When do we find out what the CPU is clocked at?

[joshwithachance]

I want to know if we have a true 1Ghz processor or not >.<

 

[beamer8912]

Considering how much slower the iPhone 4 benchmarks are, the A4 is most likely underclocked.

 

[jacollins]

Agreed. There's a severe lack of info on the CPU speed. That tells me that it isn't 1Ghz. I think there were a lot of assumptions made on it because of the iPad.

 

[joshwithachance]

I feel like it isn't 1Ghz as well, but it's ridiculous that we STILL don't know what it actually is...

 

[nippyjun]

It doesn't seem much faster then a 3gs so my guess would be 600mhz like in the 3gs.

 

[drjsway]

We find out when the iPad gets iOS 4 and the two can be benchmarked with the same OS. Or if someone manages to install iOS 3 on the iPhone 4.

 

[Riemann Zeta]

I would bet it uses dynamic frequency adjustment based upon load, with a max speed of ~750-800MHz.

 

[Small White Car]

I would bet it uses dynamic frequency adjustment based upon load, with a max speed of ~750-800MHz.

I was JUST gonna say that. It would explain why we don't know the exact answer...people keep getting different results at different points because it keeps changing on them.

 

[rjenovai]

I want to know if we have a true 1Ghz processor or not >.<

Why? Will knowing the CPU speed make the phone any better or worse?

 

[jacollins]

Why? Will knowing the CPU speed make the phone any better or worse?

He wants to have a techspecgasm.

 

[scaredpoet]

Why? Will knowing the CPU speed make the phone any better or worse?

It all boils down to certain people like to be able to rattle off a spec sheet to others. It improves their self-esteem, apparently, to be able to show that their hunk of silicon, metal and glass has a higher set of numbers than someone else's hunk of silicon, metal and glass.

 

[iMacDragon]

I'd say it's been fairly conclusively deduced to be 800mhz

 

[darkhunter139]

When the iPhone 5 comes out and apple brags about how much faster the processor is then the old one.

 

[asleep]

Anandtech says 750MHz.

 

[iMacDragon]

Actually anandtech says "CPU Apple A4 @ ~800MH" on the listing table.

 

[redman042]

I found Apple literature buried on their website that says it's clocked at "ludicrous speed".

 

[dukebound85]

It doesn't seem much faster then a 3gs so my guess would be 600mhz like in the 3gs.

Keep in mind that the ip4 has to push out 4x as many pixels also

 

[goobot]

Probaly when there is a jailbreak and we can get into stuff llke that.

 

[barefeats]

It's odd because when I run Sunspider Javascript Benchmark, the iPad is only 1% faster overall than the iPhone 4. And when I ran 3D Benchmark, the iPad was only 2% faster than the iPhone 4.

If the iPad version of Geekbench gets released, we can tell a lot from that.

FYI, the iPhone 4 runs Sunspider Javascript Benchmark 27% faster than the 1GHz EVO.

 

[WardC]

I can see a new thread coming: "Overclocking your A4 to 2GHz - teardown instructions!"

 

[michaelz]

You should get an android phone if you so care about CPU clocked...