Apple’s “iPhone 8 is shaping up to be a beast when it comes to the raw performance of its chipset,” GSMArena reports. “Today a leaked screenshot surfaced in China purporting to depict the results obtained by the iPhone 8 after running Geekbench 4.0.”
“The iPhone 8 has absolutely destroyed the competition,” GSMArena reports. “Its single-core score of 4,537 is 30% better than what the iPhone 7 was able to achieve. What about the Android competition, you ask? Well, the closest any of those has come is Samsung’s Galaxy S8 with 1,945 (that’s not a typo).”
“The iPhone 8’s multi-core score is 8,975, which is 58% better than its predecessor’s,” GSMArena reports. “The Android device that’s scored the best here so far is the Galaxy S8+ with 6,338. That means the next iPhone performs 41% better than its most important Android-based competitor.”
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MacDailyNews Take: iPhones have always beaten Android phones in real world use as well. It’s the advantage of controlling the whole widget, owning both the silicon and the OS, versus cobbling together iPhone knockoffs/lookalikes with off-the-shelf parts from third-parties who obviously cannot compete with Apple in either discipline.
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in before the dummies who think these geekbench scores match geekbench for intel.
Hmmm… So what is Intel’s fastest single-core score?
Just looked it up… an iMac (!?!?!) had a single-core score of over 14,000 !!!
I’m not sure what you’re looking at, but the latest 27″ iMac (Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.0 GHz) gets 5242 single core and 16736 multi-core.
Either way, these numbers are obviously fake. The single core is about what we expect, but there is no way the multi-core score is going to scale so linearly.
single core Arm chip != single core intel chip.
I think what you mean to say is that the Geekbench benchmark has subtests which favor things like the encryption / description capabilities built into the ARM chips. To the point, I was simply corrected the misstated iMac benchmarks scores.
The favouring part is an old adage. Geekbench is version 4 now, a different iteration of the test.
I’m sure the average Fandroidboy would simply say “Who needs such a fast phone to make phone calls and check mail?” Stockholm Syndrome will do its work and people will rationalize that while their inferior phones are slower, they’re also cheaper (an issue for many).
Personally, I can’t wait to upgrade to the 8 from my 6…
Yes Fandroid Doofi would shout to the hills if their craptastic piece of fragmented technology had higher marks but must switch to even more bogus alt-arguments in order to justify their terminal bad judgment & self-defeating choices.
Yes a certain irony in the fact that a certain fandroid writer was happy to claim one of the advantages of the Galaxy S8 was the fact it was using a 10-nanometer process implying it was thus faster than the A10 as a result. Of course the facts showed that single core it was still markedly slower and multi core was only fractionally faster, the real world result being in tests that the iPhone 7 was still considerably faster than the S8. Just shows they are desperate to suggest an advantage when they can so its clearly important when it suits them enough to lie about it.
So if they are happy to mislead like that one can only imagine the re writing of history that will be woven in defense of these results against their puny alternatives. But yes you can bet when lies aren’t enough to hide the hiding they get speed will be portrayed as an irrelevance.
More important when will Apple actually harness this power in allowing an iPhone/iPad to support external screens or incorporate it in a very light and mobile laptop type device.
Alas, you will wait to upgrade because your loyalty to a slow Apple knows no limits. And you know you aren’t going to get the performance fraudulently posted in this rumor but you already have accepted that whatever Apple ships, you will buy, sight unseen.
Religious fervor exposed.
I thought the wait to upgrade this time was due to the phone release date being pushed back more than any other reason.
Most users don’t care about benchmarks, just that the phone works. Sounds like a take that usually MDN despises. You know, the so called IT doofuses. Jeez.
Well, some benchmarks are better indicators of real world performance than others. That said, Mac (and iOS) users have always placed more emphasis on user experience than simple benchmarks. In the end, however, it is great to have both a superior user experience and an indisputable lead in performance benchmarks.
I am particularly interested in the A11 benchmarks because I have been predicting that we are nearing a tipping point at which A-series processors will transition into Macs. The A11 and subsequent A11X may very well represent that initial step. It will be interesting to see how it all unfolds…
Seems that increasingly with each iteration all this extra power (whatever the efficacy of these results we know it will stuff the opposition the A10 already does) is being wasted. So surely with the A11 it will be ripe to test it out in other applications more akin to a laptop use where it will compete quite handily with the lower end Intel chips.
Quite the opposite. Apple is doing AI locally on the iPhone to improve photos, Siri responses and suggestions, etc. Apple’s goal of security means stuff that Google does on the cloud, Apple does on the phone. The goal of Apple’s silicon race can be directly pinned on AI and it’s here already.
AI and VR are buzzwords for Google and Amazon and all the other less than Tech companies trying to spin Wall Street.
Amusing you should put it that way with TC using those exact terms in his recent announcements. 😛
Google Android has a few years head start in allowing their voice AI to work on the phone/tablet w/o any data connection. There are still many things Siri cannot do w/o a connection in comparison but it’s nice to see them catch up, and in some case exceed Android like with the photo ‘sorting’.
Google Translate has an interesting feature that translates text in images (e.g. signs, newspaper clipping, etc.) in real-time w/o any Wireless (Wifi/Cell,BT) connection. Just point your camera at what you want translated. Very useful for me when demonstrating use on Japanese text. And so cool to see it try to match the ‘design’ of the original text.
