Early Benchmarks: iPad > iPhone 4 > iPhone 3GS

[Marcus Yam]

The giant iPhone is still the fastest one.

Early Benchmarks: iPad > iPhone 4 > iPhone 3GS : Read more

 

[mlopinto2k1]

Must be hard up for page hits!

 

[kartu]

[citation][nom]mlopinto2k1[/nom]Must be hard up for page hits![/citation]
Indeed. But at least thez don't FUD for a while.

 

[brianmoz]

If you guys need help testing any of those things just let me know and I'll send you my address...what can I say I woke up feeling like a team player today.

 

[kawininjazx]

The iPhone 4 must be pretty fast then. When I went from the 3G to the 3GS I could not believe how much faster is was.

 

[ubergeek]

So when does the iPod touch 4 come out with this processor? Oh wait, it already has as the iPad....

 

[zoemayne]

So it may be 750Mhz just makes my 1GHz android phone all the better

 

[theuerkorn]

I was wondering about speed for the same reasons. Apple likes to play with numbers on the "Retina Display" as that makes for effective marketing, but obviously a lower GHz number (albeit equally meaningless on different OS) wouldn't make people "ooh and aah". Thanks for the post, helps putting things into perspective.

 

[chickenhoagie]

for a phone to be faster than a tablet, would be extremely impressive..so i'm very satisfied on how this turns out

 

[vant]

[citation][nom]zoemayne[/nom]So it may be 750Mhz just makes my 1GHz android phone all the better[/citation]
As a TG reader, you should know very well that clock speed is not the only deciding factor.

 

[pocketdrummer]

"It's nice little ARM and PowerVR combo chip that works quite well the iOS."

What?

 

[Maziar]

to pocketdrummer
ARM is the CPU(A4 chip) and PowerVR SGX is the Graphic chip of iPhone 4.

 

[tokenz]

[citation][nom]Maziar[/nom]to pocketdrummer ARM is the CPU(A4 chip) and PowerVR SGX is the Graphic chip of iPhone 4.[citation][nom]pocketdrummer[/nom]"It's nice little ARM and PowerVR combo chip that works quite well the iOS."What?[/citation]

I think he knows that, and was just commenting on the grammer that was used in the sentence.

 

[darknate]

it could be the same speed as the 3gs since it has a newer, more efficient processor and more ram.

 

[abswindows7]

It's faster ! DUHHH Why would they make it slower ? Good news !!!!

 

[Pyroflea]

Since when are new products faster?

 

[freename]

Do they include "ability to make calls" in their bench?

 

[Guest]

I suppose a more accurate title just doesn't fit into the character limit for TH's articles. Here is what it should have been:

HTC Evo > HTC Incredible > Droid > cake > smoke signals > Morse Code > iPad > iPhone 4 > iPhone 3GS > tin cans connected by string

 

[rexoverbey]

I wouldn't consider those benchmarks all that accurate. Also considering that the iPad has half the ram of the iPhone 4, and both use the same A4 Processor (clock speed unknown), and same PowerVR SGX GPU (rendering less pixels on the iPhone).

 

[matt87_50]

[citation][nom]vant[/nom]As a TG reader, you should know very well that clock speed is not the only deciding factor.[/citation]

it does if thats the only difference. now while apple has tweaked the chip, including cpu cache and memory bandwidth, ALL these smart phones use pretty much exactly the same gpu and cpu combo.

question: WHAT IS GAME PERFORMANCE LIKE? I remember a little something from the PC world... umm... oh yeah, when you take the same GPU,(its the same as the one in the 3GS) and quadrupedal the number of pixels it has to paint, you better have one hell of an overclock up your sleeves!

 

[matt87_50]

also, wtf is with the iphone 3GS in that test only having 10% battery life?? for all we know it could be throttling the cpu to save power...

 

[dEAne]

The way you use it also counts not just the clock speed.

 

[shardey]

The difference between other phones and the iPhone is that the a4 has the cpu and gpu on one chip. Making it more efficient and also giving it the potential to run faster.