
The iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus started deliveries on Friday around the world in participating countries, and as people get their units, interesting videos have started to surface. Among some of the more interesting types of content we've seen have been a bend test video, as well as iFixit's detailed teardown of the device.
A new video, posted by YouTube user Mad Matt TV, shows a side-by-side speed test demonstration of the iPhone 6 Plus and the iPhone 6s Plus. The speed test demonstration includes many of the details you'd expect, such as proof of software type and device type, a boot-up test, application-launching tests, and more.
The videographer is sure to show us the "S" on the back of the iPhone 6s Plus, being that the new device now has the regulatory information stored in the iOS software rather than on the back of the device like the iPhone 6 Plus does. He then shows that both devices are running the latest firmware for the devices available, which is iOS 9.0.1, which was released first on Wednesday for non-iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus devices, and then a new iOS 9.0.1 with a different build number was launched yesterday for the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus specifically.
The testing shows that the iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 6s Plus take about the same amount of time boot up from a complete shut-down, but in terms of application launching speed, the iPhone 6s Plus' upgraded A9 CPU and 2GB of RAM are able to process and load applications much faster than the older iPhone 6 Plus with its A8 CPU and 1GB of RAM.
The CPU has more to do with the application-launching speed than the RAM does, but when the CPU is done loading all that data, the RAM is where it gets stored temporarily until the user needs to access it again. The iPhone 6s Plus has an advantage because it has more space for this temporary data than the iPhone 6 Plus does, and this means it can more quickly launch multiple applications subsequently without having to re-load applications because the memory just doesn't fill up like the older iPhone 6 Plus' does. But in the way Mad Matt tests his in this video, this information is mostly irrelevant since he closes out of each application after launching it.
Included in the testing was a Geekbench speed test, which showed that the iPhone 6 Plus' 1.40GHz A8 CPU scored a 1616 single core score and a 2901 multi-core score, which compares to the iPhone 6s Plus' 1.85Ghz A9 CPU, which scored a 2531 single core score and a 4417 multi-core score. What we see here is that the CPU speed increases are actually pretty extensive.
In a Speedtest.net network speed test, both devices scored about the same speed, but really it's an irrelevant test because the results of this test depend on the user's ISP more-so than the device itself.
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Source: Mad Matt TV
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