The A6X is a chip not utilized in any iPhone and it has a huge GPU upgrade that makes it capable of running like that.
Pretty sure the A6X is competitive with A7 too, but I wouldn't want A7 running 1080p
Why do you say that?But 1gb ram will prevent more recent 7th gen console ports.No way Bioshock Infinite would work on 1gb ram but it could work in Android flagships like Xperia Z3 and S5 as they have much more Ram.
No way Bioshock Infinite would work on 1gb ram
Pretty boring upgrade from a technical perspective. ~16% CPU performance bump (partially from higher clocks) + <20% GPU performance bump (according to the Basemark/3DMark numbers). I wonder if we'll ever see a A6->A7 performance increase again. As much as I like the iOS ecosystem the Exynos 5433-based Note 4 with QHD screen and 3/4GB RAM is looking more tempting.
Rubbish. The PS3 only has 256MB system RAM (and 256MB VRAM), and it handles Binfinite just fine.
But iOS has no swap file.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the terminology/technology here, but iOS just asks apps to give up memory, or else it just takes it. It doesn't page it out to swap, because there is no swap file in the first place.
Although Mac OS X supports a backing store, iOS does not. In iPhone applications, read-only data that is already on the disk (such as code pages) is simply removed from memory and reloaded from disk as needed. Writable data is never removed from memory by the operating system. Instead, if the amount of free memory drops below a certain threshold, the system asks the running applications to free up memory voluntarily to make room for new data. Applications that fail to free up enough memory are terminated.
Debatable. Didn't it run at 1024x600 and have a frame rate around 30?
But 1gb ram will prevent more recent 7th gen console ports.No way Bioshock Infinite would work on 1gb ram but it could work in Android flagships like Xperia Z3 and S5 as they have much more Ram.
Where does it say that?Apparently the 6+ renders everything at 2208 × 1242
Debatable. Didn't it run at 1024x600 and have a frame rate around 30?
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I don't understand that logic. It would be harder to include more components in a lower margin product. It's easier to do that with higher margin products.I wonder if the iPad will have an A8X along with 2GB of RAM. They have more thermal headroom in an iPad, and iPad is typically much lower margin anyway, so might as well spring for the 2GB.
Also, it would give iPhone users a reason to buy an iPad...something that may be difficult to achieve given the iPhone 6+.
That rumour is dubious.According to Macrumors, iPad Air 2 might have 2GB of RAM to deal with a new split screen feature.
I don't understand that logic. It would be harder to include more components in a lower margin product. It's easier to do that with higher margin products.
With a lower margin product, the manufacturer might be more inclined to raise the price to compensate, if they upsize the components.
That rumour is dubious.
The most "amazing" thing is that those iFanboys have no problem with paying 2X as much just to get a fancy Apple logo on their phone. The fact that it has only 1GB of RAM pales in comparison.First, iPhone is a much larger contributor to Apple's revenue and, more importantly, profit base. So margin decreases are to be avoided if at all possible. Apple has shown that people will trip over themselves to buy the latest iPhone even with "just" 1GB of RAM.
I seriously question the impact on margins of including a further 1GB of RAM, we're talking about ~5% of the BOM, it wouldn't be lowering the margin much at all, certainly not enough to hurt their profit line.
This argument again.The most "amazing" thing is that those iFanboys have no problem with paying 2X as much just to get a fancy Apple logo on their phone. The fact that it has only 1GB of RAM pales in comparison.
Where does it say that?
The Plus, though, works differently. Physically, it is a 1920 × 1080 display with 401 pixels-per-inch. Virtually, however, it appears to apps as a 2208 × 1242 display with 463 pixels-per-inch. Those latter numbers should sound familiar to regular readers. The iPhone Plus automatically scales the 2208 × 1242 interface to fit the 1920 × 1080 display. This on-the-fly downsampling sounds crazy it sounds like something that might be slow, and that might lead to fuzziness on screen with small text or fine lines. In practice, it just works. Text and fine lines appear sharper on the 6 Plus than on the regular 6 (or any other iPhone with a 326 PPI display, like the 5s). 401 pixels per inch is high enough that things still look great even if theyre not pixel-perfect. I was deeply skeptical of this on-the-fly downsampling when I heard about it, but having used it for a week, Im sold.
(When you take a screenshot on the iPhone 6 Plus, you get a 2208 × 1242 image you get a screenshot of what the app thinks it is displaying, not a screenshot of the actual pixels on screen. If you really do care about pixel-level precision, Im not sure how you can tell what is being rendered on screen other than to examine the actual iPhone display using an optical loupe.)
According to Macrumors, iPad Air 2 might have 2GB of RAM to deal with a new split screen feature.
Yep. Gruber theorized before the iPhone 6+ came out that it would have to have a 2208x1242 screen.
Not necessarily.A8 is going to work fine at 1080p, but I think Apple will have to make a much larger improvement in GPU specifically with the 6S.
Surface Pro 3 is in a totally different class of CPU power utilization. Most people want their phones to last longer than 2 hours a day.I doubt it. I'm not sure why a phone needs to be quad core when surface pro 3 is dual core, and is in another league performance wise.