According to preliminary benchmark tests conducted by AnandTech, Apple’s new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus trounces the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge and Galaxy S6 Edge+ in almost every single speed category possible.
In fact, the only thing that can even compete with Apple’s new A9 processor is Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3, which is essentially a desktop computer.
“Overall, NAND performance is impressive, especially in sequential cases,” Joshua Ho of AnandTech wrote. “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.
Cult of Mac attributes the quickness of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus to Apple’s engineering chops, saying that Apple converted the Macbook’s solid state drive (SSD) storage controller to work in miniature for a smartphone, meaning that the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus now access their SSD unlike how any other smartphones access their SSD.
AnandTech has a more in-depth explanation of how Apple managed to achieve this with the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, with lots of chart-y goodness.
“The GPU improvements are enormous,” Ho explained on AnandTech, “and while we don’t have enough data to determine whether the iPhone 6s retains the same sustained GPU performance that we saw in the iPhone 6, the peak performance figures are impressive to say the least.”
So what else did the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s Plus best? Well in a sequential write test, the new iPhones did better than the iPad Air 2, the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, and the Motorola Moto X. On an overall GPU test, the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 did beat the iPhone 6s, but the iPhone came in second, beating the Xiaomi Mi Note Pro, the Google Nexus and the Galaxy S6 Edge.
In a GFXBench test, the iPhone 6s performed similarly, except that the iPad Air 2 beat it this time. Length of web browsing on Wi-FI, the Apple iPhone 6 Plus was actually the winner, by almost an hour over the new iPhone 6s Plus, so you can tell the battery has been downgraded significantly. However, the iPhone 6s Plus still managed to beat the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge.
When it come to loading web pages, Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 again won the day, but just barely, with the iPhone 6s coming in a close second. The iPad Air 2, the iPhone 6 Plus and the iPhone 5s all tagged behind, but all were ahead of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge.
