Fair enough, but like I said I have an older smartphone that’s plenty fast enough for anything I need. Subjective, granted.
How “fast” do folks need in real life? Do people spend all their time doing benchmark tests on their phones? Will they have a mental meltdown over a few milliseconds give or take?
The point being, I guess, that most all of these contraptions are so capable these days that the last tenth of a percent in performance won’t make a perceptible difference to most users. And spending hundreds of $$$ for one model over the other doesn’t really buy you much more than benchmark bragging rights. JMHO, YMMV.
The point in benchmarks is that here we have a 1 year old phone, that is outperforming the latest flagship from their #1 competitor.
In a month, the iPhone 7 will be released with the new A10 chip. If normal performance improvements follow, then the iPhone 7 should show about a 25% improvement over the iPhone 6s.
And the competition hasn’t caught up to last year’s model.
This is what happens when you use General Purpose processors and undefined chipsets running an Open Source OS and go head to head against a custom ARM processor coupled with custom iOS. You get spanked.