How Much Faster is the iPhone 7 versus 6 and 6s?

Originally posted September 16th, 2016 by rob-ART morgan, mad scientist

Apple claims that the iPhone 7 is 2x to 3x faster than the iPhone 6 and as much as 50% faster than the iPhone 6s. We ran various benchmarks to see.

Geekbench 4 - Combined Integer, Floating Point, and Memory Performance test.

JetStream
This is JavaScript benchmark suite focused on the most advanced web applications.

GFXBench Metal - Manhattan 1440p Offscreen

GFXBench Metal - T-Rex 1080p Offscreen

Performance Test Storage READ

Performance Test Storage WRITE

SUMMARY
The iPhone 7 is from 36% to 43% faster than the iPhone 6s running CPU intensive tests such as Geekbench and JetStream. And it is 2.2 to 2.6 times faster than the iPhone 6 running CPU intensive tests.

As for GPU intensive Metal benchmarks, the iPhone 7 is as much as 44% faster than the iPhone 6s and an as much as 5.3 times faster than the iPhone 6.

In the Storage test, the iPhone 7 is 18%-19% faster than the iPhone 6s and 2.5 to 4.4 times faster than the iPhone 6.

BIG MAHALO to Local Mad Scientist, Trevor, for providing the iPhone 6 Plus test results.

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