iPhone 5 Release Date: iPhone 4S Proven to be 7x Faster Than iPhone 4

By Vincent Funaro, Christian Post Reporter Tuesday, October 11, 2011

The iPhone 4S, Apple’s latest offering to the smartphone market has been proven to be over 7 times faster than its predecessor, the iPhone 4.

According to new Geekbench scores, the iPhone 4S’s custom-built A5 CPU is clocked at 800MHz, while its dual core processor gives it a 73 percent performance boost from the iPhone 4.

These figures were revealed on the AnandTech show where the iPhone 4S received an overall Geekbench score of 623, which out does the iPhone 4 significantly.

The iPhone 4S did prove to be slower than the iPad 2 in terms of processing speed.

The 1GHz A5 CPU found in the iPad 2 earned a score of 751.

The iPhone 4S also was found to be superior to its predecessors in terms of graphics processing capabilities.

The new model is seven times faster than the iPhone 4 in that department, earning a score of 73.1 while the iPhone 4 had an 11.2.

In another test, the iPhone 4S clocked a score of 122.7, while the iPhone 4 only had a 15.3.

The iPhone 4S also out-did its competition including, the Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Infuse 4G and the Motorola Droid Bionic in the overall GPU scores.

All of these Android smartphones feature processors with higher clock speeds which makes Apple’s higher score quite impressive.

The iPhone 4S was found to be slightly slower than the iPad 2.

Geekbench noted that by lowering the clock speed of the A5 from 1GHz in the iPad 2 to 800MHz in the iPhone 4S, Apple’s smartphone did receive a marginal loss in performance, but allows the device's battery to consume much less power.

“At a lower operating frequency than its Android competitors, Apple does have to exploit its strengths in software to avoid tangible performance penalties,” wrote authors Anand Lai Shimpi and Brian Klug. “Apple has traditionally done this very well in the past, so I don’t expect the loss of frequency to be a huge deal to the few who cross-shop iOS and Android.”