By Hubert Nguyen, Ubergizmo
iPhone 5S
Without much surprise but with plenty of expectations, Apple has unveiled the iPhone 5S to the world. The smartphone uses. This time, most rumors were exactly spot-on and overall it looks nearly identical to the iPhone 5. The noticeable external differences are the ring around the Home button and the dual-LED flash in the back and the updated “gold” color.
Of course, the inside is another story. Apple has updated the main chip from an A6 to an A7 custom processor designed by Apple. Apple points out that A7 uses a more modern 64-bit chip (vs. 32 previously), which can probably bring a few benefits right off the bat by executing more instructions per second and by having more internal registers (a 15% performance boost right there, in many situations).
Overall, Apple claims a 2X gain on both the CPU and GPU performance – this is higher than the 31% gain rumored before the launch. Keep in mind that in some benchmarks, even 200% of the iPhone 5 performance will end up being significantly lower than what Android phones can score. This is obviously speculative, since we’ll need to benchmark the actual phone under controlled conditions, but for the sake of discussion, let’s visualize it.
Read more of the preview by Hubert Nguyen of the Ubergizmo.
