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Do internals actually matter when it comes to performance? iphone 6s vs xs speed comparison is only about 5% slower in actual usage and often is actually faste

Do internals actually matter when it comes to performance? iphone 6s vs xs speed comparison is only about 5% slower in actual usage and often is actually faster. Not very compelling. https://youtu.be/uN4JoIeRojg https://youtu.be/uN4JoIeRojg https://youtu.be/a1dWINdNGl8 https://youtu.be/a1dWINdNGl8 https://youtu.be/uN4JoIeRojg https://youtu.be/uN4JoIeRojg

NaOH 7y ago
I have a 6s and XS non-Max and use both daily. A claim of 5% difference does not in any way match my experiences, and I say that as someone who prefers the 6S for its size and pre-FaceID UI. My XS consistently and handily outperforms my 6S (which does have a new battery, so it is not affected by battery-related performance downgrades). The only difference between the devices is that the 6S does not have cellular service. Other than that distinction, all apps and settings on the devices are identical. The only exception I see whereby the 6S is faster is with the Box.com app when it syncs the files I've marked for offline use. I have no idea if that's because of differences between the phones or something with the app.
gruez 7y ago
>is only about 5% slower in actual usage and often is actually faster Think about that for a second. The 6s has a slower cpu, gpu, disk, wifi than the xs, yet it often performs faster? Maybe this means there's something wrong with the benchmark. Does 6s some sort of secret sauce that they forgot to add in the xs? Maybe there's something that they're not accounting for? Maybe the 6s running with a hot cache and not the xs? Maybe the xs was recently used and was hot? Also, I don't get the popularity of this style of benchmarks. They're not representative of actual usage. Cold app launches account for maybe 1% of my smartphone time.
- randyrand 7y ago
  Some of those videos also do wifi website loading comparisons and the 6s is about the same speed. What do you spend time waiting for on your phone? I dont spend much time waiting fo my phone on my SE daily driver, do you? App loading time is still the most common thing I can think of. What else would you suggest they test?
  - gruez 7y ago
    >Some of those videos also do wifi website loading comparisons and the 6s is about the same speed. That's not surprising as 80% of the time the phone's waiting for the network, so the benchmark basically turns into a latency/speed test and any performance difference gets buried. >What do you spend time waiting for on your phone? I dont spend much time waiting fo my phone on my SE daily driver, do you? App loading time is still the most common thing I can think of. What else would you suggest they test? Maybe it isn't an area that we should be concerned about? I mean, you don't see this type of benchmarks in laptop/desktop reviews. You might see it in SSD reviews, but that's because there's literally nothing else to test in terms of real life workloads. Of all the reasons to pick one phone over the other, shaving 15s off each day isn't one of them.

NaOH 7y ago

I have a 6s and XS non-Max and use both daily. A claim of 5% difference does not in any way match my experiences, and I say that as someone who prefers the 6S for its size and pre-FaceID UI. My XS consistently and handily outperforms my 6S (which does have a new battery, so it is not affected by battery-related performance downgrades). The only difference between the devices is that the 6S does not have cellular service. Other than that distinction, all apps and settings on the devices are identical. The only exception I see whereby the 6S is faster is with the Box.com app when it syncs the files I've marked for offline use. I have no idea if that's because of differences between the phones or something with the app.

gruez 7y ago

>is only about 5% slower in actual usage and often is actually faster Think about that for a second. The 6s has a slower cpu, gpu, disk, wifi than the xs, yet it often performs faster? Maybe this means there's something wrong with the benchmark. Does 6s some sort of secret sauce that they forgot to add in the xs? Maybe there's something that they're not accounting for? Maybe the 6s running with a hot cache and not the xs? Maybe the xs was recently used and was hot? Also, I don't get the popularity of this style of benchmarks. They're not representative of actual usage. Cold app launches account for maybe 1% of my smartphone time.

randyrand 7y ago
Some of those videos also do wifi website loading comparisons and the 6s is about the same speed. What do you spend time waiting for on your phone? I dont spend much time waiting fo my phone on my SE daily driver, do you? App loading time is still the most common thing I can think of. What else would you suggest they test?
- gruez 7y ago
  >Some of those videos also do wifi website loading comparisons and the 6s is about the same speed. That's not surprising as 80% of the time the phone's waiting for the network, so the benchmark basically turns into a latency/speed test and any performance difference gets buried. >What do you spend time waiting for on your phone? I dont spend much time waiting fo my phone on my SE daily driver, do you? App loading time is still the most common thing I can think of. What else would you suggest they test? Maybe it isn't an area that we should be concerned about? I mean, you don't see this type of benchmarks in laptop/desktop reviews. You might see it in SSD reviews, but that's because there's literally nothing else to test in terms of real life workloads. Of all the reasons to pick one phone over the other, shaving 15s off each day isn't one of them.