First Apple iPhone 6 Benchmarks Appear on Basemark

Are you interested in seeing the very first Basemark X benchmark results that Rightware has received for the Apple iPhone 6. It appears a handful of the Apple A8 dual-core 1.4 GHz Cyclone SoC powered devices have been benchmarks and the results uploaded.

The A8 SoC is built on TSMC’s 20nm processor and contains around two billion transistors. The A8 SoC will, according to Apple, be about 25% faster than its predecessor in CPU tasks and 50% faster for GPU intensive applications and games. These are some very nice performance gains on paper, but in the Basemark X benchmark it scores 21,204 versus the Apple iPhone 5s with the A7 SoC that scores 20,255. This is a modest 4.7% improvement and it isn’t as big of a performance improvement as many were expecting. The A8 is supposed to be 25% faster on the CPU side and reportedly 50% more power efficient than the A7. There were only eight benchmark runs submitted, so maybe they were off or using early software builds?