iPhone 5 Benchmarked: The Fastest Smartphone in the Land
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Apparently, the iPhone 5 seems to be the fastest smartphone guys at PCMag have ever tested.
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It's big news for gadget sites, but it apparently only warrants 4 upvotes on Hacker News. That feels about right.
"Fastest smartphone in the land (even though older hardware beats it on 1/3-1/2 of the metrics, which are not evenly weighted by any stretch)".
Also, Jellybean has widely been shown to be more performant than ICS on the same hardware (S3 included), so one wonders why ICS was used (after all, software that was released yesterday should probably be compared to software released in July, not December last year, before the hardware came out), for a fair comparison, right?
That's kind of a big deal, given how small the iPhone is and given its above average battery life. Both those things might only be possible because of an underpowered CPU/GPU – but they are apparently not.
It's quite impressive that Apple apparently didn't have to make any really obvious trade offs, it hits all the high notes across the board (even if it isn't necessarily number one in any one category).
Mostly it's stuff that people only do rarely. But the big exception is the browser -- render time is still something we worry about in desktop browsers, so I bet it'll still mean something for mobile browsers for a while.