iPhone 5, a 10-month-old smartphone, was compared by the Which? with smartphones recently launched on the market by terminal manufacturers Android si BlackBerry. Geekbench was used for comparison and the score obtained by the smartphones was used to position the devices, the terminal iPhone 5 of those in Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), having the worst performances. HTC One si Samsung Galaxy S4 were the devices with the best performances, iPhone 5 having in front of him BlackBerry Z10 si Samsung Galaxy Note 2.
- Samsung Galaxy S4 - 3188
- HTC One – 2798
- Sony Xperia Z – 2173
- Google Nexus 4 – 2134
- Samsung Galaxy Note 2 – 1950
- BlackBerry Z10 – 1698
- Apple iPhone 5 16GB – 1664
If you look at the scores, which represent only the processor power without taking into account the capabilities of the graphics chips, you will say that the Samsung Galaxy S4 is 2 times faster than the iPhone 5. Having 2 times more cores, the HTC One and The Samsung Galaxy S4 had normal results for such a benchmark, but we all know that the recently launched Samsung smartphone has problems with lag in use. Benchmarks of this kind do not present a real situation in terms of performance in everyday use, they show us how much processing power the hardware in the terminals has, but in the case of Android, unfortunately, the software makes it useless that processing power.