Exactly, all most iPhone users care about is that their apps load fast, their calls don’t drop and the touch experience is as smooth as butter, for iPhones under 3 years old this is the case. Even on the most powerful Android phones there’s something intangible that doesn’t feel right, scrolling is quick, but it just doesn’t feel smooth…..
Perspective please. What is the most ‘powerful’ Android phone you used to form your impression?
Samsung S7, Samsung S8
Both these has laggy animations, although both are actually fast enough. Still, animations must be smooth and their sluggishness annoys me a lot.
All samsungs I have tried so far. I have S7 (Exynos version) and although it doesn’t feel slow, the animation is jerky. They had to do much better for the price point.
I hear the One Plus 3T and 5 are pretty smooth.
Geekbench has already stated this is a fake report. And the people on this website either know this and are purposely misleading the public OR are pretty incompetent for an Apple blog website.
The iPhone 8 hasn’t even been announced, how can it beat the competition when we don’t know anything about it.
Yeah, I first saw this fraudulent Geekbench score being circulated on Saturday or Sunday and by then it had already been debunked. To be posting this on Wednesday, without any acknowledgement that it was already deemed fake, is just inexcusable.
Maybe MDN should stick to its wheelhouse: finding tenuous, indirect connections to Apple in articles that promote their political ideology. They seem to be much better at doing that lately than in keeping up with actual Apple news. I used to make MDN my first stop to catch the major goings-on with Apple throughout the week because they usually had links to stories faster than any of the major sites I also checked could get them up. Recently, they seem to be hours or even days behind AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iMore, and the other major sites for big stories on an alarmingly consistent basis.
Sad.
To clarify: MDN used to have a wider range of links to news faster than the Apple sites could get ALL of that same information up, making MDN’s news aggregation more efficient than waiting for those sites to play catch-up with their stories. Now, it seems those sites are largely consistent in getting their stories up around the same time while MDN lags farther and farther behind.
Wait, why are you running this article days after the Geekbench CEO said this image was doctored and not genuine???
Assuming that the image has been doctored, much depends on whether the image was doctored for aesthetic reasons or for fraudulent reasons.
If the results displayed were genuine, but the image edited to make it look neater, then I don’t have any significant issues about that, but of course if the displayed figure was faked, then that would be totally unacceptable.
It will only be a short time before further tests are run to resolve the matter properly.
It might be hard to determine if it was doctored if the image as a whole was generated (drawn) by other means to appear to be a screenshot.
Every year its the same…somebody makes a headline saying the iPhone is gonna be late, or the iPhone is gonna ship without something the competition is shipping with, or, the best one yet, the iPhone is going to annihilate the competition, so everybody will be disappointed when it doesn’t. Just like CNN, it’s all manipulation and an insult to those who only read the headlines. No real facts or evidence, just arm-twisting ideology according to their agenda, which always creates a biased retaliation by the competition, which inevitably makes everybody liars or skewers of the truth. Nobody can trust nobody and any accountability is out the window. It’s a millennial generation of liars.
Would be nice if true however I find it very difficult to believe that Apple will both double cores and also increase chip speed in a single go.
Apple’s current fastest A chip, the A10 Fusion, has only 2 cores and a clock speed of 2.3 GHz. Moreover, by Apple design, thermal constraints make it so both cores cannot operate simultaneously. iOS devices are effectively optimized for single core operation and single threaded software, not multitasking.
Thus MDN is totally wrong on real world performance. Other chipmakers have used 4 core chips for quite a while now, which means they may appear slower for single app use, but they are are faster when the software takes advantage of all cores. It’s all about the software.
Huh? Apple certainly does better in actual software design across the board when compared to Google, Amazon, or Facebook, and there is no point in talking about hardware. Those extra cores do nothing if Google, Samsung or LG ARE TRYING TO CODE TO THEM!
Actually, the A10 Fusion has 4 cores. Two big, two little. Apple chose an implementation whereby only 2 are used at a time, the bigger two or the smaller two. It’s always possible that Apple is allowing all 4 to be used at the same time in the A11.
As for real world performance, single core performance is clearly what is most important. Speeding up the individual cores makes every application faster. Adding more cores as the “potential” to make “some” programs much faster. As someone with significant development experience, I can tell you that it’s not possible to optimize every algorithm for parallel processing. In some cases, you can, and when you can, it can make a big difference.
As an example, take Javascript apps that very common. They’re all single threaded by design. Since iPhones are optimized for fewer by more powerful cores, they end up trouncing Android in these applications and benchmarks.
Ah, the “big.LITTLE” tech designed by ARM that most top end mobile processors use these days.
Javascript apps are a good example for general single threading. Rendering something as normal as a webpage these days on any browser on the other hand is a good example for parallel processing. Might be interesting to see browser rendering comparisons to see how iOS devices match up.
While vaguely similar ARMS’s big.little in concept, Apple’s implementation is significantly different from the cores themselves to the custom controllers used to handle the workloads, etc.
Also, to the point, very few workloads lend themselves to much parallel processing optimization. Apple’s design choice has proven to be most effective for smart phone design.