[the-facts-machine] Comparing Performance of the 5S versus the 6 and 6-Plus
- From: Steve <pipeguy920@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <the-facts-machine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 11:12:32 -0400
BlankHello Listers,
Rob from the Today in iOS podcast reported the findings of the IFixIT
tear-down of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. Apart from the obvious difference, the
screen size, there are of course 2 other major differences between the 5S
and the 6 and 6 Plus. One is the newer A8 chip in the 6 and 6 Plus and the
other is the NFC chip needed for Apple Pay but also limited to Apple Pay.
Apple has restricted the chip so that other NFC functionality like pairing
bluetooth devices and so on is not possible, the chip is strictly in place
for Apple Pay at this point.
Of course the A8 processor does use the new 20 Nanometer technology which
results in much lower power consumption so combined with the larger
batteries in the 6 and 6 Plus, battery life is noticeably improved between
the 5S and 6 and vastly improved between the 5S and 6 Plus.
As for benchmark testing, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are reported to have only
about a 15 to 20% better performance over the 5S. This means the difference
between the A7 and A8 chip is far less significant as the difference last
year between the A6 and A7. Here the A7 tests showed it was in many cases
twice as fast as the A6.
The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus also continue to have only 1 Gb of RAM. Rumours had
it that this had been increased to 2 Gb, but that is not so and once again
there is no difference here to the 5S.
The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are running at a 1.4 Ghz clock speed, the 5S runs at
1.3 Ghz – also just a very minor increase here.
Given that the camera for the most part is the same with only minor
improvements, any 5S user can be confident that they still own a phone which
is very much up to snuff and unless you really want that big 5.5 inch screen
and better battery life, there really is very little reason to upgrade to a
6 or 6 Plus if you have a 5S now.
In single core performance tests which are most relevant for the performance
of many apps, the iPhones continue to totally smoke even the top-of-line
Android phones like the Galaxy S5. I don’t recall the benchmark test
numbers, but even older phones like the 5 and 5C are quite a match for the
newest Android phones whereas the 5S, 6 and 6 Plus leave them in the dust.
If you think education is difficult, try being stupid !
Steve
Lansing, MI
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