 on the geekbench 3 multicore test. That a 2015 phone gets 4300 astonishes me. I never feel like my thinkpad is slow, so I can't imagine how fast that phone feels. My highest praise to apple's cpu engineers. My small fear is projects like the mill will not materialize, and we'll have a long-term cpu speed cap of about 4000 on the geekbench 3 single core no matter what we do, at least for the next 50 years.

mozumder 11y ago
The best part is that the iPhone A* series is power limited, to about 5 watts max. They could easily double performance with a real power budget, by increasing clock frequency, bus speeds, cache sizes, etc. They don't even need to mess with the cores. The A9 cores could easily beat Xeons if they were ever given a server implementation.
renox 11y ago
> My small fear is projects like the mill will not materialize, and we'll have a long-term cpu speed cap of about 4000 on the geekbench 3 single core no matter what we do If I remember correctly, the Mill CPU real advantage isn't really about improving the maximum performance of a core (even if it has advantage also here) but improving performance/power ratio. So this could help 'reduce the gap' between a battery powered computer and a plugged computer, but not really improve on current plugged computer.

joelrunyon 11y ago

Still amazing they start out at 16GB and charge so much for upgrades when you can get a 128GB flash drive for $30 on amazon.

wodenokoto 11y ago

So it appears that the new iPhone is considerably faster than my laptop and I am probably more likely to upgrade my phone this year than my laptop. So ... any way to offload heavy computations to my phone?

ksec 11y ago

While It is great to see iPhone 6S A9 closing in on the Desktop performance. I dont think this is a fair comparison. The A9x in iPad Pro, should make a better comparison. Which i think will beat even the current Macbook / Macbook Air. Next year will mark a decade of OSX switched to x86. So may be 2016 WWDC they will announce the switch to ARM?