iPhone 4S Benchmarked: Obliterates competition

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

iPhone 4S numbers don't surprise me at all. What surprises me is Galaxy II numbers!

[rajputwarrior]

You know, thats the problem with nerds. They think specs are everything.

yeah it's retarded all the android fanboys come out blasting the iphone cause they have dual core phones and quad cores coming out but their OS runs like ass but they don't care about that because on paper their phones are better then an iphone...

[ToneKnee]

Why are we taking the browser benchmarks seriously? People should know better than the browser benchmarks are only down to the actual browsers themselves. The Honeycomb browser in Android is clearly better than that which is with Gingerbread.

[Lexcyn]

I'm running an HTC Desire HD and I got 3255 on Sunspider ... so the results they have on that chart do not make sense to me.

[rajputwarrior]

Why are we taking the browser benchmarks seriously? People should know better than the browser benchmarks are only down to the actual browsers themselves. The Honeycomb browser in Android is clearly better than that which is with Gingerbread.

the phone browser crashes/lag even more then the HC one..?

[Astra.Xtreme]

Why not? It demonstrates that clock speed doesn't mean much.

A few others already clarified if further for you, but you should at least know the background of these things before trying to make a comparison. Even on an outsider view, you're comparing an old gen cpu to a current gen cpu. This thread is comparing current gen to current gen.

[PyX]

People should know better than the browser benchmarks are only down to the actual browsers themselves.

Since I have a pretty good start with rhetorical comments in this thread… How do you explain that Safari 5.1 on my 27" iMac is so much faster than the one on my 13" MacBook Pro ? Only down to the browsers themselves, sure, sure… :laugh:

At this point, it isn’t even necessary to add that a lot of the mobile browsers out there rely on Apple’s Webkit engine… If Google modifies it to get a worse score, it’s not Apple’s problem, nor the benchmarks maker here.

[Hardcore Til I Die]

yeah it's retarded all the android fanboys come out blasting the iphone cause they have dual core phones and quad cores coming out but their OS runs like ass but they don't care about that because on paper their phones are better then an iphone...

The OS doesn't "run like ass" .. try using it instead of reading Android hater reviews and I'm sure you'll agree.

[p1p3]

And just for fun... Samsung Galaxy SII running Android 2.3.7 @ 1400MHz and Firefox Nightly gets 1264 in Sunspider 0.9.1

Kind of "obliterates" the iPhone 4S now doesnt it :D

[rajputwarrior]

The OS doesn't "run like ass" .. try using it instead of reading Android hater reviews and I'm sure you'll agree.

look at my sig and come back to me... or go here

if you want i can take a picture of me holding my transformer if that doesn't convince you?

[Hardcore Til I Die]

A few others already clarified if further for you, but you should at least know the background of these things before trying to make a comparison. Even on an outsider view, you're comparing an old gen cpu to a current gen cpu. This thread is comparing current gen to current gen.

Try reading my later post explaining why I made the comparison.. I'm not thick, you don't have to explain it to me slowly :laugh:

look at my sig and come back to me... or go here

You have a tablet - that's not the same as a smartphone and doesn't run the same version of the OS.

[rajputwarrior]

You have a tablet - that's not the same as a smartphone and doesn't run the same version of the OS.

and the tablet should run better right? Cause it's tegra 2 with 1gb of RAM and HC is hardware accelerated... but it still runs like crap. this benchmarks compares tablet too so i don't see why you tried to cover up your mistake and say use a phone...

[Lexcyn]

The OS doesn't "run like ass" .. try using it instead of reading Android hater reviews and I'm sure you'll agree.

It doesn't run like crap on my phone ... runs buttery smooth and does everything I want it to do.

Look at everyone here fighting over basically numbers. Really, when it comes down to it:

BUY WHAT YOU LIKE.

[Hardcore Til I Die]

and the tablet should run better right? Cause it's tegra 2 with 1gb of RAM and HC is hardware accelerated... but it still runs like crap.

