The iPhone 5's A6 is a dual-core CPU and tri-core GPU

3. PhoneArenaUser posted on 21 Sep 2012, 20:11 2 3

"Inside the Apple iPhone 5: Estimated Bill of Materials Costings, Teardown Images, A6 Processor Analysis"

http://ubmtechinsights.com/apple-iphone-5/

Costings:
http://ubmtechinsights.com/uploadedImages/Public_Website/Content_-_Primary/Teardowns/2012/iPhone_5_Teardown/iPhone5-BOM-comparison.JPG

5. StephenGalop posted on 21 Sep 2012, 20:25 4 3

iDont care, Intel FTW!!!

7. PhoneArenaUser posted on 21 Sep 2012, 20:35 2 5

I saw what you wrote and gave you a +1 :)
In my comment #3 I just posted more info related to this article.

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15. 305Bucko posted on 21 Sep 2012, 22:29 2 1

nobody cares... your're just taking up space and making this page take longer to load ;)

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23. PhoneArenaUser posted on 22 Sep 2012, 07:52 1 1

I care, I'm interested in technologies, does phonearena.com not about them ? :(

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21. remixfa posted on 22 Sep 2012, 03:56 1 0

Yup, that's about right.. not even $170 in parts on the new phone. Tach on another 20-60 per unit for pay/utilities ect and that's the cost of the phone... around $250ish per unit. They sell it for $600+ to carriers and make gargantuan profits.

22. cepcamba posted on 22 Sep 2012, 05:23 0 0

And that's just the phone you computed. What about all those iPhone exclusive accessories?

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24. PhoneArenaUser posted on 22 Sep 2012, 07:56 1 1

Parts + Manufacturing + Design + Marketing + Logistics + Packing + Profit = Device Price

But yes, I agree iPhone 5 is overpriced as hell.

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27. Berzerk000 posted on 22 Sep 2012, 13:15 1 0

That's Apple. Wasn't the cost for parts for the Nexus 7 around $180? And Google is selling it for $200...

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6. abhishek48 posted on 21 Sep 2012, 20:34 2 2

See glbenchmark.com iphone 5 has grt graphic performance.. just second to snapdragon s4 aderano 320

9. hung2900 posted on 21 Sep 2012, 20:43 2 5

GLBenchmark 2.1 Egypt Classic - Offscreen (1080p) :

iPhone 5: 90.7 fps
Xiao Mi2: 77.8 fps

12. PhoneArenaUser posted on 21 Sep 2012, 21:09 1 2

We can't compare hardware performance since both devices uses different OS. Benchmarks can't directly test hardware because benchmarks runs on OS.

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14. hung2900 posted on 21 Sep 2012, 21:29 1 0

I know it's not exactly relevant between benchmakr and CPU/GPU raw strength. I just answered to @abhishek48 that about benchmark iPhone 5 is still better than a S4 Pro powered phone.

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8. PhoneArenaUser posted on 21 Sep 2012, 20:41 4 4

Seems that you don't get the purpose of it. ;)

10. wendygarett (limited) 6 days ago posted on 21 Sep 2012, 20:44 4 5

Just wanna know how much marketing gimmicks that Apple wanna trick us :)
Is that the real purpose?

11. PhoneArenaUser posted on 21 Sep 2012, 21:04 2 1

Purpose is to know much as possible about how good or bad is build this device, to know what components were used in current device and by what manufacturers was they made in this case we approximately can know what is "material" cost of each part and whole device prime cost. :)

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25. medicci37 posted on 22 Sep 2012, 10:15 3 0

@ Wendy Last week u kept saying how awesome the iphone is. I'm confused ?

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26. PhoneArenaUser posted on 22 Sep 2012, 10:30 1 0

I also have noticed that long time ago, he is flustered. :)

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18. whysoserious posted on 21 Sep 2012, 23:41 1 0

Lol! Possible. Maybe the glass coating is a magnifying glass or some sort.

20. Ivan6479 posted on 22 Sep 2012, 01:15 0 0

Now this is funny!! Sammy would know seeing how they do make a few of the parts that goes into the device. lol

17. dmn666 posted on 21 Sep 2012, 23:06 0 0

A6 is designed by Apple - Samsung is the foundry that manufactured A6 - I think that's what writer intended to mean. 'Made' is a misleading term though. Snapdragons are designed by Qualcomm - manufactured by foundries like TSMC, UMC. Yet it's a Qualcomm chip just like A6 is an apple chip. Whoever designs a chip is actually its maker.

28. Berzerk000 posted on 22 Sep 2012, 13:19 0 0

Exactly. Apple markets the crap out of specs, as long as they're better or on par with the competition.

Main example; the new iPad. They milked the absolute living hell out of the quad-core graphics. Now that they released something that's already been outdone, they just marketed the optimizations of the OS.

Apple mind tricks.