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iPhone 4 is Faster than 3GS and Slower than iPad in Early Benchmarks

claus1225 said:
how can it be slower than ipad if it has twice the memory?
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It depends. iPhone has slower processor but more memory. It might be faster than iPad on memory intensive applications (if there is any sort of memory virtualization involved) but other than that iPad should be faster.
 
lilo777 said:
It depends. iPhone has slower processor but more memory. It might be faster than iPad on memory intensive applications (if there is any sort of memory virtualization involved) but other than that iPad should be faster.
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could be faster NAND Flash memory as well...
 
This is funny. People were upset that the iPad didn't have as much memory as iPhone 4. Now people are upset that the iPad still faster than the iPhone 4. Just get both, get stuff done and be happy people.
 
okay

I am an iPhone and iPad user, to be honest I am glad my iPad is faster under "these conditions". I would prefer them to be the same, but I would have been annoyed if the iPhone was way faster being the price and all (of course I am talking about contract pricing).
 
coldsweat said:
My 3G score is a whopping 142

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Thanks a lot! Can't wait to upgrade!! :)
 
This is good to hear!

I don't really care too much about the iPhone and I was thinking about picking up an iPad eventually, but I would not have bought one out of principle if it was slower than the new iPhone.
 
compiler

I was wondering--does anyone know if these benchmark apps were compiled with the LLVM compiler?
 
my benchmarks also say about 80%

I have an independent set of micro-benchmarks, both integer and floating-point intensive (and stuff that can't go in the App store, such as language interpreters). They all take in the range of 20 to 30% longer to run on my iPhone 4 than on my iPad (wifi).

That still puts my iPhone 4's performance in between my old Beige G3/266 Mac and iBook G3/800, in performance, for everything except double-precision floating point number crunching.

ymmv.
 
In addition to GeekBench, I used SunSpider Javascript Benchmark, 3D Benchmark, and SpeedTest.net to compare the iPhone 3GS to the iPhone 4:
http://www.barefeats.com/iph3v4.html

Geekbench does not run on the iPad but I did include results for SunSpider and 3D Benchmark in the "bonus" section.
 
firewood said:
I have an independent set of micro-benchmarks, both integer and floating-point intensive (and stuff that can't go in the App store, such as language interpreters). They all take in the range of 20 to 30% longer to run on my iPhone 4 than on my iPad (wifi).

That still puts my iPhone 4's performance in between my old Beige G3/266 Mac and iBook G3/800, in performance, for everything except double-precision floating point number crunching.

ymmv.
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What type of processing intensive job do you do on the iphone 4? The iPhone 4 to me is just a handheld. Things you need like guides, research while in a store, GPS to where you need to go. I leave all that processing intensive job related activity to the PC. My 4.4ghz i7 930 with Intel SSD HD should be able to get the job done hours faster.

I ran the Geekbench 2 bench on my iPhone 4 and it's 3,1 not 2,1. I think the heading should of said iOS 4 not iPhone 4. Mine scored 364 with 22% battery life. I ran it again with 20% battery life and scored around 340. I think the performance gets a bit slower to save battery life.
 
It's not a really fair test as the battery is 100% and charging and 10% on the other. And battery certainly does make a difference to me on performance when using my iPad or iPhone.
 
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