Android honeycomb probably does run like crap.. I haven't used it so can't possibly comment.

This thread is talking about the iPhone so when making comparisons I presumed we were talking about smartphones, not tablets.

Gingerbread is smooth as anything on my SGS2.. nothing really slows it down.

In fact, I've had it for a month now and it's frozen on me once. That's better than I can say for most of my devices past and present!

[tsupersonic]

Is this really surprising? iOS is built for one device - the iPhone. Therefore the iPhone can be optimized to take advantage of the hardware more efficiently than Android. Android is an OS built for hundreds of devices to run on. It is not optimized for a single CPU or GPU.

[rajputwarrior]

^ true

Android honeycomb probably does run like crap.. I haven't used it so can't possibly comment.

This thread is talking about the iPhone so when making comparisons I presumed we were talking about smartphones, not tablets.

Gingerbread is smooth as anything on my SGS2.. nothing really slows it down.

In fact, I've had it for a month now and it's frozen on me once. That's better than I can say for most of my devices past and present!

it's comparing the new iphone to other mobile devices INCLUDING tablets (well android devices anyways)... so including tablets is fair.

the simplest way to tell how bad slow android OS is compared to iOS is take both devices, and swipe your finger back and forth on the home screen over and over again really fast. one keeps up with ease, the other, not even close.

[FMH]

No Windows Phone device in comparison? I expect it to be very superior in the SunSpider test, because Mango has IE9, and it is the fastest performer on desktop, in this particular test.

[Hardcore Til I Die]

it's comparing the new iphone to other mobile devices INCLUDING tablets (well android devices anyways)... so including tablets is fair.

Well I guess this is a prime example of Android fragmentation.. my phone is awesome and your tablet runs like crap. :D

[rajputwarrior]

Well I guess this is a prime example of Android fragmentation.. my phone is awesome and your tablet runs like crap. :D

it sucks :( but games and apps run amazing on it though :( some of the graphics this thing can pull off are amazing. i just wish I could say the same thing about the OS. i love the OS UI and what not, i just hate that it's sooo effin slow compared to iOS.

[Hardcore Til I Die]

^ true

it's comparing the new iphone to other mobile devices INCLUDING tablets (well android devices anyways)... so including tablets is fair.

the simplest way to tell how bad slow android OS is compared to iOS is take both devices, and swipe your finger back and forth on the home screen over and over again really fast. one keeps up with ease, the other, not even close.

I don't have that problem on the SGS2 running go launcher ex with five home screens. Could be something to do with the screen resolution? I expect it's much lower on the SGS2.

it sucks :( but games and apps run amazing on it though :( some of the graphics this thing can pull off are amazing. i just wish I could say the same thing about the OS. i love the OS UI and what not, i just hate that it's sooo effin slow compared to iOS.

I've only ever had a 1st gen iPhone and that was pretty damn slow towards the time when I decided to sell it, so I can't really say anything about the current iPhones but the SGS2 is like lightning compared to the iPhone v1 :p Shocker! :p

[TheElite]

I think this was just flamebait by Anandtech.

There are people who are getting far better scores on their Android phones than listed in that graph.

[rajputwarrior]

I think this was just flamebait by Anandtech.

There are people who are getting far better scores on their Android phones than listed in that graph.

it could be that anandtech are using stock roms and not modded ones like the ones others are using?

[TheElite]

it could be that anandtech are using stock roms and not modded ones like the ones others are using?

What does it matter?

The whole beauty of Android is that you can tweak it anyway you want.

[rajputwarrior]

What does it matter?

The whole beauty of Android is that you can tweak it anyway you want.

well its only fair to compare current stock OS to stock OS...

[TheElite]

well its only fair to compare current stock OS to stock OS...

Not really.

If the iPhone is stuck on stock, that is a limitation of the platform. If Android can be made to perform better, why is that an unfair thing?