In an in-depth review written by Andrei Frumusanu for AnandTech, he has given a very detailed analysis of the performance of the A12 in the iPhone XS/XS Max. One of the more interesting findings is that he believes that the A12 improvements are close to 40% compared to Apple's claims of up to 15% performance boosts.
The article pointed out that Apple's marketing department actually underestimated the improvement, only came at 15%, but the performance of multiple workloads increased by about 40%, and in some cases even saw greater improvements. He mentioned that the performance of the A12 is quite close to the "Best desktop CPU", which makes people more convinced that Apple will use its own chips on the Mac as early as 2020.
On the GPU side, Apple's performance growth has also exceeded their promise. The new GPU looks like an iteration of last year's design, but the introduction of four cores and GPU memory compression takes the performance to the next level.
In addition, the iPhone XS/XS Max review also explored the camera and battery performance of the new flagship. For the camera, Apple has made some very solid overall improvements, the new sensor adds 50% light sensitivity, and it also allows the phone to capture finer detail in brighter conditions, and the Smart HDR functions as Apple promises.
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The article pointed out that Apple's marketing department actually underestimated the improvement, only came at 15%, but the performance of multiple workloads increased by about 40%, and in some cases even saw greater improvements. He mentioned that the performance of the A12 is quite close to the "Best desktop CPU", which makes people more convinced that Apple will use its own chips on the Mac as early as 2020.
Apple's marketing department was really underselling the improvements here by just quoting 15% - a lot of workloads will be seeing performance improvements I estimate to be around 40%, with even greater improvements in some corner-cases. Apple's CPU have gotten so performant now, that we're just margins off the best desktop CPUs; it will be interesting to see how the coming years evolve, and what this means for Apple's non-mobile products.
On the GPU side, Apple's performance growth has also exceeded their promise. The new GPU looks like an iteration of last year's design, but the introduction of four cores and GPU memory compression takes the performance to the next level.
In addition, the iPhone XS/XS Max review also explored the camera and battery performance of the new flagship. For the camera, Apple has made some very solid overall improvements, the new sensor adds 50% light sensitivity, and it also allows the phone to capture finer detail in brighter conditions, and the Smart HDR functions as Apple promises.
Image Via The Verge
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