Geekbench, a benchmark for SoCs says latest Axx from company A is better than not SoC at being an SoC in single threaded loads that represent bursty BS loads that mostly fit the cache.
One could also dig deeper and see it has the multicore score of a RyzenZ1 extreme SOC, a mobile only 4y old arch, on a two node disadvantage to the Apple chip and with two less cores…
Anton knows best but BS clickbait like this drives clicks, even if it is completely misleading…
Congrats, now you can run your walled garden apps that little bit faster.
All that performance for what though?
Blue color pops up a little quicker in imessage /s
Future proofing, mostly. Google and Samsung have been promising seven years of updates, but they’re doing it because Apple has done it always, only Apple never promised longevity.
The issue here is that Apple designs its own silicon, so Apple decides when to stop supporting a device. With Android phones, Qualcomm and others make the silicon, and they are hard coded to specific Android versions. They release patches that allow new versions of Android to be used (this is in layman’s terms, it’s much more complicated than all that) and after a year or two, they stop releasing these patches. No new version of Android can run on that hardware and you have to buy a new phone or keep using unpatchable code. Well, at some point the Android side got this shit figured out and now they can logistically do seven years of updates. But the processors are still not as fast. Android guys are going nuts over the fact that the Pixel 10 benchmarks similar to the iPhone 11 in performance (Tensor 5 by Google in the Pixel 10, vs A13 Bionic by Apple in the iPhone 11). And while the iPhone 11 is still supported today (it’s getting iOS 26 on Monday), no one’s imagining an iPhone 11 is competitive with the current generation. So if you think a Tensor 5-powered Pixel 10 will be usable in 7 years, while it may be still getting updates… I got oceanfront property in Colorado to sell you.
The A19 Pro is also going to be awesome for gaming, but nobody buys Apple tech for gaming. It’s more creative stuff. Like making video/audio. Artists have always flocked to Apple, but I don’t think the power of the A19 Pro is necessarily catering to them. Or the platform it’s on. Artists want the iPad Pro, which currently runs on the M3 or M4 (Mac silicon).
So if you think a Tensor 5-powered Pixel 10 will be usable in 7 years, while it may be still getting updates… I got oceanfront property in Colorado to sell you.
The only reason I’m on a Pixel 5 (which I bought last year - 2024) is because I couldn’t run a recent enough version of Android on my 2017 phone.
Phone hardware has been pretty good since at least then. If I’m happy with this performance, the only reason it would get reduced is by bloat in the OS and apps.
Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. My Android phone is from 2019 (Galaxy S10). My wife jokes that I’m slumming it with it because my main is an iPhone 16 Pro Max. I’m really not though. The screen isn’t as good on the S10, but the typing is light-years better. Nothing on iOS even compares to trace typing on Gboard for Android.
But yeah, even with the hardware being so far behind on paper, in practice most users will never notice. Apple can push benchmarks all they want but if you’re happy with your phone, does it matter if it’s not the fastest?
Not fan of Apple (the company), but their single thread CPU performance has been industry leading for quiet some time.
Apple has always been selective as to how they compare their newest chips. You’ve always been able to get the equivalent performance for about half to a third of the price, or between 2 and 10 times the performance for the same price, depending on the type of computationally intensive task.
And by performance, I don’t mean single thread, as that hasn’t been a limiting factor for quite som time.
Don’t get me wrong. For traveling, and doing software development, it’s the only manufacturer that has managed to make laptops that don’t need to be connected to an outlet within an hour or two. I don’t know any better, at least.
Gaming focused Apple TV may be announced next month
Or local ai
