With the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus now officially in customers’ hands after a record opening weekend of iPhone sales, today we get a look at various benchmark results for the devices compared to the competition from AnandTech. Ahead of the site’s full technical review of the new iPhones, today it posted several benchmark results showing the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus win out by just about every metric.
The site notes it noticed a 13% increase in performance in its SunSpider benchmark test for the new A8 chip, but also significant increases in GPU performance giving the new devices “a pretty solid lead over the competition for the iPhone 6/A8.” In addition, the site points out that Apple has actually been able to achieve quite impressive battery life results (pictured above) considering the hardware it’s included in the new iPhone 6 models:
Normally an 1810 mAh battery with 3.82V nominal voltage would be quite a poor performer, but the iPhone 6 is a step above just about every other Android smartphone on the market. The iPhone 6 Plus also has a strong showing, although not quite delivering outrageous levels of battery life the way the Ascend Mate 2 does.
You can check out all the results of the various benchmarks here. Tom’s Guide also put together some benchmark results comparing the new iPhones with the iPhone 5s and Samsung’s Galaxy S5 (click the gallery below for full size):
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WTF is an Ascend Mate 2? I hate benchmark tests.
No idea.. likely an Asian model phone we don’t see normally.
I just went to the website. Apparently it is a 6.1″ Phablet that is available here, but it is pretty much only bought from the manufacturer. Not bad at $299 off contract.
It would the the phone that finished last in nearly every single test except battery life. Interestingly, the NVidia Shield Tablet beat the iPhone on most performance tests, but wasn’t even listed on the battery life.
Geez that Galaxy S 5 is dreadful….no wonder they used to cheat on their benchmark tests.
I thought those Android smartphones were supposed to be so fast with their over-clocked quad-core processors and 3 GB of system RAM as if consumers are supposed to give a damn about such ridiculous specs. It just excites the Droid tech-heads who salivate over specs and bragging rights. I don’t know why a smartphone has to be a spec-demon just to make phone calls and do some texting. As long as the smartphone does what it’s needed to do that should be good enough for the average consumer. Seriously, what normal consumer goes around bragging that their smartphone is faster than someone else’s smartphone by some miniscule amount.
I wanted the 6+ but I was aware that the bigger screen & same hardware specs would have cut down its graphics performance. I had seen some geekbench tests but it was stated that they were independent from the display resolution (and in fact the results were/are almost identical), but now that the graphics test results are out.. I am no longer sure to buy the 6+. Its average frame rate is MUCH lower than the 6’s..!
For those specwhores its all about numbers but when you compare the phone to the last gen most people wont notice any difference. Every reviewer seems to be afraid to touch on the topic of charge time. Im waiting on anandtech’s full review. I did a test from 20% to 100% on my 6+ and it took 3hrs and 20mins. For people who travel or any looking for a 15min or 30min charge it looks like you wont be getting much power. iphone has one of the worst charge rate and apple doesnt seem to do anything about it.
I find that it charges much faster using an iPad charger.
I’m not surprised. If you use the 10 W or 12 W iPad charger to charge the iPhone 6, the recharge times should be surprisingly quick.
Gee, Herb, where’s your usual Samesung troll?
Not much to add, really.
The commenters here have already expressed that the tests are not that meaningful.
I noticed the iphone was not carrier specific while the others were. That’s pretty interesting.
But the obvious thing is the phenomenal Samsung Galaxy S5 is nearly a year old. So the tests are comparing a new model with an old one. That’s indesputable.
It also means that use Android customers have been using the iPhones “new” features for a very long time.
How are you all getting used to them?
How is it a year old? It is the flagship Galaxy S model for the year 2014 and will remain so until the April of Next year. Those who want the Galaxy S family have only the S5 to purchase (Note family is different) until next year, just as the iPhone buyers only had the iPhone 5s/5c as new phones until the 6 and 6+ went on sale.
Oh course, five months is “almost a year”. Please, if you stopped exaggerating your argument would actually be somewhat good.
