Snapdragon 820 (Galaxy S7) vs. A9 (iPhone 6S/6S Plus

[John Mcgregor]

Samsung’s Mongoose SoC benchmarks leak, shows incredible performance

http://www.sammobile.com/2015/10/06...benchmarks-leak-shows-incredible-performance/

“Samsung’s upcoming Exynos processor has relatively similar single core performance as Apple's A9,” only in Single core performance. It’s multicore performance blows past the A9 by over 50% and even scores higher in power saving mode.

Quite impressive are the Ultra Power Saving results. When enabled, this CPU is faster than the one in my Galaxy S5, which imho has already enough power. So with Android 6.0 and this beast, we can have a smartphone which will last for days!! (If Samsung wont aim for the thinnest device and therefore sacrificing battery capacity)

And yet when you buy a phone it's laggy, stuttering iece of crap, even if it has many cpu cores and a lot of ram and what not.

Because a phone is not just a sum of its parts as it turns out.

 

[FFR]

Samsung’s Mongoose SoC benchmarks leak, shows incredible performance

http://www.sammobile.com/2015/10/06...benchmarks-leak-shows-incredible-performance/

“Samsung’s upcoming Exynos processor has relatively similar single core performance as Apple's A9,” only in Single core performance. It’s multicore performance blows past the A9 by over 50% and even scores higher in power saving mode.

Quite impressive are the Ultra Power Saving results. When enabled, this CPU is faster than the one in my Galaxy S5, which imho has already enough power. So with Android 6.0 and this beast, we can have a smartphone which will last for days!! (If Samsung wont aim for the thinnest device and therefore sacrificing battery capacity)

Actually the iPhone 6s still beats it.

 

[Palladium SG]

But the a9x will be here in a month, of 2015. The supposed x2 isn't slated until at the earliest by your own admission mid 2016. By then you'll be closer to the supposed a10x. So I think it's fair to compare the a9x to the x1.

Honestly this feels like a reluctance to acknowledge the feat achieved from Apple and the a9/a9x. Already looking ahead to things that haven't been released yet that will supposedly blow it away. Seems like I read about all these specs that are so advanced and touted. Then Apple brings out products that provide great user experiences, and oh by the way it's really powerful, like a secondary benefit. Sites like anandtech reveal that Apple SoC engineering is top notch. Instead of admiring things like this, we get "oh but xxx coming will do this in geek bench etc". It reeks of desperation honestly.

It's just like when the Galaxy s6 came out. They used ufs 2.0 which some bragged was so advanced in storage speed and that Apple would be behind because they had nothing like it. Instead Apple basically manages to put MacBook ssd like controller in, surpassing read/writes and being touted as far advanced to the point others will be catching up for a while. Like people really think Apple doesn't know how to put innovation in its products.

All that bleeding edge hardware is going to be wasted on Android anyway...Think about this, if you made some expensive to develop 3D game would you rather publish it on iOS with much more homogenized hardware set, Metal API and an ecosystem known to spend much more money on apps, or Android that has a gazillion different hardware configurations and Android versions and a piracy problem?

The Android spec fanboyism club only see the spec trees but not the ecosystem forest.