Emulator performance test: iPhone 5S vs. LG G2

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It's quite remarkable that despite having just two cores and a gigabyte of RAM, the iPhone 5S was able to beat the quad-core LG G2 with 2GB of RAM, and other Android phones with high-end specs. Apple's tight integration of hardware and software as well as its vertically integrated approach helps it optimise in ways other manufacturers can't, due to lack of control over some parts of their smartphones. So even though Apple might not have the most RAM or the highest number of cores, you can be sure that iOS is fine-tuned to squeeze every bit of performance from the hardware on-board.