Oh, and like Scamsung didn’t use the “older” iPhone 5S at the time of the SGS5’s launch to laud its superiority? GTFO asshole.
Now watch the Fandroids and Samsung trolls move the goal posts and cry “benchmarks don’t matter”, or something else to avoid ever having to admit their anti-Apple arguments have been completely baseless.
Stop it, you’ll make us cry.
Wow, and this performance on one third of the RAM, two thirds of the battery capacity and half the number of cores of the top green robot beasties lined up against the divine fruit machines!!!
The advantages of owning as much as possible of the eco-system are self-evident – optimisation across several hardware, software and firmware parameters tweaks the best of class performance for a premium user experience.
I predict a riot of refugees fleeing into the Walled Orchard :-)
Haha. How does that taste you Android dopes!?
The Galaxies outscoring the Ones? Ha, you’re funny!
if the iphone6 has a total of 1million pixels, and the 6plus has a total of 2million pixels.. How do both phones score neck and neck on GFX benchmarks if they both use the exact same (Hexa-core) gpu.
shouldn’t the iphone6 score 2x higher fps in video benchmarks?
I am wondering if this is another one of apples typical moves where they disable some GPU cores on the smaller model like they did between the iphone5 and the ipad4. (Iphone5 had one of the four cores disabled) but apple never felt like telling anyone that slight detail.
The GPU tests where they score the same are OFFscreen tests. Meaning that the test is the same for every phone. ONscreen tests are a different matter though, when it’s onscreen (the ones that matter considering you’ll be playing on your phone, not someone elses..), screen resolution does make quite the difference, obviously, on performance.
I own the iPhone 6, the Galaxy Alpha and have compared to a friends Z3 Compact. And the iPhone 6 screen is the best by quite alot, in my opinion.
I do find it amazing that Apple can pack this much power, into such a nice screen (even though not uber high res) with such a weak battery, and still get good battery life!
Talk about a optimized OS, for starters.
The battery life really is better than the 5s. And as always, draws basically nothing while on standby. drew 1% last night for me.
Highly recommend all three phones i mentioned above though!
Hmm. Apparently no one here read the comments about the Samsung displays kicking the iphone ‘ s brand spanking new display.
Edison can be forgiven for not reading it. It’s hard to read when your rectum is around your neck.
Clutching. At. Straws.
Haha. I love your comments, desperation personified.
My iPhone 6+ is slower than my 5S?? WTF?? Not in real-world usage it’s not.
Apple OS STILL lags behind Samsung, according to media that covers Apple’s own home!
Classic. Sheep.
http://www.mercurynews.com/troy-wolverton/ci_26583952/wolverton-apple-ios-8s-great-update-but-still
This is a performance article. And Samsung still lags Apple in performance.
Keep going though you’re fun to watch.
Well i had always been atracted by the iphone GPU a few years ago, but lately not really.
Its cool that they have 64bit cpus, and its cool they finally have a larger screen and a new design.
Its really a great phone overall but… i cant stand the IOS restrictions and itunes crap.
And regarding the GPU its not something to brag about, taking in account the price, i mean, my 300€ nexus 5 (with the “old” snapdragon 800) in 3dMark gets already 16k in icestorm unlimited and my nvidia shield tablet (Tegra K1 wich is a real beast) gets 32k.
Benchmarks are not everything, i know but, they give you a good glance of the device performance, and tbh im not really impressed with this A8 chip.
The Tegra K1 32bits smokes everything atm, and the upcoming tegra k1 (64bit) will be a real monster in the nexus tablet.
Its kinda strange, that they say its impressive batterylife? I never heard any review that says it has such a good battery. Reviewers says that the iPhone 6 plus do have much better battery over the iPhone 6, but when it comes to battery its actually Sony Xperia Z3 that is the best.
How can some one honestly take this test seriously?
Two biggest opponents is not included in the test. Alpha and Z3. They are on the market as well.
I am a Sony freak and think that Sony have lost it due to the size of the phone. But Alpha and i6 is
perfect when it comes to size. Guess my next will be an Alpha though.