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Re:iPhone 7 by xiaopanga on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:18PM (#12447159)
Do people play a lot of graphics intensive games on phones?
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Re:iPhone 7 by PacketPaul on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:28PM (#12447285)
I do and the battery only last an hour. We need bigger batteries. CPU speed is never the issue.
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Re:iPhone 7 by jonlucc on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:56PM (#12448192)
Naive question: do faster cores perform slower tasks with more efficiency? In other words, if a game uses 80% of the old processor, but only 50% of the new one, is there an impact on the battery life just by being a faster CPU?
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Re:iPhone 7 by smileysteve on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:41AM (#12451261)
Yes. Especially with multiple cores, gets more work done quicker and the core can shutdown. The core can also scale down where it is presumably more efficient.
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Re:iPhone 7 by sanswork on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:17PM (#12447793)
It is definitely becoming more common.
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