Earlier this afternoon, John Poole from PrimateLabs informed MacRumors that the first iPhone 5 was put to the test on Geekbench (a product of PrimateLabs, a well known and accredited benchmark tool).
The results of the “iPhone 5,2″ (the nomenclature used by Apple to differentiate devices) are both surprising and astonishing. In the test, it’s revealed that the iPhone 5 is equipped with a Dual-Core 1.02GHz ARMx7 processor and 1GB of RAM. However, shockingly, even with a Dual-Core processor, the new iPhone scores an incredible 1601 Geekbench score.
The average score for the iPhone 4S, predecessor to the iPhone 5, is 629 and the average score for the third-generation iPad is approximately 766. The numbers from the recent iPhone 5 Geekbench test certainly validate Apple’s claims of a “2x” increase in performance across the board. Moreover, as seen from the comparison chart below, these results place the iPhone 5 ahead of the averages for the newest Android-based devices with “superior” Quad-Core processors.
Also, the new A6-powered iPhone 5 is apparently clocked higher than the previously used A5-based iPhone 4S (1GHz versus 800MHz).
While Poole recognizes there’s a possibility that the results on Geekbench could be fake, he strongly believes that they’re legitimate. We’ll know soon enough when the iPhone 5 is officially released to the public this Friday, September 21st. Stay tuned for our own series of tests and iPhone 5 comparisons.
