The iPhone 6s is so fast, not only does it destroy the iPhone 6 in speed tests, it tops the iPad Air 2 and every Android device on the market, according to initial benchmark tests.
Apple’s engineers managed to make some huge GPU improvements on the iPhone 6s thanks to new technology that allows the the A9 chip to deliver higher performance and lower power consumption. According to early benchmarks by tech gurus at AnandTech, all the improvements add up to make the iPhone 6s nearly twice as fast as the rest of the industry.
In some benchmarks, the iPhone 6s nearly tops the Surface Pro 3:
One big reason why the iPhone 6s is so fast is Apple did something radical with the way it handles writing data to the solid state drive (SSD). The iPhone 6s uses a SSD storage controller that’s more akin to what a MacBook uses than anything rival smartphones are using. Apple has effectively taken the MacBook SSD controller and adopted it for a smartphone.
“Overall, NAND performance is impressive, especially in sequential cases,” writes AnandTech’s Joshua Ho. “Apple has integrated a mobile storage solution that I haven’t seen in any other device yet, and the results suggest that they’re ahead of just about every other OEM in the industry here by a significant amount.”
iPhone 6s battery life dropped off a bit from the iPhone 6 in initial tests, but AnandTech says it might actually do better after more extensive testing.
The GPU improvements are made possible by new 14mm process technology from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. More tests need to be run to see how the iPhone 6s truly stacks up to the competition but at first glance, it appears it might take a year before the competition catches up.
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
14 responses to “Early tests show iPhone 6s is nearly two times faster than rest of the industry”
Since it wasn’t in the list, I just ran Kraken in Firefox on my Note 5. Total time: 3,272. So yes, the 6S does in fact best it, but it certainly doesn’t blow the Note 5 away by a lot… but, a win’s a win so kudos to Apple (Interestingly, the time in Chrome was quite a bit worse… I actually expected it to beat Firefox but that’s not what happened).
Nearly twice as fast is not “by a lot”? Yea ok.
The ‘thing’ with this is that the iPhone 6 beat the (or your) Note 5 as well…
Put in iOS with by far the fastest SoC and storage around vs that abortion of software called Touchwiz and the end result will look even worse for Samsung.
Buster. You are confused. You said:
“In some benchmarks, the iPhone 6s nearly tops the Surface Pro 3”
You should have said:
In some benchmarks, the iPhone 6s nearly equals the Surface Pro 3
Also. you said “iPhone 6s is nearly two times faster than rest of the industry”
This is incorrect. You should have said:
iPhone 6s is nearly 100% (1 time) faster than rest of the industry.
100% = 100/100 = 1. If it’s 100% it means it’s equal. 200% is 2x.
“100% faster than” equals “2 times the speed of.”
“2 times faster than” equals “3 times the speed of.”
1 time faster… lol
“100% faster than” equals “2 times the speed of.”
“2 times faster than” equals “3 times the speed of.”
Your illiteracy is not funny.
You’re confused on how to convert speech to mathematical formulas.
Twice as fast, two times faster, is 2x, i.e. 200% of the benchmark. If a car is going 50 and another 100, the second one is twice as fast as the first.
2x as fast = 100% faster: But rarely will it ever be stated that way because it’s misleading.
He meant the smartphone industry, the surface is a full pc inside a laptop, it uses an x86 processor while everything else uses ARM.
Math fail lol…
It looks like two super big cores are better than eight smaller cores.
They said “it will take a year for the competition to catch up” well, by then Apple will unveil the iPhone 7, and WHO knows what kind of crazy performance it will have?!