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Does this have implications for game consoles too? Is the iPhone the most powerful gaming device?

• flukus 10y ago
  That usually depends more on the graphics card than the processor.
• phire 10y ago
  It's quite possibly faster in the CPU department than the PS4/Xbox One, though those both have 8 (slower) cores. But the PS4, Xbox One and possibly even the Wii U will have much faster GPUs.
  • 13of40 10y ago
    The PS4 and XBox One also have four times as much RAM as the iPhone 7. In fact I was kind of shocked when they announced it would only have 2GB, considering you can get a Nexus or OnePlus with 6GB this year.
    • riotdash 10y ago
      Well that's the difference between optimized iOS and resource hungry Android.
    • t0mislav 10y ago
      Probably iPhone will be faster in every day usage with 2GB of RAM then these 2 phones with 6 GB.
      • swift 10y ago
        yep. the fact that iOS apps typically don't use GC and that multitasking is much more restricted both reduce the amount of memory that iOS needs. (though more is always better!)
        • flamedoge 10y ago
          more computing means less battery life. rather have more efficient setup than larger one if there is no difference in perceived performance other than battery life.
        • pjmlp 10y ago
          ARC is GC algorithm. http://gchandbook.org/ http://gchandbook.org/
          • swift 10y ago
            it's true that reference counting is a type of GC, but i think it was clear what i meant.
            • pjmlp 10y ago
              Not to those that don't have skills in compiler design. I know I was being pedantic, but that is how misconceptions get spread.
    • phire 10y ago
      Oh. I didn't even notice. Everyone was busy talking about the headphone jack.
    • Synaesthesia 10y ago
      There is one price you pay for more RAM on an SOC and that is higher power consumption, which is probably why. Considering my iPad Air has only 1gb of RAM an performs acceptably, despite having to render at 2560x1600 - it shows that iOS is surprisingly light on ram usage. 2gb will do well for the phone. iOS is also very quick to relaunch apps and the iPhone has very fast flash memory and fast CPU to do that.
    • tigershark 10y ago
      Why in the world you would need 6GB in a phone today? And the nexus can have all the ram in the world but will always be painfully slow. I am really surprised that I didn't throw my Nexus 5 against the wall out of frustration in the end. The real surprise was when my friend bought the nexus 6x or whatever is called and it was even slower than the nexus 5. Just to sum up, RAM is the most useless thing if all the rest sucks.
      • gdamjan1 10y ago
        Maybe not today, I bought a Oneplus 3 with 6GB ram because I plan on using it for some 4 to 5 years. I used my old HTC Desire HD for 5 years, it became ram strapped lately with its 768mb
      • 13of40 10y ago
        I have an iPad mini, and my major complaint is that applications crash due to lack of memory all the time. Things like a page full of animated gifs will crash the browser. I got a OnePlus 3 a couple of weeks ago and I haven't even remembered to charge the iPad since. I'm pretty sure it (the iPad) is going to end up in my drawer of misfit PDAs.