Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/17/apple_iphone_5_tops_benchmark_chart/
iPhone 5 tops benchmark chart
Seemingly beats phones, tablets
Posted in Phones, 17th September 2012 10:32 GMT
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Apple's upcoming iPhone 5 [1] is one of the fastest ARM devices out there, beating even the Asus-made Google Nexus 7, if benchmark data posted online are to be believed.
An entry in the Geekbench database spotted this weekend - the figures were uploaded yesterday - shows the new handset clocking up a score of 1601. The readout indicates a dual-core ARMv7 CPU running at 1GHz [2] and equipped with 1GB of memory.
Compare that to the Nexus 7's score of 1591 and the Asus Transformer Prime TF201's 1497, and the iPhone 5 result, if genuine, shows the handset beating tablets.
That's no surprise, perhaps. Samsung's stock Galaxy S III does too. But its score, 1560, is still behind that of the purported iPhone 5 result. Run Jelly Bean on the S III and it retakes the lead, however, with a suspiciously spectacular 1781. An extra 221 points with a new OS? Well, possibly.
It's interesting to note too that all these devices contain quad-core processors. Apple's A6, however, seems to be a dual-core part, though there's not yet official confirmation of this, or that it's Apple's first custom ARM core [3], as Anandtech reckons.
Based on Apple's own pictures of the A6, and the codenumbers printed on the chip package, iFixit.com and Macrumors have jointly confirmed that the Samsung-made part does indeed contain 1GB of LPDDR 2 Ram [4].
Of course, that doesn't mean the iPhone 5 Geekbench data is real. ®