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superchunk said:
Chandler said:
superchunk said:
Chandler said:
But it's not a 200$ phone.


Its not?

Who the hell buys a phone off contract?


Yes, it's not. A huge chunk of the contract is to pay off the phone. Calculations like this make people get into crazy high depts because they onls think about the initial cost and forget about the huge tail.

While I technically agree with you, its a cellphone. The reason no one cares about contracts is because we know we'll always have one, therefore the contract price is the real price.


Your thread is misleading buddy, update the cpu details for iphone.



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wow you all are quick to attack. This thread wasn't on my VGC Buddy so I just saw it now due to it being on first page of hot topics. I'll fix now. Damn those early reports!



rocketpig said:
Kynes said:
pezus said:
I wonder why you're even comparing Vita to the iPhone 5, a phone that isn't even the most powerful phone out there apparently. Try Galaxy SIII


Galaxy S3 (which one, the USA, 2 core, or the European one, 4 core) is maybe faster than iPhone5 in the CPU part. The GPU of the S3 is slower, in both versions.

Actually, it appears the iPhone 5 just Geekbenched slightly higher than the four core Galaxy SIII. The amazing part is that it did it with a 1ghz dual core processor which is surely more power efficient than the SIII's chip. 

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/16/iphone-5-benchmarks-appear-in-geekbench-showing-dual-core-1ghz-a6-cpu/

Those can be easily duped. Never trust phone benchmarks. I can edit a file and blow anything away in my phone.

However, it does show that the A6 is a damn good processor. I'm betting its closer to Vita than numbers would suggest.



However, reading this : http://www.anandtech.com/show/6292/iphone-5-a6-not-a15-custom-core : It is entirely possible their A6 is a lot closer to Vita or the S3's international quad-core option than you'd think at first glance.



Well it is definitely a better cpu choice than they made with the 4S considering battery life. The Vita is pretty bad for that but it's not a phone so it gets more forgivness. I wonder what battery life the iPhone 5 has for gaming? Hasn't gaming been the biggest drain for their devices in the past?



Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(

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Anandtech just released SunSpider tests for the iPhone 5 (measuring Javascript performance). The short of it is that the iPhone absolutely annihilates the competition. Apple is really on to something with this custom chip design. It's exciting to think of what they can do with this tech down the road.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6309/iphone-5a6-sunspider-performance




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rocketpig said:
Anandtech just released SunSpider tests for the iPhone 5 (measuring Javascript performance). The short of it is that the iPhone absolutely annihilates the competition. Apple is really on to something with this custom chip design. It's exciting to think of what they can do with this tech down the road.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6309/iphone-5a6-sunspider-performance


Much faster than a quad core A9 at higher frequency. It has an impressive IPC.

It would destroy a lower frequency quad core A9.



Kynes said:
rocketpig said:
Anandtech just released SunSpider tests for the iPhone 5 (measuring Javascript performance). The short of it is that the iPhone absolutely annihilates the competition. Apple is really on to something with this custom chip design. It's exciting to think of what they can do with this tech down the road.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6309/iphone-5a6-sunspider-performance


Much faster than a quad core A9 at higher frequency. It has an impressive IPC.

It would destroy a lower frequency quad core A9.

It should be noted that SunSpider isn't the best benchmark in the world... Far from it, actually. But it does a decent job of showing memory management, where the new iPhone ARMv7 chip looks to shine.




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It's true that sunspider shines in a non starved bandwidth architecture, but other benchmarks seems to suggest the performance in synthetic tests of the A6 is most times >2x the A5 performance.

I'm 100% sure that it performs better than the Vita chip.



Turns out the gpu chip in the iPhone 5 only uses 3 out of the 4 cores.

I would say this puts the PSV still ahead in terms of gaming performance. The S3 is also still some way behind the iPhone 5 in both cpu and gpu performance though.

Some links for more info:

http://www.ubmtechinsights.com/

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/df-hardware-iphone-5-review



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