Question regarding the recently released iPhone 5S benchmarks.

[ALLEyezOnMe]

Hello!

In light of the recently released iPhone 5S benchmarks, I talked to a friend, who owns a HTC One smartphone. We have always had this iOS vs Android and HTC vs Apple argument and I tried to illustrate my point, that according to these benchmarks, even the 1 year old iPhone 5 (which I own), beats the HTC One in quite a few of the tests and needless to say, the latter is 6 months newer and sports a remarkable hardware. In turn, he linked me to some Geekbench/Geekbench2 benchmarks, which had the HTC One scoring a lot more than the iPhone 5. So we are a bit puzzled, which tests show what and in the end, is the iPhone 5 really better than HTC's flagship device in those areas, listed by the iPhone 5S benchmarks? Here are some screenshots of the Geekbench/Geekbench2 tests for reference.

 

[thunng8]

All the graphs you linked are Geekbench 2 results.

Geekbench 2 has been superceeded by Geekbench 3.

Geekbench 3 attempts to be a more accurate representation of performance of CPUs.

Another change is Geekbench 3 splits single core and multicore results.
Single core results are important as many applications only use 1 core.

That's where you might see the iPhone 5 doing so well compared to the HTC One or S4. According to GeekBench 3, the iPhone 5 has slightly better single core results than S4 and HTC One. Therefore, you'll see many benchmark results where the iPhone 5 is still very competitive or beating the HTC One and S4.

Of course the 5S is a monster .. the single core result is over double that of the HTC One and S4 and even with 2X less cores it even outperforms the S4 and HTC One in multi-core.

 

[WelshBloke]

TBH I'm getting the impression that all the mobile devices benchmarks are pretty much worthless, particularly if you're trying to compare cross platform.

 

[bearxor]

I think it's all still wonderfully fascinating so I like to see the benchmarks, even cross platform.

But in the iOS vs Android argument there are so many other things to consider before you even get to which one has a more powerful CPU/GPU IMO.

 

[MrX8503]

I wouldn't worry about benchmarks so much. They're pretty sketchy and should be taken with a grain of salt. You're better off testing the devices side by side with similar tasks.

 

[stormkroe]

Those charts aren't really contradictory to your issue, the iphone 5 scores similarly in all the tests, and the top chart doesn't even have a htc One in it, just a One X which is much slower.

 

[WelshBloke]

I think it's all still wonderfully fascinating so I like to see the benchmarks, even cross platform.

But in the iOS vs Android argument there are so many other things to consider before you even get to which one has a more powerful CPU/GPU IMO.

Thats the truth. One platform having a slightly more powerful thingymajig or a better whatyamacallit is fairly irrelevant given how different the platforms are in the first place.

 

[Lyfer]

I heard the 64 bit CPU makes your phone calls sound better. Can someone confirm?

 

[WelshBloke]

I heard the 64 bit CPU makes your phone calls sound better. Can someone confirm?

 

[Oyeve]

I heard the 64 bit CPU makes your phone calls sound better. Can someone confirm?

AFAIK only tmo has hd calling. I use it all the time and it sounds great.

 

[ALLEyezOnMe]

Those charts aren't really contradictory to your issue, the iphone 5 scores similarly in all the tests, and the top chart doesn't even have a htc One in it, just a One X which is much slower.

Yes, the first chart is a bit older, but I decided to link it anyway (for some odd reason) Thanks to everyone, who replied! Especially thunng8's post cleared the confusion quite a bit.